DETRIOT — Detroit recording artist, songwriter, producer and music executive Robert Louis Gordy Sr. died of natural causes on Friday at his home in Marina del Rey, California. Gordy, younger brother of Motown records founder Berry Gordy, was 91.
Robert Gordy was born in Detroit in 1931 and began his music career in 1958 when he wrote the hit "Everyone Was There" with Berry and performed it on Dick Clark's TV show. He contributed to several hits at Motown, according to a news release from Universal Music Enterprises, which owns Motown.
Gordy also ran the Jobete Music Publishing company, a music publishing affiliate of Motown records. Under his leadership, Jobete Music transitioned from a holder of song copyrights into a "highly profitable international publishing company," the release said.
