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About
Known for longtime collaboration with Kenneth Gamble on I'm Gonna Make You Love Me, If You Don't Know Me By Now, and many other hit songs.
Before Fame
He would record himself on arcade recording machines and used to perform with doo-wop groups on street corners.
Trivia
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1995.
Family Life
He fathered two children with former wife Juanita.
Associated With
He collaborated with such artists as Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield, and Jerry Ross.
