Detroit based soul production group, credited on labels as '
A Pied Piper Production'. When listed on labels as '
Pied Piper Productions' please consider using [l618909], as the recording was likely leased by the production company to another label for release.
Pied Piper Productions was a group of Detroit arrangers, writers, artists and musicians who unwittingly defined the Northern Soul style in their short 1965-1967 span. The main musicians –
Jack Ashford,
Mike Terry,
Joe Hunter and
Herbie Williams – were original members of Motown studio crew the Funk Brothers. Pied Piper’s own imprint was [l1002465], the earlier Detroit version as opposed to the later Chicago label (for the Chicago label see [l71299]).