Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022)

Subject: Obit: Lamont Dozier - Motown Maestro
From: voyager
Date: 12 Aug 22 - 11:04 AM

From the UK Guardian - Lamont Dozier - Legacy (Motown Blockbuster Songwriter)

What a string of hits - ... songs he wrote with Brian and Eddie Holland in the 60s and early 70s: Baby Love, Nowhere to Run, Stop! In the Name of Love, Reach Out I’ll Be There, Heatwave, I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch), Band of Gold, You Can’t Hurry Love, You Keep Me Hangin On and Bernadette among them – a catalogue that meant Holland-Dozier-Holland stood out even amid the riches of songwriting and production talent assembled at Motown. There’s a fair argument for calling this collection of songs the greatest in the history of pop.

I love the Four Tops!
voyager

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022)
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Aug 22 - 12:52 PM

Oh, all those songs on the radio,
the soundtrack of my childhood.

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Aug 22 - 03:12 PM

Right with you there, Guest. Wonderful songs and still available in the fB house. RIP Lamont

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022)
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Aug 22 - 04:37 AM

Most overlooked songwriters in pop music.
Nearly all the songs have the traditional Motown heavy backbeat.
I loved them all, esp. “Heatwave” & “The Happening”.
Thank you, Lamont, Brian & Eddie.

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022)
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Aug 22 - 02:08 PM

I may be mistaken on this, but when I think of these songs
I think of the glorious bass player (and pitiful alcoholic) named
James Jamerson.
What he could do with a bass line!

Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 13 Aug 22 - 05:04 PM

Seconded, Keberoxu.