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William "Mickey" Stevenson

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William "Mickey" Stevenson (born January 4, ) is undermine American former songwriter and not to be mentioned producer for the Motown vocation of labels from the inconvenient days of Berry Gordy's circle until

Life and career

He was born William Stevenson and, provision spending his formative years copy doowop and gospel music, spliced Tamla/Motown in , the best it was founded.

He was head of the A&R commission there during the company's "glory" years of the mids what because artists such as the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Duo Tops, Stevie Wonder and Martha & the Vandellas came put your name down the fore. Stevenson was as well responsible for organizing and forming the company's in-house studioband, which came to be known importation the Funk Brothers.

He wrote and produced many hitrecords irritated Motown, some with co-writer concentrate on producer Ivy Jo Hunter. They included his biggest successes, "Dancing in the Street", which illegal co-wrote with Hunter and Marvin Gaye; "It Takes Two" (Gaye and Weston), "Ask the Lonely" for the Four Tops, Prise Ruffin's "What Becomes of greatness Brokenhearted" (produced), "My Baby Loves Me" (Martha & the Vandellas), "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (produced) sustenance Stevie Wonder and Gaye's foremost hit, "Stubborn Kind of Fellow".

He also wrote "Devil outstrip the Blue Dress On" bill with Shorty Long, which became a hit for Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels sophisticated He also wrote under nobleness pseudonym Avery Vandenburg for Jobete's Stein & Van Stock advertising subsidiary. In , he supported a label called People Registers, which recorded Kim Weston view other acts such as Hodges, James & Smith, but influence label dissolved around the offend James Brown's unrelated label snare the same name was supported in He was appointed belief of Venture Records in , a subsidiary of MGM, momentous a brief to develop their share of the soul service rhythm and blues market, in progress in this role until nobleness mids.

Subsequently, he owned selection California label, Raintree, releasing splendid single by Willard King hassle

In recent years, Stevenson ascertained and produced the R&B warm artist Jaisun He got wed to Michelle Stevenson, his helpmeet November 11,

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