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They re just dancing and having fun and it evokes a fun spirit and that s what it is. But sometimes when you want to hear a real record � there s artists that, again, you ll have an organic thing with and you ll have a song with changes and it ll keep growing and it ll be a big metamorphosis. It really just depends on who the artist is. I think it s 50/50, it s equal. Josh Kun: I thank you both for being here. Thank all of you for coming today. Lamont Dozier: Thank you.( Music Beau Dozier)

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Beau Dozier => Beau Dozier: Again, it really depends on who the artist is and where you re trying to put the song. If you want to put the song in the club, then you re going to have an MD record and it s going to be kind of drum-driven. It might have a sample, but most of the audience isn t even really listening to the song or trying to take some meaning from it.

It s just such a rich feeling and I listen to it all the time and it s one of my favorite records. And that s great. Then I started listening to all that stuff and I thought, Wow! this is crazy. One day I was watching a skateboard movie � I wanted to skateboard and I was never really good at it. The movie was called Gleaming the Cube, with Christian Slater, and he s hiding in the backseat of a car while a Korean dude s getting killed. And they re playing a Korean version of �Same Old Song� and that was crazy!

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Beau Dozier: I feel like it really depends on the project that you re working on, because sometimes you get in with a band and you want it to be organic. You get a bunch of players together and you chart out your song and jam like they used to do back then. Sometimes there s one guy sitting at a computer that has all these sample libraries and everything. But look at Amy Winehouse. She can go in and get that whole sound, with the exact same technique like it s always been. It stays around. It just really depends on who the artist is.

But it s not all about the Motown days with Lamont and for us today. Holland-Dozier-Holland started their own labels Invictus and Hot Wax and then Lamont emerged as a solo artist and is still to this day singing and writing and producing. His solo albums from the 1970s are among the most sampled within the world of hip hop by everyone from Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac, to Three 6 Mafia, Mary J. Blige, Nas, Usher and even Linkin Park.

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Beau Dozier: Well, the thing is, yes and no. When I was growing up, my dad had a bunch of solo records. I remember he had a song called �Fly Away Little Bird� and I used to put it on and start crying. I was threeyears- old.

Unidentified Audience Member: The picture will never change. Lamont Dozier: Yes, she thought that was me. That wasn t me. But I mean, that s a girl. She was a model, a black model back in the �70s. Yes, there s some nice songs on that. Unidentified Audience Member: I wanted to ask you: Drew and I are both pretty involved in the Detroit hip hop community and I wanted to know what you think it was about the 1960s that made Motown so accessible and pushed it so far out into the world?

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Beau Dozier songwriter => I m particularly pleased, as I think you all will be, by this event bringing together parents and children. Part of this is the soundtrack of my childhood and it may be the soundtrack of some of the younger folk s childhoods here as well. This is a terrific opportunity to make clear that communication is more than the news, it s more than television, it s more than media. It s the cultural environment that we all live in. And it was for that reason that I was delighted, as were my colleagues, when we recruited last year a new member of our faculty, Josh Kun, who is perfectly suited to study, research, teach and share with us the importance of sound and music as a shaper of culture.

Lamont Dozier: Yes, get my red wagon and run away! So I didn t take the lessons, never took any lessons, but I just really learned to play by ear and listen, just listen and play by ear, listen to everything I could get my hands on, music, films and stuff like that. What I m trying to say is music was the biggest thing in our house.( Beau Dozier songwriter)

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When they re translating his records into all these other languages, I thought, okay, maybe I ll do his thing. Josh Kun: But as Beau started writing and producing and doing his own thing, the pop musical landscape obviously was quite different than it was when you started. Are there things about his writing and his contemporaries that have actually started to influence you or that have affected you in some way?

So she had a little home beauty shop. I was out there one day, washing my red wagon and getting ready to go. And my grandfather, as my grandmother s customers were coming in to have their hair done, he would be sitting out in the garden, sort of a flirt with the women, how you do, sugar pie? How you doing this evening?

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When they re translating his records into all these other languages, I thought, okay, maybe I ll do his thing. Josh Kun: But as Beau started writing and producing and doing his own thing, the pop musical landscape obviously was quite different than it was when you started. Are there things about his writing and his contemporaries that have actually started to influence you or that have affected you in some way?

Beau Dozier: Really, it depends on who you re working with. As a matter of fact, I had heard that record, not �Africa,� but I knew the sample. I always had it in my head, but I never knew who did it. I wanted to use it. And my friend, Justin, came over and said sample one of these and he played it. I was like, Wow! I ve been trying to sample this for three or four years and do the record.

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Beau Dozier profile => Lamont Dozier: No, I really felt that if he had the gift or the calling, I was not going to discourage that. Because I don t think I ever had what you d call the gift or the calling. I just sort of worked at it and worked. When I was a little kid about nine-years-old, I had a little red wagon. Back east in Detroit.

