People always talk about the "classic Motown sound" and inevitably lay the credit at the doorstep of either the names recording artists themselves or with the song writing geniuses that were Holland–Dozier–Holland. Both valid view points, but for that sound would never have existed with the 13 musicians known as The Funkk Brothers. Please step forward and take a bow Messrs Richard "Pistol" Allen, Jack Ashford, Bob Babbitt, Benny Benjamin, Eddie "Bongo" Brown, Johnny Griffith, Joe Hunter, James Jamerson, Uriel Jones, Joe Messina, Earl Van Dyke, Robert White and Eddie Willis