DER US-AMERIKANISCHE SÄNGER, SONGWRITER UND MUSIKPRODUZENT LAMONT DOZIER IST GESTORBEN

09.08.2022 Der am 16. Juni 1941 in Detroit (Michigan) geborene US-amerikanische Sänger, Musiker, Songwriter und Musikproduzent Lamont Herbert Dozier (Bild) ist am 8. August 2022 in Scottsdale (Arizona) gestorben. Er war Co-Autor von 14 US-Billboard-Nummer-1-Hits und von vier Nummer-1-Hits in den britischen Charts. Lamont Dozier war in den 1960er-Jahren Mitglied des äusserst erfolgreichen Songwriter- und Prozenten-Trios Holland-Dozier-Holland von Motowns Gnaden (in der Fachwelt als HDH bekannt). Zu den berühmtesten Hits gehörten "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", "Stop! In the Name of Love", "You Can’t Hurry Love", "You Keep Me Hangin' On" und "Two Hearts". InterpretInnen waren u.a. The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Four Tops, Kim Wilde und Phil Collins. Im Jahr 1988 wurden HDH in die Songwriter Hall of Fame und 1990 in die Rock & Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen.

Bild: Lamont Dozier, 2009 - Foto: Philkon Phil Konstantin - Public domain - Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LamontDozierByPhilKonstantin.jpg

Lamont Dozier, Writer of Numerous Motown Hits, Dies at 81

With the brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, Mr. Dozier wrote dozens of singles that reached the pop or R&B charts, including “You Can’t Hurry Love,” by the Supremes.

Gavin Edwards

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/arts/music/lamont-dozier-dead.html

Lamont Dozier, Motown Songwriter Behind Countless Classics, Dead at 81

As part of the incomparable songwriting team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the Detroit native co-wrote some of Motown’s most enduring songs.

Emily Zemler & Jon Blistein

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lamont-dozier-motown-dead-1394531/

Lamont Dozier’s No. 1 Hot 100 Hits, From ‘Where Did Our Love Go’ to ‘Two Hearts’

The legend tallied 14 leaders as a writer and 13 as a producer.

Lamont Dozier’s No. 1 Hot 100 Hits:

“Where Did Our Love Go,” The Supremes, beginning Aug. 22, 1964 (two weeks at No. 1)
“Baby Love,” The Supremes, Oct. 31, 1964 (four)
“Come See About Me,” The Supremes, Dec. 19, 1964 (two)
“Stop! In the Name of Love,” The Supremes, March 27, 1965 (two)
“Back in My Arms Again,” The Supremes , June 12, 1965 (one)
“I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch),” Four Tops, June 19, 1965 (two)
“I Hear a Symphony,” The Supremes, Nov. 20, 1965 (two)
“You Can’t Hurry Love,” The Supremes, Sept. 10, 1966 (two)
“Reach Out I’ll Be There,” Four Tops, Oct. 15, 1966 (two)
“You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” The Supremes, Nov. 19, 1966 (two)
“Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone,” The Supremes, March 11, 1967 (one)
“The Happening,” The Supremes, May 13, 1967 (one)
“You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” Kim Wilde, June 6, 1987 (one)
“Two Hearts,” Phil Collins, Jan. 21, 1989 (two)

Gary Trust

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/lamont-dozier-number-one-hot-100-hits-1235124497/

Songwriter Lamont Dozier who co-wrote hits for the Supremes and Four Tops has died

Earlier this year the Library of Congress named Holland-Dozier-Holland's "Reach Out, I'll Be There," recorded by The Four Tops in 1966, to its National Recording Registry.

Lamont Dozier "wanted to write 'a journey of emotions with sustained tension, like a bolero,'" according to The Library of Congress. "To achieve that, he 'alternated the keys, from a minor, Russian feel in the verse to a major, gospel feel in the chorus.' "Dozier parted ways with the Holland brothers in the early 1970s but his creative output continued over the next several decades. He released a solo album and penned songs for Alison Moyet, Simply Red and Phil Collins.

Elizabeth Blair

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/09/1116472786/lamont-dozier-motown-died?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1MD1MWl4qgSBxUy7oRSbX-e4OXuFxv9ksZ2z2qb57GdGhKslHf74-_xx4

Legendary Motown Songwriter Lamont Dozier Dies at 81

“It all starts with personalities, with people digging each other, as they used to say,” Dozier told Variety in 2015 when the trio received their star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. “There’s something true about working with the same people, even if it’s for a short time. Usually, the ones that are successful, they have a 10-year span, and then everybody tends to want to do their own thing. Very few stay together — I guess the Stones, and a few others. But eventually, after 10 years, everyone wants to do something different.”

