From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

Martha and the Vandellas – Heat Wave (1963) The intensity of Heat Wave never ages, and

From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

 its message of love as an inescapable blend of agony and ecstasy would be repeated on many 

From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

of Holland-Dozier-Holland’s greatest recordings. It proved too raw for British ears in 1963, 

From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

though the Who covered it early on. The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian thought it 

From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

was so good he simply played the backing track at double speed and came up with his own classic,

From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

Do You Believe In Magic? The Four Tops – Reach Out I’ll Be There (1966) More popular 

From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

in Britain than the US, where the Temptations were always Motown’s premier male group, 

From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

the Four Tops cut HDH’s most groundbreaking material. After the galloping hooves and 

From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

piccolos on the intro, singer Levi Stubbs let fly with a vocal that mixed Bob Dylan and 

From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

black pride. The edgy minor chords never relent, which makes its joyousness all the