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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.( About Beau Dozier)
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Beau Dozier => It was supposed to be a Martha and the Vandellas song. But I had written the song for Loretta Lynn. It was a country song. And the guy looked at me and he said man, you crazy or something? He said that ain t going to work over here. I said, I bet it will. Then I figured he might be right, so I hedged my bet. I cut it two ways. I cut it one way for Loretta Lynn.
Unidentified Audience Member: Lamont, I was glad to hear that music can speak to all of us, because I m one of those unfortunate souls that can t help but clap on one and three. And with that background in mind, Beau, I ve got a real simple question for you. I didn t know what a sample or samples were? Sampling?
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Josh Kun: And you wonder why he s got the Fisher-Price turntable and that dirty rap. Lamont Dozier: She tracked me down, because somebody had told her or snitched � I thought I saw him down at so and so motel � and she followed me down there and was banging on the door. I said, Oh, my God, who s this? What is that? Sure enough, I looked out the side window, and I said, Oh, girl, you got to go quick! So I led her to the back door of the place.
It was supposed to be a Martha and the Vandellas song. But I had written the song for Loretta Lynn. It was a country song. And the guy looked at me and he said man, you crazy or something? He said that ain t going to work over here. I said, I bet it will. Then I figured he might be right, so I hedged my bet. I cut it two ways. I cut it one way for Loretta Lynn.
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When they re translating his records into all these other languages, I thought, okay, maybe I ll do his thing. Josh Kun: But as Beau started writing and producing and doing his own thing, the pop musical landscape obviously was quite different than it was when you started. Are there things about his writing and his contemporaries that have actually started to influence you or that have affected you in some way?
I think the true test of a song s greatness is its ability to endure cover versions and Lamont s legacy has been covered by everyone from � I don t think there s a single living artist who can claim this � everyone from the hardcore Long Beach Mexican Ranchera Queen, Jenni Rivera, to �80s new wave king, Soft Cell, to James Taylor, The Who, and I ll just list off a few other minor artists like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Barbara Streisand, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, and Rod Stewart.
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Beau Dozier songwriter => I want to particularly note, besides the Annenberg School where you re sitting, the Popular Music Project, which is a new endeavor of the Norman Lear Center, which is also part of the Annenberg School and is the brainchild of one of our newest, but already most important faculty members who will be taking over to moderate this event in a minute.
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:( Beau Dozier Songs)
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Without Lamont, artists like the Supremes and the Four Tops and Martha Reeves and Marvin Gaye would not be the artists that we know them as today. Indeed, I really think it s impossible to even think about what 20th century American pop music would have sounded like without our guest today. He remains one of the most popular, most recognized, most covered songwriters in the world. In 1990, he and the Holland Brothers were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and with good reason.
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.
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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: And so do you start at the piano? Lamont Dozier: Yes, I start at the piano. It just usually depends on the feeling of the song. I start with my left hand. I love starting with a base line, you know, like �Sugar pie, honey bunch,� you know, something like that for the Four Tops. And I get the feeling and I ll stomp.
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Beau Dozier profile => 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?
Beau Dozier: Really, it depends on who you re working with. As a matter of fact, I had heard that record, not �Africa,� but I knew the sample. I always had it in my head, but I never knew who did it. I wanted to use it. And my friend, Justin, came over and said sample one of these and he played it. I was like, Wow! I ve been trying to sample this for three or four years and do the record.
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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:
Josh Kun: I recently read in � Lamont Dozier: So they owe me some money! Josh Kun: I recently saw an interview with the two songwriters who wrote �Like a Virgin� and the one who did the music said he was walking to the studio and a car drove by playing �Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch.� When he got to the piano, he said, he just inverted the opening bass line and there was the song.( Discography Beau Dozier)
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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:
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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About Beau Dozier => The R&B director there said, you have to understand this is an R&B company. And I said, well why can t you make music for everybody? Well, this is just an R&B company, meaning a black company. And I said, I don t agree with that. Everybody feels music, no matter what it is. And if you put together the right stuff, everybody will like it. And so one of the first things I did was, �Here Is Your Teddy Bear.�
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?
