{"id":295,"date":"2011-08-28T23:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T06:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2011-08-28T23:44:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T06:44:57","slug":"the-brian-holland-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"THE BRIAN HOLLAND EXPERIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I got to kick it with music legend <a title=\"Holland-Dozier-Holland - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holland%E2%80%93Dozier%E2%80%93Holland\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Holland<\/a> while recording with <a title=\"Charlie Played Cello - Official Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlieplayedcello.com\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Played Cello<\/a>.\u00a0 Brian, his brother Edward &amp; writing partner Lamont Dozier where the powerhouse trio writing team who created that classic <a title=\"Motown - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motown\" target=\"_blank\">Motown<\/a> Sound in the 1960&#8217;s. With over 200 songs in their catalog, 130 were on the charts, 70 in the top 10 hit list, and 20 of them were number 1 hits.\u00a0 What an experience to be part of his creative process.\u00a0 He was effortlessly masterful and all the while having fun!\u00a0 Laughing and singing he would craft and shape the song together.\u00a0 He was giving, always praising the artist and guiding with a reassured comfort.\u00a0 Brian was honest with a witty sense of humor and willing to point to a positive character trait both in the music and the people around him.\u00a0 He is 70 years of age and without a doubt, I could see the happiness and joy that music still brings him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I got to kick it with music legend Brian Holland while recording with Charlie Played Cello.\u00a0 Brian, his brother Edward &amp; writing partner Lamont Dozier where the powerhouse trio writing team who created that classic Motown Sound in the 1960&#8217;s. With over 200 songs in their catalog, 130 were on the charts, 70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,7,3,4,8,5],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tommyvillafranca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}