Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson wrote or co-wrote a long list of hits, including "Love Child," "I'm Living in Shame," "Up the Ladder to the Roof," and "Stone Love" (Supremes); "All I Need" (Temptations); "Still Water Love" and "It's the Way Nature Planned It" (Four Tops); "Boogie Down," "Keep on Truckin'," and "Darling Come Back Home" (Eddie Kendricks); "You Made Me So Very Happy" (Brenda Holloway, Blood, Sweat & Tears); "Chained" (Marvin Gaye); and "Whole Lot of Shakin' in My Heart" (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles).



Hal Davis introduced Wilson to Motown. One of his first Jobete cuts (Motown's publishing arm) was Stevie Wonder's "Castles in the Sand" (1964). His "I'm So Thankful" (1965) hit for the Ikettes, it had a similar beat and simplicity to the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go." Ike and Tina Turner cut Wilson's "Somebody, Somewhere Needs You," like the Ikettes' single, it was a Jobete copyright that wasn't originally released on a Motown label. He authored a whole slew of should-have-been-hits: "I Can't Turn Around" and "I'm Gonna Hold on Long as I Can" (the Marvelettes); "I've Got to Find It" (Brenda Holloway); and "Darling Come Back Home," "Honey Brown," "Hooked on Your Love," and "Son of Sagittarius" (Eddie Kendricks).

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