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Between Father and Son: Music and Creativity Across the Generations Larry Gross: I d like to welcome you all to the Annenberg School. I m Larry Gross. I m the director of the School of Communication. That gives me the right to open this event, which is an honor and a pleasure. This event, as you can see, has many sponsors, because it s such an impressive event that lots of people wanted to claim authorship.
That was our niche, that rich mixture of sounds. If you really take apart the Holland-Dozier- Holland songs, you would hear gospel, classical, jazz, even some country and western. All mixed together and blended. It s like making a cake. It either tastes good or bad or you don t have the right ingredients in it. A chicken cacciatore, you leave out one little bit, you miss it. So we tried to make sure that our songs had all of these ingredients so the flavor was just right and you get this thing that s just so infectious that it makes you want to get up and do something. Dance when you can t dance.
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I ll get them in here to do this song and I don t have to pay for it. It won t be stuck on me. So, sure enough, they came in. And what Gladys Horton did, she went around and told the girls, they got a song they trying to pedal on you, don t you go for it, or else y all girls will never have anything if you go for this.
Beau Dozier: Yes, we wanted to do it like Sam Cooke. We were saying so many songs these days sound so programmed. This is what your verse sounds like and this is what your chorus sounds like and then it goes back to that section. So I thought what if we have this hook, what if we have the first verse sound like this and then go into the second verse. I said, we re going somewhere else. Let s break that standard. And it was kind of cool.( Music Beau Dozier)
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Info about Beau Dozier => They re just dancing and having fun and it evokes a fun spirit and that s what it is. But sometimes when you want to hear a real record � there s artists that, again, you ll have an organic thing with and you ll have a song with changes and it ll keep growing and it ll be a big metamorphosis. It really just depends on who the artist is. I think it s 50/50, it s equal. Josh Kun: I thank you both for being here. Thank all of you for coming today. Lamont Dozier: Thank you.
Beau Dozier: Take someone else s actual recordings and loop it. Unidentified Audience Member: And that s cool? Josh Kun: And often pay for it. Beau Dozier: Oh yes! You pay for it dearly. You start doing records for free at that point. Lamont Dozier: Yes, you have to pay for that. Josh Kun: Last question.
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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.
Josh Kun: Tell me it wasn t on the Fisher-Price. Beau Dozier: No, it wasn t on the Fisher-Price. It was on a reel to reel eight-track. Made a dirty record and got in trouble and I was grounded for two weeks. And I remember we were swimming in the pool and Dad was working with Debbie Gibson and I remember she said that rap stuff is here today, gone tomorrow. And I was like, okay. It was interesting. Josh Kun: I like that in your household you d get in trouble for making dirty rap records.
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I ll get them in here to do this song and I don t have to pay for it. It won t be stuck on me. So, sure enough, they came in. And what Gladys Horton did, she went around and told the girls, they got a song they trying to pedal on you, don t you go for it, or else y all girls will never have anything if you go for this.
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 Songs => He started playing this thing, I said, Barbara, you better come and listen to this! He had just heard it one time, a little bit of it and started playing. I said I think we ve got somebody with a gift in this house. Josh Kun: You re the kind of kid I hated when I was little. I couldn t play anything.
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!( About Beau Dozier)
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It hurt me bad when he said, what is this crap? You know what I mean? He was doing an interview. Now I love Richard Rodgers, right? And when he said that, I was having a lot of success at the time at Motown. And they just happened to be talking about one of the Motown songs and he said something about this mess and dah, dah, dah. He really cut me to the quick.
And he kept talking and talking to me about it. I still said in five years this crap is going to be out of here. Beau Dozier: You know, Debbie Gibson said that one time. I remember I got in trouble when my friend Walter and I made a dirty record. We were into 2 Live Crew and, yes, we made a 3 Live Crew record. We made a dirty record on my little home studio. I got grounded.
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I won t take any more time from this terrific event, but hand it over to Josh now. Josh Kun: I want to thank everybody for coming. Glad it was something positive and not negative. When I was growing up, one of my favorite songs was a tune called �Levi Stubbs Tears� and it was written by a young British protest singer named, Billy Bragg.
