Out Here On My Own (Remastered) Lamont Dozier

Album info

Album-Release:
1973

HRA-Release:
12.11.2014

Label: Geffen Records

Genre: R&B

Subgenre: Soul

Artist: Lamont Dozier

Composer: Althea King, McKinley Jackson, James Reddick

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  • 1 Breaking Out All Over 05:03
  • 2 Don't Want Nobody To Come Between Us 04:19
  • 3 Let Me Make Love To You 05:54
  • 4 Fish Ain't Bitin' 04:22
  • 5 Interlude 01:30
  • 6 Trying To Hold On To My Woman 05:58
  • 7 Take Off Your Make Up 04:59
  • 8 Out Here On My Own 04:54
  • Total Runtime 36:59

Info for Out Here On My Own (Remastered)

Fantastic soul from Lamont Dozier – his first LP as a solo artist, and one of the best debuts of the 70s! The record has a quality that's impossible to describe accurately – but it's kind of a post-Motown full-on approach to soul that mixes strings, piano, and that wall of sound groove that was one of Dozier's biggest contributions to the Motor City.

Surprisingly, the album's produced by McKinley Jackson – leader of The Politicians, who provided regular backing for Dozier's HDH productions of the time. The real strength, though, is Dozier's voice – which is produced here in a compressed way that brings up the better raspy qualities of his style, juxtaposing them with the tightness of the arrangements in a mode that's similar to Bobby Womack's work of the time. However, Dozier's songwriting is way way better than Womack's by this point – and the album's filled with anthemic soul cuts like 'Fish Aint' Bitin', 'Out Here On My Own', 'Take Off Your Make Up', 'Trying To Hold Onto My Woman', and 'Let Me Make Love To You'

Lamont Dozier, vocals
McKinley Jackson, piano
Ernest Vantrease, piano
Greg Poree, guitar
Ray Parker Jr., guitar
Anthony Ortega, horns
Ernest Green, horns
Ernie Watts, horns
Fred Jackson, horns
John DaVersa, horns
John Kelson, horns
Jules Jacob, horns
Art Maebe, French Horn
Vincent DeRosa, French Horn
Gayle Levant, harp
Stella Castellucci, harp
Bud Brisbois, trumpet
Oliver Mitchell, trumpet
Oscar Brashear, trumpet
Warren Roché, trumpet
George Bohanon, trombone
Ray Parker Jr., bass
Ron Brown, bass
Tony Newton, bass
Ed Greene, drums
Zachary Frazier, drums
Zachary Slatter, drums
King Errisson, percussion
Carolyn Willis, background vocals
Jesse Kirkland, background vocals
Joseph Green, background vocals
Julia Waters, background vocals
Maxine Waters, background vocals
Oren Waters, background vocals
Christine Ermacoff, cello
Douglas Davis, cello
Gloria Strassner, cello
Jesse Ehrlich, cello
Joseph Ditullio, cello
Allan Harshman, viola
Harry Hyams, viola
Milton Thomas, viola
Philip Goldberg, viola

Produced by McKinley Jackson

Digitally remastered


Lamont Dozier
(Lamont Herbert Dozier, 16. Juni 1941 – 8. August 2022), bildete zusammen mit Brian und Eddie Holland eines der bedeutendsten Songwriter-Teams der 1960er. Als Hauskomponisten des Motown-Labels schrieben sie unter anderem für The Supremes, Martha Reeves, Marvin Gaye und The Four Tops. Zu ihren größten Hits zählen „Heatwave“, „Stop! In The Name Of Love“, „You Keep Me Hanging On“ und „It's The Same Old Song“.

Bevor Dozier sich mit den Holland-Brüdern zusammen tat unternahm er einige erfolglose Versuche, eine Karriere als Solokünstler zu starten. 1962 begannen Holland-Dozier-Holland ihre gemeinsame Arbeit. Dozier und Brian Holland kümmerten sich in der Regel um Komposition und Produktion, während Eddie für Texte und Gesangsarrangements zuständig war. 1963 begann mit Stücken für Martha & The Vandellas eine Hitserie, die ihnen 14 US-Nummer-eins-Hits bescheren sollte.

1968 stieg Dozier aus dem Erfolgsteam aus und begann sich wieder auf seine Karriere als Solokünstler zu konzentrieren. Auch als Performer konnte er seine Hitserie mit Songs wie „Fish Ain't Bitin'“ (1977), „Back To My Roots“ (1977) und „Trying To Hold On To My Woman“ (1974) fortsetzen. 1984 hatte Alyson Moyet mit der Dozier-Komposition „Invisible“ einen großen Hit, 1988 schrieb Dozier zusammen mit Phil Collins den Song „Two Hearts“ für die Filmkomödie „Buster“. Außerdem gründete er mit seinen Songwriterkollegen nach dem Ausstieg bei Motown die Labels Invictus und Hot Wax. Sein letztes Album „Reimagination“ umfasste Unplugged-Aufnahmen einiger der größten Hits Doziers und erschien 2018.



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