https://variety.com/2022/music/news/lamont-dozier-dies-motown-1235336883/
This is somewhat embarrassing. Several years ago, when I
wrote up one of the finest pure pop classics of all time, I completely missed
the fact that “Two
Hearts” was co-written by Phil Collins and … Lamont Dozier.
Dozier, of course, is best known as part of the legendary Holland-Dozier-Holland
Motown song-writing threesome, along with Brian and Eddie Holland. Dozier, however,
continued to have success even after leaving the Motown conglomerate, both with
the Hollands and on his own.
I was also reminded of another personal favorite, Billy Bragg’s
“Levi
Stubbs' Tears”, which contains the following couplet at the end of the
bridge:
Holland and Holland and Lamont
Dozier too
Are here to make it all okay with
you
Favorite HDH Motown songs (short titles were obviously not
their thing):
Love
(Makes Me Do Foolish Things) – Martha & The Vandellas
This Old Heart Of
Mine (Is Weak For You) – Isley Brothers
Take Me In Your
Arms (Rock Me A Little While) – Kim Weston, with a great cover version later by
the Doobie Brothers
Baby I Need Your
Loving – Four Tops
How Sweet It Is To
Be Loved By You – Marvin Gaye