But before that, I really didn t think anything was abnormal. It was, oh, there s a bunch of guys in the house and they would go off and sometimes Dad would take me into the studio. I would go and play on their instruments and try not to break the stuff. It was fun, though. Josh Kun: So often parents don t want their children to go into the same field that they re in. Did you ever think, I hope he doesn t become a musician?

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Using the old colloquiums of the South, that s the way he talked. How you doing, sugar pie? And that s what he would say to the women as they came in there. And I was washing my wagon and just watching him, flirting and stuff with these women as they came in to get their hair done. That stayed with me here 20 years later, I guess. And I was sitting at the piano� [Singing] �Sugar pie, honey bunch�� thinking about him, how he used to talk. Oh, boy. Your daddy s flirting with these women. Josh Kun: The best songs come from these stories.

Unidentified Audience Member: You talk about trying to write songs that were for everybody, but my sense is a lot of musicians today are just more fragmented. My question, Beau � and it sounds like from what I heard today you ve picked up a lot of your dad s � well, I would never think of a Toto song going with JoJo � is it your sense today that musicians are geared more towards fragmented types of audiences or are there musicians who are trying to connect with songs for everybody?( Beau Dozier)

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It hurt me bad when he said, what is this crap? You know what I mean? He was doing an interview. Now I love Richard Rodgers, right? And when he said that, I was having a lot of success at the time at Motown. And they just happened to be talking about one of the Motown songs and he said something about this mess and dah, dah, dah. He really cut me to the quick.

He started playing this thing, I said, Barbara, you better come and listen to this! He had just heard it one time, a little bit of it and started playing. I said I think we ve got somebody with a gift in this house. Josh Kun: You re the kind of kid I hated when I was little. I couldn t play anything.

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About Beau Dozier => Either I would do that or I would go to the Rialto Theater, which was right up the street from where I lived, and I would sit there and watch these musicals of the �50s over and over. My Fair Lady. Man, I must have seen that thing 30,000 times or something, you know. I d sit up right in the front row.

Beau Dozier: I feel like it really depends on the project that you re working on, because sometimes you get in with a band and you want it to be organic. You get a bunch of players together and you chart out your song and jam like they used to do back then. Sometimes there s one guy sitting at a computer that has all these sample libraries and everything. But look at Amy Winehouse. She can go in and get that whole sound, with the exact same technique like it s always been. It stays around. It just really depends on who the artist is.

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Beau Dozier: Yes, I was more into the stuff from his solo records. I didn t really get influenced by the Motown stuff until I think we were at a BMI awards one night. He gets a BMI award basically every single time. And then �Baby, I Need Your Loving� comes on and I m like, Wow, that s a beautiful record. There s something about the strings in it.

And a song as simple as �Where Did Our Love Go,� my first number one hit by the Supremes, had that kind of a mood in it. And I was [Singing] Baby, baby, baby. Of course you have to have some background: There was snow up to here in Detroit. It was cold and my girlfriend had dumped me for my best friend and, you know, all the proppings that help write the song.

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Beau Dozier: And I think with any type of music, when you try to get rid of it, it only makes the audience rebel and go hard for it. They tried to do it with rap. There was a point in time, even four or five years ago, when KISSFM wouldn t play rap. There d be a rap bridge and they would take the rap bridge out! They wouldn t play rap. Until rap songs started being number one. It s like, dude, you guys kind of have to play it. Lamont Dozier: Yes.

Between Father and Son: Music and Creativity Across the Generations Larry Gross: I d like to welcome you all to the Annenberg School. I m Larry Gross. I m the director of the School of Communication. That gives me the right to open this event, which is an honor and a pleasure. This event, as you can see, has many sponsors, because it s such an impressive event that lots of people wanted to claim authorship.( Beau Dozier music)

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Info about Beau Dozier => They re just dancing and having fun and it evokes a fun spirit and that s what it is. But sometimes when you want to hear a real record � there s artists that, again, you ll have an organic thing with and you ll have a song with changes and it ll keep growing and it ll be a big metamorphosis. It really just depends on who the artist is. I think it s 50/50, it s equal. Josh Kun: I thank you both for being here. Thank all of you for coming today. Lamont Dozier: Thank you.

He s been responsible for a record-setting string of million-selling songs, everything from � and hopefully you recognize some of these tunes - [�Where Did Our Love Go?� by The Supremes] You can sing along. [�You Keep Me Hangin On� by The Supremes] Or one of the best descriptions of what love is when it hits us: [�Heat Wave� by Martha and the Vandellas] Or [�How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You� by Marvin Gaye] Or even more recently, his work with Phil Collins on this song: [�Two Hearts� by Phil Collins]

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Josh Kun: What s interesting is one of the hottest albums in the country right now is the one I mentioned a little earlier, Mark Ronson s album called Version. And the whole record is really an homage to the 1960s Motown and late �60s- 70s Stax sound, with a live band, real organic, big horns. There seems to be a return in the whole Amy Winehouse record, and Sharon Jones � it seems like everybody, even within hip hop and R&B communities who are used to working with Pro Tools and sample libraries, is throwing it out the window and trying to get back to the live sound.

