One more thing......
As HDH was planning to leave Motown, Smokey tried to convince Brian Holland to stay and let Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier go. This was a shortsighted effort to salvage something to me.

From my observation it seems that Brian gets more credit as a "Genius" on the production side and Lamont is made to sound like someone who was kinda just....."there". Lamont played just as much of an equal role in the trio as Brian did and without him we wouldn't be singing along to many of the songs that we obviously can. Just because Brian could come up with a great melody doesn't mean that Lamont couldn't add something to it to make it a killer melody. Just because Brian could provide a musical backdrop doesn't mean that any songwriter can pen a tune at the same level that Eddie did to go with it. It was a unit,if you take something away it changes the axis. All the elements had to be there in order for it to work.

Lamont survived after leaving the Holland brothers, but Brian couldn't seem to keep the ship righted without him. The melodies remained strong, but Lamont's absence was still felt very strongly despite liking what you heard. He got stronger as time went on, the Holland's went back to Motown out of desperation which Lamont didn't need to do. I just feel that many didn't see what was obvious with these guys. I'm talking too much again....