La Mont Dozier, arguably part of the most successful songwriting team in the history of pop music since Motown Records, has died. He was 81 years old.
Dozier's death was revealed in a social media post by his son Lamont Dozier Jr. and singer Ray Parker Jr. (a longtime collaborator). The cause of death was not revealed.
"Dad, rest in heavenly peace." Dozier Jr.
Dozier, along with Eddie and Brian Holland, is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ( In 1990) and inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (2009).Where Did Our Love Goed,Baby Love,Dozens of chart hits, including The Supremes' 10 number one pop singles, including Camsey About Career emphasized by me,Stop.andin the name of love You can't rush love
Dodger, known as a master of melodic arrangements, is Motown's hit song {23. } Heat WaveandRun NowhereMartha and the Vandellas,This Old Heart of Mine, The Isley Brothers and Marvin GayeHow sweet (loved by you)
"Being a songwriter has a mysterious side that is difficult to explain," Dodger said in his memoirs of 2019. I am. , How sweet: Songwriter's thoughts on the mysteries of music, Motown, and muse"Sometimes I think a song should be one-way, but that song is intended. Something else entirely that will tell you if you are. Don't fight it. "
Holland-Dozier-Holland has a strong and ongoing relationship with Four Tops at Motown. I wrote a song of unrequited love and lost love to the aching vocals of Levi Stabs. Their compositionICan't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)andReach Out I'll Be There went to the top of the Billboard chart andIt's the same old song,In the shadow of loveandBernadetteland in the top five.
"I loved everything but me. Bernadettecaught the listener's ears and never let go of the Holland Dodger Holland genius. It will symbolize, "Motown founder Berry Gordy said in his 1994 autobiography. Music, Magic, Memories of Motown
Motown helped to "connect people": Dodger
with the 2020 CBCQIn an interview, Dodger explained that many of his songs, includingBernadette, made use of real-life experience and people.
"She was my first muse, you might say," Dozier said of the crushing girl of the schoolboy. "She was someone I remembered every time I sat down to write a song, and later I thought about how she and I felt, and I wanted to write another I was able to remind them of those feelings song,I'm thinking about Bernadette. "
Holland-Dozier-Holland is more than Gordy couldn't offer. Eventually moved from Motown in the late 1960s in search of autonomy. They formed Invictus Records and continued to place songs on R&B and pop charts, highlighted by Freda Payne'sBand of GoldandGiveMe Just a Little MoreTime. Chairman of the board of directors.
Dozier was born on June 16, 1941 in Detroit. Detroit's black population tripled between 1940 and 1960, and Dozier was part of a church choir, a high school talent contest, and a wave of emerging talent sung on the streets. corner.
As a teenager, Rowling's group Romeos cut the music of Atco Records, and Rowling himself (as Lamont Anthony) was a Motown rubric. I sang a few songs under. He formed a partnership with his Dutch brother and first worked with The Marvelettes.
"The main thing Motown did was to get people together," Dozier told Mojo Magazine in 2018. "They were really awkward times in the 1960s, because people were in conflict with each other. Music, it has a lot of illnesses and prejudices."
Later collaboration with Simply Red, Phil As with other Motown songwriters, Collins
did not find a suitable one in some of the early Holland-Dozier-Holland efforts. Official for the talented but struggling Supremes trio of Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Flow Ballard.
However, Sluice started withWhere Did Our Love Goin 1963 and was written for the fifth consecutive No. Supremes hit single,in 1965. Back In My Arms Againwinning streak.
After leaving Invictus in Holland ten years later, Dodger attacked on his own. .. Beginning in 1974 withOutHere on My Own, he released 12 solo albums under his own name.
In the 1980s, the hit songwas born in collaboration with Phil Collins. Two Hearts, Alison Moyet charted with his songInvisible , and Simply Red also searched for Motown legends.
"RIP Dear Lamont Dozier. Simply Red lead singer Mick Hacknal told Twitter on Tuesday:" One of the greatest songwriters of all time. "
Dozier told CBC. QEven after all his achievements, "you have to get it into work"
"as much time as possible during the day," he said.
