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Marilyn McLeod (1939 – November 2021) was an American singer-songwriter best-known for writing "Love Hangover" (1976).

Biography

McLeod was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1939 into a musical family – her half-brother Ernie Farrow became a noted jazz performer, and her sister Alice married John Coltrane and recorded many albums as a jazz keyboard player and harpist. She began working as a songwriter for the Jobete publishing company at Motown in 1968. She wrote songs with Johnny Bristol before being teamed with lyricist Pam Sawyer, and the pair co-wrote Diana Ross's 1976 hit "Love Hangover", and the High Inergy hit "You Can't Turn Me Off (in the Middle of Turning Me On)" the following year. In 1982, she co-wrote Jermaine Jackson's hit with Devo, "Let Me Tickle Your Fancy", written with Sawyer, Jermaine Jackson, and Paul Jackson, Jr.. As a recording artist, she released some singles under her own name, and fronted the group Pure Magic.

McLeod left Motown in 1985, and, in the early 1990s, co-wrote several songs for Northern Soul DJ Ian Levine and his Motown revival label Motorcity Records. In 2010 she released the album I Believe In Me, a set of songs co-written with veteran Motown songwriter Janie Bradford.

McLeod died in November 2021, at the age of 82.

Linking in as of 2021

Diana Ross (1976 album), Diana Ross' Greatest Hits, Doctor's Advocate, East Side Story (Emily King album), Eyes on This, Flying Lotus, Gloria Jones, Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection Volume 2 1972–1992, Janie Bradford, Lead Me On (Maxine Nightingale album), List of songs recorded by Kanye West, Live at The Lighthouse (Grant Green album), Looking Back to Yesterday, Love Hangover, MacLeod, Pam Sawyer, Stares and Whispers (album), Steppin' Out (High Inergy album), Still Ghetto, The Boy Is Mine (album), The Undisputed Truth, They Got Amnesia, Turnin' On, You Can't Turn Me Off (In the Middle of Turning Me On)


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