Ivy George Hunter / Mickey Stevenson

Detroit songwriter/producer/singer George Ivy Hunter (who was best known as Ivy Jo Hunter) teamed with Motown a&r director William “Mickey” Stevenson in co-writing some of the greatest songs to come out of the Motown hit factory. Among their most memorable compositions were Martha & the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Street” and the Four Tops’ “Ask the Lonely.” Hunter and Stevenson also found songwriting success independent of each other, with Hunter contributing to Francis Nero’s “Footsteps Keep Following Me” and Stevenson co-writing Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels’ “Devil with the Blue Dress On.”

Key songs in the Hunter-Stevenson catalog include “Ask the Lonely,” “Beechwood 4-5789,” “Dancing in the Street,” “Danger- Heartbreak Dead Ahead” and “Wild One.”

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