Jem Aswad

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/lamont-dozier-dies-motown-1235336883/

Lamont Dozier obituary

Member of the trio who wrote and produced songs that built the Motown legend and helped define popular music in the 1960s.

Holland-Dozier-Holland classics include Heat Wave and Nowhere to Run (with Martha and the Vandellas), Can I Get a Witness (Marvin Gaye), Baby I Need Your Loving, I Can’t Help Myself and Reach Out I’ll Be There (Four Tops), This Old Heart of Mine (Isley Brothers), Take Me in Your Arms (Kim Weston) and a record-breaking string of No 1 hits in the US charts for the Supremes, starting with Where Did Our Love Go in 1964 and including Baby Love, Stop! In the Name of Love, You Can’t Hurry Love and You Keep Me Hangin’ On.

Richard Williams

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/09/lamont-dozier-obituary

L'auteur-compositeur Lamont Dozier, géant de la soul, est mort à 81 ans

Lamont Dozier, l'un des plus grands chanteurs et auteurs-compositeurs de soul du label Motown, qui a écrit pour The Supremes, Marvin Gaye et The Isley Brothers, est mort à l'âge de 81 ans, a annoncé son fils mardi. «Repose en paix céleste, papa !» a écrit sur Instagram le fils de Dozier sans dévoiler les causes du décès de l'artiste américain.

https://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/l-auteur-compositeur-lamont-dozier-geant-de-la-soul-est-mort-a-81-ans-20220809

"Stop - In the Name of Love": Motown-Legende Lamont Dozier verstorben

Gemeinsam mit den Gebrüdern Holland zeichnete der Musiker für unvergessliche Hits von Gruppen wie The Supremes verantwortlich.

Michael Huber

https://kurier.at/kultur/stop-in-the-name-of-love-motown-legende-lamont-dozier-verstorben/402105084

"Black Bach"

"You Keep Me Hangin' On", "Stop! In the Name of Love", "You Can't Hurry Love": An vielen Soul-Hits wirkte Lamont Dozier als Komponist und Arrangeur mit. Nun ist der selbst ernannte "Black Bach" mit 81 Jahren gestorben.

feb

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/lamont-dozier-ist-tot-er-schrieb-motown-hits-mit-holland-dozier-holland-a-2fea9297-773d-4293-b039-6742e573e019

Songwriter der Supremes: Motown-Grösse Lamont Dozier stirbt mit 81

Von der Mitte der 60er Jahre an brachte Dozier zusammen mit den Brüdern Brian und Eddie Holland immer neue Songs in die Charts. Die drei Songwriter erreichten Dutzende Top-40-Platzierungen, darunter eine Reihe von Top-10-Hits, die selbst den Beatles Konkurrenz machten. (…) In einem 2019 veröffentlichten Interview der Zeitung "Detroit Free Press" sagte Dozier, dass er keine Noten lesen könne: "Ich habe alles nach Gehör und Gefühl gemacht, als ich mich ans Klavier gesetzt habe. Ich danke Gott für die Akkorde und Melodien und alles, was ich hineingesteckt habe. Glauben Sie mir – es war eine Menge harter Arbeit, auf dieses Klavier zu hämmern, um einen Song zu schreiben und ihn obendrein zu einem Hit zu machen."

Keystone-SDA

https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/alle-news-in-kuerze/songwriter-der-supremes--motown-groesse-lamont-dozier-stirbt-mit-81/47815066

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My condolences to Lamont Dozier’s family. He will always be remembered through all the beautiful songs that he wrote for me and the Supremes, and so many other beautiful songs.

Diana Ross

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=614892329993205&set=a.266941778121597

RIP dear Lamont Dozier. One of the greatest songwriters of all time. Truly privileged to have written 4 songs together- Infidelity, Suffer, Turn It Up and You’ve Got It. Rest well Soul Brother.

Simply Red

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=617943243034371&set=a.216787089816657

He will be forever missed but never forgotten for his contribution to the landscape of American music, which was born from his vision, and together with Brian and Eddie Holland, Lamont will live on forever.

Steve Perry

https://www.facebook.com/steveperrymusic

Audios / Videos

Lamont Dozier's most memorable songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn8kMZFzZiA

Lamont Dozier, NAMM Oral History Program

https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/lamont-dozier

Lamont Dozier - Going To My Roots (1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdEwRm-kSJ0

Lamont Dozier - Motown songwriter | Het verhaal achter het nummer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kvV47pshmk

Martha & the Vandellas - Heatwave