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Detroit-based producer Don Davis started out as a teenaged jazz guitarist who began doing recording sessions during Detroit's soul music heyday as soon as he graduated from Central High. He can be heard on sides on Ed Wingate's Golden World label and early sessions for Motown Records. Stax executive Al Bell brought Davis and singer Johnnie Taylor together in 1968 with the idea of trying to merge the Detroit sound and the Memphis sound into a cohesive whole. Davis overheard the song "Who's Making Love" written by Homer Banks, Bettye Crutcher, and Raymond Jackson one day in a studio. Several Stax producers had passed on the song due to its overt-for-its-time sexual content. Unencumbered by its upfront delivery, Davis produced and played guitar on the track with Stax musicians, guitarist Steve Cropper, Jackson, and Banks, singing the chorus with Taylor. The million-selling "Who's Making Love" parked at number one R&B for two weeks and peaked at number five pop on Billboard's charts in fal...