{"id":114341,"date":"2022-08-10T05:46:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T10:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=114341"},"modified":"2022-08-10T05:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T10:59:45","slug":"motown-songwriter-lamont-dozier-dead-at-81-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=114341","title":{"rendered":"Motown Songwriter Lamont Dozier Dead at 81 &#8211; Music News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=114341\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=114341\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-114342 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/LamontDozier800_6_20-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/LamontDozier800_6_20-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/LamontDozier800_6_20.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lamont Dozier, the Motown songwriter behind hits such as the Supremes\u2019 \u201cBaby Love\u201d and \u201cYou Keep Me Hanging On\u201d passed away August 9, 2022, near Scottsdale, Arizona. The cause of death was not given. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p>Dozier was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer from Detroit, Michigan. He co-wrote and produced 14 US Billboard number 1 hits and 4 number ones in the UK. He was a member of Holland-Dozier-Holland, the songwriting and production team responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, The Four Tops, and The Isley Brothers. He also collaborated with Phil Collins to write the Golden Globe award-winning song \u201cTwo Hearts\u201d. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dozier and the Holland brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Lamont Dozier\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Lamont Dozier, the Motown songwriter behind hits such as the Supremes\u2019 \u201cBaby Love\u201d and \u201cYou Keep Me Hanging On\u201d passed away August 9, 2022, near Scottsdale, Arizona. The cause of death was not given. He was 81. Dozier was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer from Detroit, Michigan. He co-wrote and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[29454],"class_list":["post-114341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-motown-songwriter-lamont-dozier-dead-at-81-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114341"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}