Lamont Dozier, who helped write and produce songs “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, died Monday ...
In the late ’50s, a little-known songwriter named Berry Gordy took $800 he scrounged together from family and a few paltry royalty payments to found Tamla Records—better known at Motown Records. Today ...
During the 1960s, in a country divided by racial strife, the music of Berry Gordy Jr.’s Motown Records helped bring people ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced "You Can't Hurry Love," "Heat Wave" and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown ...
If there was an American Music Hall of Fame, the Detroit-born group The Supremes would be in it, hailed as the Queens of Motown. As it is, the group is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in ...
The Beatles and The Supremes gave the world some of the most famous songs of the 1960s. Despite The Supremes’ popularity, Paul McCartney said the Motown girl group didn’t impress the Fab Four much. He ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supremes’ early career was filled with persistence. Before their eventual breakthrough, the group released several singles ...
Lamont Dozier, the Motown songwriter and producer who helped craft hits for artists such as the Supremes, the Four Tops, and the Isley Brothers, has died. He was 81. The news was confirmed by his son, ...
He was one of the architects of a genre. Motown legend Lamont Dozier — the singer-songwriter-producer mastermind behind iconic hits such as “Baby Love” and “Two Hearts” — has died at age 81. The music ...