Josh Kun: Tell me it wasn t on the Fisher-Price. Beau Dozier: No, it wasn t on the Fisher-Price. It was on a reel to reel eight-track. Made a dirty record and got in trouble and I was grounded for two weeks. And I remember we were swimming in the pool and Dad was working with Debbie Gibson and I remember she said that rap stuff is here today, gone tomorrow. And I was like, okay. It was interesting. Josh Kun: I like that in your household you d get in trouble for making dirty rap records.
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Beau Dozier => Other times you ll sit at the piano and come up with something like a chord progression and a melody. Or a lot of times for me, I ll be driving � well, not anymore. But I ll be driving � talk about that another time � you ll be driving and a melody will come into your head. It usually starts like that. And I ll get on my cell phone and call my voicemail and start singing the melody into the phone.
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.
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Living with my grandmother, we used to play music, too, so it was always around. And my grandmother told me to go and join the church, so I did and I had to go to choir rehearsals on Thursdays and be there every Sunday morning. So all of that singing and all that music just filled me and filled our house and really got me motivated into wanting to be somebody in the music business or entertainment field.
Beau Dozier: Well, the thing is, yes and no. When I was growing up, my dad had a bunch of solo records. I remember he had a song called �Fly Away Little Bird� and I used to put it on and start crying. I was threeyears- old.( About Beau Dozier songwriter)
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I don t think anyone since can touch those. But obviously now, in terms of production, writing a pop song is so different than it was. So I want to know � maybe if we could start with Lamont � how do songs happen for you? How do you actually put them together? And then Beau, to have you talk about that as well.
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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.( Beau Dozier)
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Beau Dozier => 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.
Without Lamont, artists like the Supremes and the Four Tops and Martha Reeves and Marvin Gaye would not be the artists that we know them as today. Indeed, I really think it s impossible to even think about what 20th century American pop music would have sounded like without our guest today. He remains one of the most popular, most recognized, most covered songwriters in the world. In 1990, he and the Holland Brothers were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and with good reason.
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I won t take any more time from this terrific event, but hand it over to Josh now. Josh Kun: I want to thank everybody for coming. Glad it was something positive and not negative. When I was growing up, one of my favorite songs was a tune called �Levi Stubbs Tears� and it was written by a young British protest singer named, Billy Bragg.
You know, some kids like to sit in the front row. Here I am, nine or 10-yearsold, just watching My Fair Lady. Just watching. And it made me feel like I was in the movie with the people, you know, and loving it. But what it did, really, was give me such a charge. I knew that I wanted to be somehow or other in the entertainment field, music or movies. So with my records and my memories of these movies, I sort of forged out a career. I started doing this on the piano and � Josh Kun: You started very young as well, around 10 or so, no?
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I m particularly pleased, as I think you all will be, by this event bringing together parents and children. Part of this is the soundtrack of my childhood and it may be the soundtrack of some of the younger folk s childhoods here as well. This is a terrific opportunity to make clear that communication is more than the news, it s more than television, it s more than media. It s the cultural environment that we all live in. And it was for that reason that I was delighted, as were my colleagues, when we recruited last year a new member of our faculty, Josh Kun, who is perfectly suited to study, research, teach and share with us the importance of sound and music as a shaper of culture.
I think the true test of a song s greatness is its ability to endure cover versions and Lamont s legacy has been covered by everyone from � I don t think there s a single living artist who can claim this � everyone from the hardcore Long Beach Mexican Ranchera Queen, Jenni Rivera, to �80s new wave king, Soft Cell, to James Taylor, The Who, and I ll just list off a few other minor artists like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Barbara Streisand, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, and Rod Stewart.
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Beau Dozier songwriter => 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.
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.( Beau Dozier music)
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Unidentified Audience Member: As you were talking, I was thinking about the documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, which I just found fascinating and the whole idea of where the musicians came from. And I m interested in the juxtaposition of what the musicianship is like now, compared to back then, because it s so different. So, I d love to hear both perspectives on the musician side of it.
