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12 Aug 22 - 11:04 AM (#4150072) Subject: Obit: Lamont Dozier - Motown Maestro From: voyager 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 |
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12 Aug 22 - 12:52 PM (#4150081) Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022) From: GUEST Oh, all those songs on the radio, the soundtrack of my childhood. |
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12 Aug 22 - 03:12 PM (#4150097) Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022) From: fat B****rd Right with you there, Guest. Wonderful songs and still available in the fB house. RIP Lamont |
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13 Aug 22 - 04:37 AM (#4150118) Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022) From: GUEST 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. |
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13 Aug 22 - 02:08 PM (#4150158) Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022) From: keberoxu 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! |
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13 Aug 22 - 05:04 PM (#4150179) Subject: RE: Obit: Motown Maestro Lamont Dozier (1941-2022) From: fat B****rd Seconded, Keberoxu. |