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He says just let me hear a little bit of it. �How sweet it is to be loved��okay, roll the tape, man. I said, man, what you doing? How can you � you haven t even heard the song. I heard it. One take. And he sings, �How sweet it is to be��all right, that s it. I ve got to go now. Josh Kun: Was that song really in one take?( Beau Dozier Hits)

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Beau Dozier => Beau Dozier: I feel like it really depends on the project that you re working on, because sometimes you get in with a band and you want it to be organic. You get a bunch of players together and you chart out your song and jam like they used to do back then. Sometimes there s one guy sitting at a computer that has all these sample libraries and everything. But look at Amy Winehouse. She can go in and get that whole sound, with the exact same technique like it s always been. It stays around. It just really depends on who the artist is.

The deal was that if you cut a track, you ve got to make sure somebody records this thing or sing it or else you don t get paid for the track. I said, oh Lord, this girl won t do the song. So I looked at the totem pole, you know, the roster totem pole and the lowest group on the totem pole was the Supremes. So I figured that they couldn t refuse this. So I thought this is how I ll get out of this.

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So then I told the Supremes, I got this song, it s going to be the biggest smash of your career. Nuh-uh, we a int going for that! Baby, we heard about that ugly song! And I said, Oh, my God. But then Eddie Brown and I, talked to them and convinced them that this is the song they need. And they did the song and sure enough, it was a 4-million seller and the first of 12 consecutive number-ones for them and everybody knows the story of the Supremes becoming huge.

Unidentified Audience Member: Hi. First off, I want to thank you. I m from Michigan. I can t even tell you how alive your music is. It was the soundtrack to all of our lives there, so I thank you. Lamont Dozier: Thank you. Beau dozier Unidentified Audience Member: That being said, my friend Drew back there is a DJ from Detroit.

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I thought about what I said � cash register, stop in the name of love. And that whole theme came from stop, look and listen, what you told the kids when you cross the street: Stop, look and listen. Stop in the name of love equals number one record for the Supremes. I took it to the guys and said hey, I think I ve got another one. Josh Kun: That s great.

Josh Kun: So Beau, did that approach � of music from church and from film and many different influences when you were growing up � get filtered down to you or were you off on your own path, like you said, with Hall and Oates? Was there ever a moment when you were listening to stuff and your dad said something like, what is that? I m not having that music!

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Beau Dozier songwriter => Then when I get home, I listen to my messages and play the melody, putting chords around it if it comes around. Or sometimes I sit in the studio and make tracks all day long and then a writer or an artist will come over and say, I like that one. Okay, cool, get out. And then we ll write something real quick on the spot.

Yet today, the Detroit hip hop community is so strong and it s rooted in the same kind of soul and the oppression that comes out of that city, it s just so strong, but the sound can t seem to reach outside of the borders of the state. I want to know what you think it was about the �60s that made it so special then?( Music Beau Dozier)

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He s been responsible for a record-setting string of million-selling songs, everything from � and hopefully you recognize some of these tunes - [�Where Did Our Love Go?� by The Supremes] You can sing along. [�You Keep Me Hangin On� by The Supremes] Or one of the best descriptions of what love is when it hits us: [�Heat Wave� by Martha and the Vandellas] Or [�How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You� by Marvin Gaye] Or even more recently, his work with Phil Collins on this song: [�Two Hearts� by Phil Collins]

Lamont Dozier: Then all of a sudden here it is, it s been like what �? Beau Dozier: Forever. Lamont Dozier: 25 years almost. Beau Dozier: Forever. Lamont Dozier: And it s still here. It reminded me of what they said about rock and roll back in the �50s. I remember seeing Richard Rodgers. I loved Richard Rodgers.

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That s one of the jobs of a great pop song, to make it okay. So today we re going to be celebrating that art, that power. And I m beyond thrilled and beyond honored that we have Lamont Dozier and also Beau Dozier here with us today. We re going to have to work on a British pronunciation of Beau Dozier that works really well.

Josh Kun: What s interesting is one of the hottest albums in the country right now is the one I mentioned a little earlier, Mark Ronson s album called Version. And the whole record is really an homage to the 1960s Motown and late �60s- 70s Stax sound, with a live band, real organic, big horns. There seems to be a return in the whole Amy Winehouse record, and Sharon Jones � it seems like everybody, even within hip hop and R&B communities who are used to working with Pro Tools and sample libraries, is throwing it out the window and trying to get back to the live sound.

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Beau Dozier profile => Josh Kun: Let s hear a little bit of it. Jim, this is track 11. This is the song they wrote together. [�Spoiled� by Joss Stone plays.] Too bad she can t sing, right? I mean, beautiful, beautiful. So I thought maybe we should open it up to the audience, get some questions. I ve got plenty more, but I d love to hear what people out in the crowd have to say. Yes? Oh, I m sorry � there are microphones on both sides; the easiest I think might be to come up to the mic. If not, shout if you can t get over there.

Beau Dozier: I really couldn t play that well either, but I could play by ear. I never could play like how I wanted. There were kids who were little prodigies and they would play and you d go Wow! I can still only play and you know, doodle around or whatever. Josh Kun: So what are some of the big memories for you growing up? Were there moments when you realized, Wow!