And so the song, the performance and the way it should be delivered was all there. All she had to do was take it home, put it on her Webcore and listen to it and learn the song. Everything was there; just learn the song as is. Don t try to do anything different. We ve already done the work for you, just copy it. And that s how it went. And if somebody else tried to come in there and do it in a different way, we d have words � we didn t tell you to sing this song like that! What is that?
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So she had a little home beauty shop. I was out there one day, washing my red wagon and getting ready to go. And my grandfather, as my grandmother s customers were coming in to have their hair done, he would be sitting out in the garden, sort of a flirt with the women, how you do, sugar pie? How you doing this evening?
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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Beau Dozier profile => 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.
It hurt me bad when he said, what is this crap? You know what I mean? He was doing an interview. Now I love Richard Rodgers, right? And when he said that, I was having a lot of success at the time at Motown. And they just happened to be talking about one of the Motown songs and he said something about this mess and dah, dah, dah. He really cut me to the quick.
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And if people listen to the radio these days, the Mark Ronson cover of �Stop Me,� the Smith s song, actually segues into a Lamont tune at the end. It s on the radio right now. It s currently one of the few videos MTV is actually playing and it includes a bit of �Keep Me Hanging On� at the very end.
Lamont Dozier: From those stories. Josh Kun: Earlier today you were telling what is, I guess by now, within the Lamont history, the great story of �Stop In The Name of Love,� which, just for the sake of retelling it, you should share with the people, because it s a good one.Lamont Dozier: Yes. I got caught doing wrong. I ll put it that way. My girlfriend caught me cheating. And she tracked me down( Beau Dozier Hits)
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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.
I don t think anyone since can touch those. But obviously now, in terms of production, writing a pop song is so different than it was. So I want to know � maybe if we could start with Lamont � how do songs happen for you? How do you actually put them together? And then Beau, to have you talk about that as well.
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About Beau Dozier => I feel like the songs that are real are the ones where the melody comes and you just hear this thing; that s when you really are accidentally connected to this thing. Because you don t really write these things. Nobody really does. You re kind of like an antennae and it comes through you. When you are writing these songs � I mean, you start putting something down and you do what makes sense to that track. But then you have that thing just kind of hit you and you re like, Oh, man!
When they re translating his records into all these other languages, I thought, okay, maybe I ll do his thing. Josh Kun: But as Beau started writing and producing and doing his own thing, the pop musical landscape obviously was quite different than it was when you started. Are there things about his writing and his contemporaries that have actually started to influence you or that have affected you in some way?
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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!
It s just such a rich feeling and I listen to it all the time and it s one of my favorite records. And that s great. Then I started listening to all that stuff and I thought, Wow! this is crazy. One day I was watching a skateboard movie � I wanted to skateboard and I was never really good at it. The movie was called Gleaming the Cube, with Christian Slater, and he s hiding in the backseat of a car while a Korean dude s getting killed. And they re playing a Korean version of �Same Old Song� and that was crazy!
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It was supposed to be a Martha and the Vandellas song. But I had written the song for Loretta Lynn. It was a country song. And the guy looked at me and he said man, you crazy or something? He said that ain t going to work over here. I said, I bet it will. Then I figured he might be right, so I hedged my bet. I cut it two ways. I cut it one way for Loretta Lynn.
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.( About Beau Dozier music)
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Info about Beau Dozier => Josh Kun: And so do you start at the piano? Lamont Dozier: Yes, I start at the piano. It just usually depends on the feeling of the song. I start with my left hand. I love starting with a base line, you know, like �Sugar pie, honey bunch,� you know, something like that for the Four Tops. And I get the feeling and I ll stomp.
What was it like growing up in this household? Lamont Dozier: I guess it was sort of a lot of confusion, in one sense. I think Beau could probably tell you more. He was always looking at � I remember him watching all of the people that would come over, the musicians, Phil Collins or whoever � and Beau would be watching their feet. I guess he was about three years old. He d just be on the floor watching their feet! And I said, what are you looking at? He says, their feet.
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He s worked with the likes of B2K, which some people might know � there s some resistance to B2K; I had my B2K moves ready, but Beau told me not to do them � as well as artists like Avant. Clearly he s inherited the gift of �love storyteller.� There s a long list of artists that Beau has worked with as well: Boyz II Men, 3OW, Backstreet Boys, and most notably perhaps, JoJo and Joss Stone.
