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Harvey Fuqua RIP

staxwaxstaxwax 1,474 Posts
edited July 2010 in Strut Central
Another originator has left this sphere



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  • disco_chedisco_che 1,115 Posts
    RIP Harvey Fuqua. Always liked your bands and productions.






  • KineticKinetic 3,739 Posts
    Always associated this guy with the Nite-Liters. All their albums were so good and he arranged damn near everything on all of them.

  • gloomgloom 2,765 Posts
    Kinetic said:
    Always associated this guy with the Nite-Liters. All their albums were so good and he arranged damn near everything on all of them.


    ditto.. worked his magic with the progression into the New Birth as well

    so sad, RIP
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    DAMN
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    RIP
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Didnt he pretty much put Marvin Gaye In the game?
  • staxwaxstaxwax 1,474 Posts
    batmon said:
    Didnt he pretty much put Marvin Gaye In the game?

    Yep - they both married one of Berry Gordy's sisters as well - different ones.
    He got gaye to join the moonglows in the fifties, brought him into the motown fold, where fuqua was head of artist development, produced the tammi terrel duets, and hooked up with Gaye when he was keeping a low profile in Ostende in Belgium to help him and produce Sexual Healing. Gaye referred to him as a surrogate father and stated fuqua 'saved his life'.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Dude 'discovered' Sylvester as well. :woah:
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    RIP
    Great eye, or ear, for talent. Songwriter, producer, singer.

    The Moonglows did a 70s lp called Return Of, it should not be overlooked.

    Did great stuff for a string of labels; Chess, Motown, RCA...
  • fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
    rip



  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,471 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    RIP
    Great eye, or ear, for talent. Songwriter, producer, singer.

    This. Dude was just a great all-around talent and is responsible for so many records I bump to this day. RIP.
  • gloomgloom 2,765 Posts
    DJ_Enki said:
    LaserWolf said:
    RIP
    Great eye, or ear, for talent. Songwriter, producer, singer.

    This. Dude was just a great all-around talent and is responsible for so many records I bump to this day. RIP.

    PLUS! he bagged a gordy sister.
  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    Damn, I wrote about Niteliters earlier this month - http://www.cosmobaker.com/

    RIP Harvey.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    gloom said:
    DJ_Enki said:
    LaserWolf said:
    RIP
    Great eye, or ear, for talent. Songwriter, producer, singer.

    This. Dude was just a great all-around talent and is responsible for so many records I bump to this day. RIP.

    PLUS! he bagged a gordy sister.

    Is this necessarily a good thing?
  • JuniorJunior 4,853 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    RIP
    Great eye, or ear, for talent. Songwriter, producer, singer.

    The Moonglows did a 70s lp called Return Of, it should not be overlooked.

    Absolutely



    RIP.
  • minimini 879 Posts
    R.I.P.



    Etta & Harvey:
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