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Mar 11, 1930 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 14 Aug 1996 (aged 66)
American songwriter
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About Al Cleveland
- Al Cleveland (born Alfred W.
- Cleveland, March 11, 1930 – August 14, 1996) was an American songwriter for the Motown label.
- Among his most popular co-compositions are 1967's "I Second That Emotion" and 1969's "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" performed by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and 1971's "What's Going On" performed by Marvin Gaye.Cleveland was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, to Alfred W.
- and Dorothy Cleveland.
- Al has two sisters, Edna Grate and Mamie Jett, as well as one brother, Robert Cleveland.
- His sons Alfred D Cleveland and Theodore Mills survive him. He had a long and distinguished writing career, initially for New York artists on the Scepter/Wand labels such as Dionne Warwick(e) and Tommy Hunt, as well as Gene Pitney before moving to Motown, where he provided songs for Smokey & The Miracles, the Marvelettes, David Ruffin, the Four Tops and Chuck Jackson before hitting the big time with a co-authorship of Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On?" and "Save the Children." In later years, he produced Native American music.
- He died of heart disease in Las Vegas at the age of 66.
