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t1_j46cp8q wrote

Reply to comment by in TIL Creedence Clearwater Revival was only active for four years (1968-1972), with seven studio albums. They still hold the record for most singles (nine) to reach the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 without ever scoring a #1. by

For a major band in the 60s, this wasn’t all that uncommon a release schedule. The Beatles were doing two albums a year until they quit touring. Hell, over the same five-year period as CCR, the Supremes recorded fifteen studio albums. They really beat the hell out of successful acts when they could back then.

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t1_j46eo3r wrote

Did the Supremes also write all that music, or just record it?

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t1_j46evla wrote

The Motown in-house writers would have written most of it that wasn’t covers.

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t1_j470stv wrote

It should be noted that cover songs were much more relevant in the 60s. Lots of rock bands, even bands like the Beatles and Stones, covered a lot of blues songs in their early days.

The first CCR album was like 60% cover songs, which really wasn’t unusual for the time.

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t1_j47a40x wrote

Berry Gordy and Phil Spector would flog the same song over and over and over again until they didn’t think it could be profitable anymore.

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t1_j47e65f wrote

The Holland-Dozier-Holland team at Motown cranked out virtually all of the Supremes' catalog.

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