Songwriterobit: Norman Whitfield
Motown songwriter and producer Norman Whitfield has died.
Co-writing with Barrett Strong, Whitfield provided a rockier counterpoint to the songs provided by the label's other in-house team, Holland-Dozier-Holland and often took a political stance - Edwin Starr's War and The Temptation's Ball Of Confusion, as examples.
Whitfield and Strong shared a Grammy in 1972 (Best Song for Papa Was A Rolling Stone); Norman won in his own right four years later when his score for Car Wash pleased the judges.
More than a songwriter, Whitfield also produced many of the songs he wrote or co-wrote: he was behind the desk when Marvin Gaye sang I Heard It Through The Grapevine.
Whitfield died at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles yesterday. The 76 year-old had been in poor health for a while. In a sad twist, Barrett Strong is also hospitalised at the moment, recovering from a stroke in Detroit.
3 comments:
68 year old not 76
I'll be listening to a lot of early 70's temptations stuff today I feel
A legend, RIP
Will also be putting on my "Norman Whitfield Sessions" album on in respect for the great man.
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