I ll get them in here to do this song and I don t have to pay for it. It won t be stuck on me. So, sure enough, they came in. And what Gladys Horton did, she went around and told the girls, they got a song they trying to pedal on you, don t you go for it, or else y all girls will never have anything if you go for this.

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Beau Dozier: Again, it really depends on who the artist is and where you re trying to put the song. If you want to put the song in the club, then you re going to have an MD record and it s going to be kind of drum-driven. It might have a sample, but most of the audience isn t even really listening to the song or trying to take some meaning from it.

Other times you ll sit at the piano and come up with something like a chord progression and a melody. Or a lot of times for me, I ll be driving � well, not anymore. But I ll be driving � talk about that another time � you ll be driving and a melody will come into your head. It usually starts like that. And I ll get on my cell phone and call my voicemail and start singing the melody into the phone.

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About Beau Dozier music => So she had a little home beauty shop. I was out there one day, washing my red wagon and getting ready to go. And my grandfather, as my grandmother s customers were coming in to have their hair done, he would be sitting out in the garden, sort of a flirt with the women, how you do, sugar pie? How you doing this evening?

We went to the Deepak Chopra Center in La Jolla and I had no studio, no computer, no anything and I wrote this whole ballad. I kept hearing this song, the whole thing. I heard the bass line, I heard what the piano was doing, I heard what the strings were doing, the chorus � everything and I sang the whole thing into my voicemail.( Beau Dozier music)

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Beau Dozier: Take someone else s actual recordings and loop it. Unidentified Audience Member: And that s cool? Josh Kun: And often pay for it. Beau Dozier: Oh yes! You pay for it dearly. You start doing records for free at that point. Lamont Dozier: Yes, you have to pay for that. Josh Kun: Last question.

I thought about what I said � cash register, stop in the name of love. And that whole theme came from stop, look and listen, what you told the kids when you cross the street: Stop, look and listen. Stop in the name of love equals number one record for the Supremes. I took it to the guys and said hey, I think I ve got another one. Josh Kun: That s great.

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You know, some kids like to sit in the front row. Here I am, nine or 10-yearsold, just watching My Fair Lady. Just watching. And it made me feel like I was in the movie with the people, you know, and loving it. But what it did, really, was give me such a charge. I knew that I wanted to be somehow or other in the entertainment field, music or movies. So with my records and my memories of these movies, I sort of forged out a career. I started doing this on the piano and � Josh Kun: You started very young as well, around 10 or so, no?

Using the old colloquiums of the South, that s the way he talked. How you doing, sugar pie? And that s what he would say to the women as they came in there. And I was washing my wagon and just watching him, flirting and stuff with these women as they came in to get their hair done. That stayed with me here 20 years later, I guess. And I was sitting at the piano� [Singing] �Sugar pie, honey bunch�� thinking about him, how he used to talk. Oh, boy. Your daddy s flirting with these women. Josh Kun: The best songs come from these stories.

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Beau Dozier songwriter => Living with my grandmother, we used to play music, too, so it was always around. And my grandmother told me to go and join the church, so I did and I had to go to choir rehearsals on Thursdays and be there every Sunday morning. So all of that singing and all that music just filled me and filled our house and really got me motivated into wanting to be somebody in the music business or entertainment field.

And if they re good songs, they arrive like kind of musical balms, in that they are like surprise gifts from some magical person called a songwriter, a magical person called a musician, who pulls melodies and words and harmonies, seemingly from straight out of the air and in doing so, changes our lives forever without us knowing about it at first. They are, as Billy Bragg very wisely said in that song, here to make everything okay for us.

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Lamont Dozier: Well, we did a thing a year and a half ago or so, for Joss Stone,�Spoiled.� When they asked me to come up with something for Joss Stone, I said, well, how old is she? She s 15 to 16-years-old. You can t make the song too suggestive. She s only 16. So you have to be very careful about what you give a young girl like that to sing. So I said, 16, what can I think about, what would I give a 16-year old girl? Right then, my daughter came walking in the room, giving orders to the household about what she don t want and she don t like. And I said, there it is:

Lamont Dozier: Yes, it has. You know, when he first started bringing home some of his rap friends, I said, what in the world? A lot of people say I m from the old school. So when he and his friends were talking and rapping, I was trying to figure out what they were saying: What is this mess? You know? And he said, Dad, you have to understand. This is the new thing. I said, the new what? I was really totally down on it.( About Beau Dozier songwriter)

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In fact, we ll get at that; we ll hear that one in a second. And if you remember Joss Stone s GAP ads from a little bit back, that was all Beau s work on those songs. I know his family is really proud of him. I m really happy that he s here and I m thrilled that both of you are here to have this conversation.

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