March 26, 201312 yr Well posted Gene Right under the Radar over here a true giant of the Motown Sound and Corporation RIP DEKE
May 3, 201312 yr surprised that little mentioned here about deke rip born dennis lussier 1944 father a Hollywood script writer. stared in 62 film called Eegah through dads connections played a member of a rock n roll band. played and wrote tunes with Debbie Dean, first white motown act 66 dean introduced him to gordy he signed him as writer, producer The Clan, as gordy named them were R dean taylor, pam sawyer and frank Wilson wrote love child 68, also im livin in shame with hank cosby + the clan love child followed broke with the clan 69 gordy teamed Richards with alphonzo mizell and Freddie perren plus gordy himself became known as The corporation Jackson five of course took the world on and won corporation was split up in 72 deke continued work with Jackson five and d ross and wrote touch me in the morning, produced the album for ross Everything Is Everything with hal davis 70- a great piece of work with a couple of interesting uptempo tracks included left motown in 75 to start business selling vintage film posters re-emerged to work on archive motown releases, of note come and get it-rare pearls 2012 would iove to hear info about the Debbie dean years if anyone has it to hand desserves more than a cursory RIP for us I think survived by a wife Joan died of cancer aged 68 love to family etc
May 3, 201312 yr Sad news, Deke was a very talented writer / arranger / producer... 'Love Child', 'I'm Still Waiting' etc. Paul
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