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23-483: The words and lyrics to the final score, entitled "Perfect Ending", were written by Lamont Dozier . In 1972, a group of gunmen wearing Richard Nixon Halloween masks steal evidence from a police evidence storage unit, killing several officers in the process. Officer Dennis Meechum is seriously wounded after stabbing one of the robbers. He survives and publishes a book titled Inside Job based on his experience. In 1987, Meechum, who by now has become an acclaimed author and

46-630: A Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television . Collins and Dozier also co-wrote " Loco in Acapulco " for The Four Tops , which is also featured on the Buster Soundtrack . In 1984, Essex , England-born singer Alison Moyet scored a U.S. top-40 hit with the Dozier-penned " Invisible ". Three years later, Dozier cowrote "Infidelity" and "Suffer" with Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall for

69-483: A meeting with Madlock at the latter's oceanfront estate. Cleve storms into the house, and guns down all of Madlock's bodyguards. Cleve then sacrifices his own life to save Holly from Madlock. Meechum arrests Madlock, before comforting a dying Cleve. Cleve reminds Meechum about the book and says "Remember I'm the hero". In the end, it is revealed that Meechum has published the book titled Retribution: The Fall of David Madlock and Kappa International and it has had 28 weeks on

92-437: A meeting with Meechum, and tries to convince him to write a book about his history as a paid assassin for a corporate empire, Kappa International. Cleve intimidates Kappa's founder, David Madlock about Meechum's next book, and promises Meechum to show evidence to back up his claims. They proceed to take trips to New York City first and then to Texas , where Cleve tries to convince Meechum of his history of hits. While they are in

115-466: A much decorated detective, is working on his next novel. He now suffers from writer's block , and is a widowed father raising his daughter, Holly. On a case at the docks in Los Angeles , a suspect runs as Meechum gives chase. A man named Cleve joins the chase. The suspect hides in an overhead crane and attempts to shoot Meechum, but Cleve kills the man, then mysteriously disappears. Cleve arranges

138-498: A number of albums as a performer in his own right, also writing much of the material. The 1977 album, Peddlin' Music on the Side ( Warner Bros. Records ) contained " Going Back to My Roots ", which was later recorded by Odyssey . The earlier Black Bach ( ABC Records ) featured the single "Fish Ain't Bitin ' " (#4 R&B, No. 26 pop). He had his biggest hit with 1974's " Trying to Hold on to My Woman " (ABC), which reached No. 15 on

161-465: A restaurant, Meechum finds out that Cleve was the injured masked gunman that he had stabbed years earlier. Madlock, through his legal representatives, tries to bribe Meechum but fails. When an enforcer tries to steal a manuscript of Meechum's novel and attempts to kill Holly, Cleve intervenes by killing him. Cleve attempts to keep Holly safe by sending her to Meechum's agent, Roberta Gillian. Madlock, however, manages to kidnap Holly. Meechum decides to have

184-835: The comedy film Leonard Part 6 , released the same year. The song was released as a single and entered the United States and United Kingdom music charts, peaked at No. 8 on the Adult Contemporary Tracks , No. 14 on the R&;B chart , No. 85 on the UK Singles , and No. 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 (1987–88). " Without You " was also recorded for the Peabo Bryson album Positive , released in 1988. "Without You" also received two adaptations:

207-458: The British pop-soul band's second album, Men and Women . In 1989, they teamed again to write "You've Got It" and "Turn It Up" for Simply Red's follow-up LP, A New Flame . In 1987, Lamont Dozier composed alone a song for the soundtrack of another film: the song " Without You ", which was recorded as a duet by the R&B singers Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle , to be the love theme from

230-861: The Holland brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2009, he worked on the music for the musical stage version of the 1996 movie The First Wives Club . He also taught credit courses on popular music as an Artist-in-Residence Professor on the faculty at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in 2008. Dozier was married three times and had six children. His first two marriages, to Elizabeth Ann Brown and to Daphne Dumas, both ended in divorce. His third marriage, to Barbara Ullman, lasted from 1980 until her death in 2021. They had three children. Dozier died at his home near Scottsdale, Arizona , on August 8, 2022, at

253-616: The Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States , currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play , single purchases and online streaming . The following year-by-year, week-by-week listings are based on data accrued by Billboard magazine before and after the inception of its Hot 100 popularity chart in August 1958. All data is pooled from record purchases and radio/ jukebox play within