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I don t know if people still listen to Billy Bragg or know about Billy Bragg. But it had a line in the song that went like this, and I m going to try doing it with Billy Bragg s accent, which is pretty thick. And it went like this: [in heavy, British working-class accent] �Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too, are here to make it all okay with you.� Now, for years, I admit that I had no idea what Billy Bragg was saying. But with time and some wisdom, I realized that �Lamont Dozier� was Lamont Dozier and that Levi Stubbs, who had tears in his eyes, was in fact the singer from the Four Tops and that he was singing about the legacy of Motown.

So then I told the Supremes, I got this song, it s going to be the biggest smash of your career. Nuh-uh, we a int going for that! Baby, we heard about that ugly song! And I said, Oh, my God. But then Eddie Brown and I, talked to them and convinced them that this is the song they need. And they did the song and sure enough, it was a 4-million seller and the first of 12 consecutive number-ones for them and everybody knows the story of the Supremes becoming huge.( Beau Dozier Artist)

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But what stuck with me, even though I didn t quite understand what he was singing about, was that Bragg was talking about popular music s greatest power, the power to heal us, to make our lives better, to make us happy after a long day s work, to sooth us after a bad breakup. That s what pop songs really are for, to let us heal from our pain, to let us celebrate our joys. But most importantly, we do all that through the emotions of other people, through the lyrics and lives and words and music of someone else s songs.

Beau Dozier: Again, it really depends on who the artist is and where you re trying to put the song. If you want to put the song in the club, then you re going to have an MD record and it s going to be kind of drum-driven. It might have a sample, but most of the audience isn t even really listening to the song or trying to take some meaning from it.

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About Beau Dozier => Beau Dozier: I feel like it really depends on the project that you re working on, because sometimes you get in with a band and you want it to be organic. You get a bunch of players together and you chart out your song and jam like they used to do back then. Sometimes there s one guy sitting at a computer that has all these sample libraries and everything. But look at Amy Winehouse. She can go in and get that whole sound, with the exact same technique like it s always been. It stays around. It just really depends on who the artist is.

I used to go to the A&P and ask people to help them to their car, you know, help take their groceries to the car for a tip. And every dime I got, I would go and � I think records were about a quarter then, some of the 45s or something like that � I would get records and I would just listen to them and listen to them.

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Lamont is behind over 54 number one hits. In the 1963 to 1967 four-year period alone, he was behind 25 Top 10 pop records, 12 of which reached the number one spot. In addition, they wrote 12 other songs that made the Top 10 on the rhythm and blues charts, making a total of 37 in that one period.

Beau Dozier: I feel like it really depends on the project that you re working on, because sometimes you get in with a band and you want it to be organic. You get a bunch of players together and you chart out your song and jam like they used to do back then. Sometimes there s one guy sitting at a computer that has all these sample libraries and everything. But look at Amy Winehouse. She can go in and get that whole sound, with the exact same technique like it s always been. It stays around. It just really depends on who the artist is.

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But it s not all about the Motown days with Lamont and for us today. Holland-Dozier-Holland started their own labels Invictus and Hot Wax and then Lamont emerged as a solo artist and is still to this day singing and writing and producing. His solo albums from the 1970s are among the most sampled within the world of hip hop by everyone from Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac, to Three 6 Mafia, Mary J. Blige, Nas, Usher and even Linkin Park.

And if they re good songs, they arrive like kind of musical balms, in that they are like surprise gifts from some magical person called a songwriter, a magical person called a musician, who pulls melodies and words and harmonies, seemingly from straight out of the air and in doing so, changes our lives forever without us knowing about it at first. They are, as Billy Bragg very wisely said in that song, here to make everything okay for us.( About Beau Dozier music)

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Info about Beau Dozier => He actually has your record with him today. You got it, Drew? Lamont Dozier: Oh, Wow! Is that me with my belly hanging out? Oh no, that s Lamont Dozier s new album or something like that? Unidentified Audience Member: Love and Beauty. Lamont Dozier: Love and Beauty, yes. That s that album they were talking about. Everybody thought that was me.

He s been responsible for a record-setting string of million-selling songs, everything from � and hopefully you recognize some of these tunes - [�Where Did Our Love Go?� by The Supremes] You can sing along. [�You Keep Me Hangin On� by The Supremes] Or one of the best descriptions of what love is when it hits us: [�Heat Wave� by Martha and the Vandellas] Or [�How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You� by Marvin Gaye] Or even more recently, his work with Phil Collins on this song: [�Two Hearts� by Phil Collins]

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Beau Dozier: It s your thing, you know: number one songs. Lamont Dozier: MTV wouldn t play it when it first came out. Beau Dozier: Yes, MTV was like � Lamont Dozier: And now that s all you hear on MTV. Beau Dozier: But then as soon as MTV was done with their little anti-rap campaign, they were the first ones to have Yo! MTV Raps. It s crazy.

