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Celebrate the legacy of the music of the late 1950s and 60s with a new generation of artists. Includes performances by Alex Byrd, The Best Intentions, The Majors, The Danleers, Charlie Thomas’ Drifters, The Belmonts, Bobby Wilson and Mike Mastellone. Tune in or livestream Sat, Aug. 13 at 5pm on WSIU TV.

Dozier was a key artistic contributor to the flourishing of the “Motown Sound” during the 1960s, which had an enormous impact on global popular culture.

Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” has died. He was 81.

Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced "You Can’t Hurry Love," "Heat Wave" and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 81.

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Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 81. Dozier died “peacefully” Monday at his home near Scottsdale, Arizona, according to…

Lamont Dozier only worked with Holland-Dozier-Holland for just over 10 years, but in that time the three wrote over 400 songs.

The songwriter-producer was behind several chart toppers for The Supremes and other hits that helped make Motown a celebrated record company.

NEW YORK (AP) — Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 81.

Motown songwriter-producer Lamont Dozier has died at age 81.