R. Dean Taylor

Singer/songwriter/producer R. Dean Taylor was one of the lesser-known players in the Motown story, but an important and underrated figure all the same. After first proving his mettle as a chart-topping staff songwriter, his own single, "Indiana Wants Me," was a Top Five smash in 1970, becoming one of the label's first major crossover hits performed by a white artist. Subsequent singles and albums like 1975's LA Sunset followed, and Taylor had more success in the U.K. than in the States throughout the '70s. Born Richard Dean Taylor in Toronto in 1939, he began his singing car...