Lamont Dozier: You know, I m really sort of a gushy-mushy type of guy, a love song type of guy. And I m a crybaby. So I can sit playing and crying to my � that s probably where he got it from. Josh Kun: That s right. Beau s like, �Thanks, Dad.� Lamont Dozier: And I feel, if I play a chord � I don t read music, first of all; it s all strictly by ear � so if I play some chords or something that feels good or that hits me here, the point where it s just so intense and it just takes over my emotions, you know, then that s the song that I ll finish.

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I really loved this guy. But sure enough, he said the same thing I said, what is this stuff? This stuff will be out of here in five years. Almost identical to the words I said. And the stuff lasted. It s still going strong, Motown stuff. Beau Dozier: They incorporated, like with the rap stuff, a lot of pop elements in their songs. Lamont Dozier: Right. Beau Dozier: It started becoming very radio. Lamont Dozier: That s what I was going to say.

That s one of the jobs of a great pop song, to make it okay. So today we re going to be celebrating that art, that power. And I m beyond thrilled and beyond honored that we have Lamont Dozier and also Beau Dozier here with us today. We re going to have to work on a British pronunciation of Beau Dozier that works really well.

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About Beau Dozier songwriter => Either I would do that or I would go to the Rialto Theater, which was right up the street from where I lived, and I would sit there and watch these musicals of the �50s over and over. My Fair Lady. Man, I must have seen that thing 30,000 times or something, you know. I d sit up right in the front row.

And my girlfriend was still banging and the door wasn t that sturdy and Bang! she came in. What s going on, where is she!? She was babbling and crying. I was trying to stop this fiasco that had happened to me. And I said, Oh, sweetheart, what are you talking about? Nobody s here. I was feeling bad, I had a headache. I came here to rest and dah, dah, dah. And I said, please, come on now, stop in the name of love! Please! And she said, stop in the name of love? That ain t funny to me! And I said, wait, didn t you hear that cash register? Because I was thinking.( Info about Beau Dozier)

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Josh Kun: Did anyone ever want to be Oates? Beau Dozier: I don t think so. I don t know. But I don t think so. Josh Kun: He didn t seem like he was a star. I felt so bad for him always. What about the Motown stuff that you heard? Was that a big influence on the way you thought about songs?

He said, I don t like the sound with Pro Tools. I m like, dude, you re not going to be able to tell the difference. And you sit there and forget how much studio time you actually waste rewinding the tape. Josh Kun: And your time is not cheap. Beau Dozier: Oh, man, definitely not. I m glad it wasn t my dollar.

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Beau Dozier: And I think with any type of music, when you try to get rid of it, it only makes the audience rebel and go hard for it. They tried to do it with rap. There was a point in time, even four or five years ago, when KISSFM wouldn t play rap. There d be a rap bridge and they would take the rap bridge out! They wouldn t play rap. Until rap songs started being number one. It s like, dude, you guys kind of have to play it. Lamont Dozier: Yes.

He s been responsible for a record-setting string of million-selling songs, everything from � and hopefully you recognize some of these tunes - [�Where Did Our Love Go?� by The Supremes] You can sing along. [�You Keep Me Hangin On� by The Supremes] Or one of the best descriptions of what love is when it hits us: [�Heat Wave� by Martha and the Vandellas] Or [�How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You� by Marvin Gaye] Or even more recently, his work with Phil Collins on this song: [�Two Hearts� by Phil Collins]

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Beau Dozier Hits => Beau Dozier: Again, it really depends on who the artist is and where you re trying to put the song. If you want to put the song in the club, then you re going to have an MD record and it s going to be kind of drum-driven. It might have a sample, but most of the audience isn t even really listening to the song or trying to take some meaning from it.

Lamont Dozier: In say, �Where Did Our Love Go?� or any of the songs for that matter, we would make demos. The three of us, the Holland Brothers and myself, were all singers. We were all from the church and we all sang. So we would make our own demos with all of the reflections and all of our performance ideas crammed into the song. And we gave them the demo, usually a little cassette � no, not a cassette, a reel to reel tape in those days!

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Beau Dozier: Oh, a sample is basically when you take somebody else s record and there might be an available four bars of a song and you take it and incorporate it in a new song. It would probably be the driving force of your track. For the JoJo song we took �Africa� from Toto, and then we added some drums to the first four bars of the song. It happens a lot in hip hop and in R&B music. Unidentified Audience Member: You ll actually borrow someone else s �?

Lamont Dozier: Well, we did a thing a year and a half ago or so, for Joss Stone,�Spoiled.� When they asked me to come up with something for Joss Stone, I said, well, how old is she? She s 15 to 16-years-old. You can t make the song too suggestive. She s only 16. So you have to be very careful about what you give a young girl like that to sing. So I said, 16, what can I think about, what would I give a 16-year old girl? Right then, my daughter came walking in the room, giving orders to the household about what she don t want and she don t like. And I said, there it is:( Discography Beau Dozier)

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Lamont Dozier: Yes, he was just crying and crying. Beau Dozier: I don t know what it was. Lamont Dozier: I said, what s wrong, Beau? And he said, oh, it sounds so pretty. He d sit there on the floor and just play it again and again. So he s just crying, and I said, it sounds so pretty. You want me to stop? He goes, no, just play it again.

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