Lamont Dozier: From those stories. Josh Kun: Earlier today you were telling what is, I guess by now, within the Lamont history, the great story of �Stop In The Name of Love,� which, just for the sake of retelling it, you should share with the people, because it s a good one.Lamont Dozier: Yes. I got caught doing wrong. I ll put it that way. My girlfriend caught me cheating. And she tracked me down
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They used to call me the Stomper, my landlord. �Hey Stomper, Stomper, stop that stomping!� You know what I mean? This is before the stuff was beginning to take off and I m just stomping and she was screaming at us. Hit the broom on the ceiling. Josh Kun: I actually want to talk about that song. But before, can we hear � Jim, if you re back there, can we hear track 10, really quick, just the beginning? Everyone know this song? [�Like a Virgin� by Madonna plays.]
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 Artist => Beau Dozier: Really, it depends on who you re working with. As a matter of fact, I had heard that record, not �Africa,� but I knew the sample. I always had it in my head, but I never knew who did it. I wanted to use it. And my friend, Justin, came over and said sample one of these and he played it. I was like, Wow! I ve been trying to sample this for three or four years and do the record.
Josh Kun: And you wonder why he s got the Fisher-Price turntable and that dirty rap. Lamont Dozier: She tracked me down, because somebody had told her or snitched � I thought I saw him down at so and so motel � and she followed me down there and was banging on the door. I said, Oh, my God, who s this? What is that? Sure enough, I looked out the side window, and I said, Oh, girl, you got to go quick! So I led her to the back door of the place.( Info about Beau Dozier)
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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.
It s just such a rich feeling and I listen to it all the time and it s one of my favorite records. And that s great. Then I started listening to all that stuff and I thought, Wow! this is crazy. One day I was watching a skateboard movie � I wanted to skateboard and I was never really good at it. The movie was called Gleaming the Cube, with Christian Slater, and he s hiding in the backseat of a car while a Korean dude s getting killed. And they re playing a Korean version of �Same Old Song� and that was crazy!
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Lamont Dozier: Yes, it has. You know, when he first started bringing home some of his rap friends, I said, what in the world? A lot of people say I m from the old school. So when he and his friends were talking and rapping, I was trying to figure out what they were saying: What is this mess? You know? And he said, Dad, you have to understand. This is the new thing. I said, the new what? I was really totally down on it.
Without Lamont, artists like the Supremes and the Four Tops and Martha Reeves and Marvin Gaye would not be the artists that we know them as today. Indeed, I really think it s impossible to even think about what 20th century American pop music would have sounded like without our guest today. He remains one of the most popular, most recognized, most covered songwriters in the world. In 1990, he and the Holland Brothers were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and with good reason.
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About Beau Dozier => Lamont Dozier: Wow! God! You know, I don t think I d get much now. The statute of limitations is � they won t pay me. Josh Kun: Well you know, Madonna is always reinventing herself, so maybe the contracts keep getting reinvented. You never know. Lamont Dozier: You know, that s something though.
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?
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Lamont Dozier: No, I really felt that if he had the gift or the calling, I was not going to discourage that. Because I don t think I ever had what you d call the gift or the calling. I just sort of worked at it and worked. When I was a little kid about nine-years-old, I had a little red wagon. Back east in Detroit.
Lamont Dozier: I ve got a great title and idea. Brian Holland just happened to be at the piano�he was just playing�and I said, man, you know that title I told you I have, stop in the name of love? He said, yes. And that s how a lot of those ideas came about.( Beau Dozier)
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It s just such a rich feeling and I listen to it all the time and it s one of my favorite records. And that s great. Then I started listening to all that stuff and I thought, Wow! this is crazy. One day I was watching a skateboard movie � I wanted to skateboard and I was never really good at it. The movie was called Gleaming the Cube, with Christian Slater, and he s hiding in the backseat of a car while a Korean dude s getting killed. And they re playing a Korean version of �Same Old Song� and that was crazy!
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