Dozier came up with some tracks, and he flew to the Buster set in Acapulco to play them for Collins. They’re both pretty bad.Ī year later, Collins had the idea for Dozier to do the whole Buster soundtrack, and he specifically asked Dozier to try writing some Motown-style songs. Two Dozier-written songs, “ Run” and “ Hung Up On Your Love,” appeared on August, though neither one became a single.
Clapton and Collins started recording them right away. Collins was producing his friend Clapton’s 1986 album August, and Dozier brought a couple of songs over to the studio. Dozier and Collins became acquaintances after that backstage encounter, and Collins eventually asked Dozier if he had any songs for Eric Clapton. In any case, Phil Collins’ whole overbearing fanboy act got Dozier a chance to work on some new music. Walker & The All Stars’ H-D-H-written 1966 single “(I’m A) Road Runner” so closely that the Hollands and Dozier got retroactive songwriting credits. In 1987, Kim Wilde got to #1 with her version of the Supremes’ “ You Keep Me Hangin’ On.” A year later, Steve Winwood topped the Hot 100 with “ Roll With It,” a song that mirrored Jr. Without having to write any new music, Dozier had his name on two #1 hits in the late ’80s. Still, those Holland-Dozier-Holland songs never left the general consciousness. (Dozier’s highest-charting single, 1974’s “ Trying To Hold On To My Woman,” peaked at #15.) Mostly, though, Dozier’s post-Motown career was defined by legal battles over past royalties, not by new hits. Dozier broke away from the Holland brothers in 1973, and he had a run as a solo artist. Hot Wax and Invictus, the other label that they started, never truly caught on. The trio started Hot Wax Records, which had a #1 hit in 1971 with the Honey Cone’s “ Want Ads,” but H-D-H didn’t write that one. He and the two Holland brothers had split from Motown in 1968, and they’d had limited success launching their own new labels. Maybe Dozier just couldn’t keep up.ĭozier wasn’t exactly in the pop mainstream in 1988. 1 Hits, Dozier describes the encounter: “Phil turned around and literally ran and jumped on me, put his arms around me - which took me by surprise, because Tony hadn’t told me anything about Phil liking my music.” You would think that Lamont Dozier would’ve known that Collins had a hit with “You Can’t Hurry Love,” but by that point, a lot of people were covering those Holland-Dozier-Holland singles. Unfortunately, “Two Hearts” was the best he could do.Ī while later, the Atlantic Records exec Tony Mandich took Dozier to a Collins show, and he introduced Dozier to Collins. In interviews, Collins said that it was a dream to work with a legend like Dozier. To properly evoke that feeling, Collins worked with the great Motown songwriter Lamont Dozier, who’d been one third of the unstoppable Holland-Dozier-Holland team and who’d thus been partially responsible for an absurd number of Supremes and Four Tops hits. The second of those big Buster hits was Collins’ attempt to make something that Motown might’ve released at its peak. Like so many other boomer hitmakers in the ’80s, Collins was in love with the sound of Motown. For the first of those Buster hits, Collins covered the Mindbenders’ 1965 hit “ A Groovy Kind Of Love.” For the second, Collins merely did his level best to evoke the sound of the early ’60s.
Collins was an incorrigible nostalgist cornball, and the urge to make ’60s-type music was one of the prime reasons that he ended up recording songs for the movie. Buster was a tremendous flop, especially in the US, but its soundtrack still spun off two #1 hits.īuster was a ’60s period piece, and Collins wanted to make sure that the music fit with that time. He ended up recording a bunch of songs for Buster, and those songs presumably made a whole lot more money than the film itself. The people at MGM were presumably not too excited to learn that this pop star they’d cast had decided that he wanted to focus on his acting and that he’d be handing off soundtrack responsibilities to someone else. Collins, who hadn’t acted in a feature film since his child-actor days in the ’60s, played the lead in Buster, the British biopic about one of the guys behind the Great Train Robbery.
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Phil Collins didn’t want to do the music for his movie Buster. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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