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276-530: The Supremes over the next three years or so. After Holland–Dozier–Holland left Motown in 1968 to form the Invictus and Hot Wax labels, Dozier began recording as an artist on their labels. The most successful song was "Why Can't We Be Lovers" (number 9 Billboard R&B). Dozier departed from Holland–Dozier–Holland in 1973, and was replaced by new arranger-producer Harold Beatty. Dozier went on to record

299-467: The age of 81. As a member of The Romeos As a member of The Voice Masters : As a member of Ty Hunter and The Voice Masters : As La Mont Anthony : As Lamont Dozier and a member of Holland-Dozier (Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland ): List of Billboard number-one singles This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958,

322-406: The bestseller list. Larry Cohen wrote the original script. He was inspired by the film Strangers on a Train (1951) and wrote it with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in mind for the lead roles. The project was in development at a number of studios for years before Orion decided to make it. John Flynn says he substantially rewrote the script which was originally called Hard Cover . Cohen

345-471: The early 1980s to a British audience. Dozier had another number-one hit as a songwriter in the 1980s, joining with Phil Collins to write the song " Two Hearts " for the movie soundtrack for Buster . "Two Hearts" received a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song , tying with " Let the River Run " from Working Girl by Carly Simon ; an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song ; and

368-651: The first was in Portuguese and the second was in Spanish, in 1989 and 1990, respectively. Both adaptations received the title "Amor Dividido" and were recorded by the Brazilian singer Rosana; The Spanish version of "Amor Dividido" was performed as a duet by Rosanah Fienngo (known mononymously as Rosana) with the Mexican singer Emmanuel . He's one of the many writers on Motown: The Musical . Dozier and

391-426: The killer instead of away from him. He recommended the scene be re-cut without shooting extra footage but says he was ignored. Cohen says the film did not perform well financially though he thought "it was a good picture all the way up to the climax. I don’t want to go on about it, but they killed the movie with that conclusion and it’s amazing how you can do that. If they had made that one little cut I suggested, maybe

414-570: The pop chart and No. 4 on the R&;B chart. For the second season of the TV sitcom That's My Mama (ABC, 1975), Dozier wrote and sang the theme song, replacing the first season's instrumental only theme music. In 1981, he scored a beach music hit with "Cool Me Out" and also in that year released the single "Shout About It" from his LP Lamont . This track had considerable airplay on UK soul radio stations as well as being promoted by UK DJ Robbie Vincent in

437-624: The team's musical arranger and producer, while Eddie Holland concentrated mainly on lyrics and vocal production. Along with the Holland Brothers, Dozier followed his work for Motown Records as founder and owner of Invictus Records and Hot Wax Records, producing top-charting hits for acts Freda Payne , Honey Cone , Chairmen of the Board , and 100 Proof Aged in Soul . Dozier recorded a few unsuccessful records for various Detroit labels before

460-454: The trio started working together as a writing and production team for Motown in 1962. They first made their mark the following year with Martha and The Vandellas ' early hits, including "Come and Get These Memories" (number 6 R&B), " Heatwave " (number 1 R&B, number 4 pop), and "Quicksand" (number 8 pop). In 1964, " Where Did Our Love Go " became the first of ten number 1 pop hits which Holland–Dozier–Holland would write and produce for

483-555: The word of mouth would have been a little better and Best Seller could have made some money." Roger Ebert gave the film 1 star out of 4 stars, but Jonathan Rosenbaum called it "first-class action storytelling stripped to its essentials," with Dennehy making "a wonderful straight man for Woods's fascinatingly creepy yet sensitive killer." The film holds a rating of 69% on Rotten Tomatoes from 16 reviews. Lamont Dozier Lamont Herbert Dozier ( / l ə ˈ m ɒ n t ˈ d oʊ ʒ ər / ; June 16, 1941 – August 8, 2022)

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506-631: Was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer from Detroit . He co-wrote and produced 14 US Billboard number-one hits and four number ones in the UK. Dozier was a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland , the songwriting and production team responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas , The Supremes , The Four Tops , and The Isley Brothers . Along with Brian Holland , Dozier served as

529-407: Was happy with the casting of Dennehy and Woods. He later said, "The picture itself turned out to be pretty good with one glaring exception: the ending. Everything was going along great but then, in the last five minutes, they fucked up the whole movie. That is what I mean when I say it [the film] was only partially successful." Cohen's problem was that the climax had Dennehy's daughter running towards

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