NICK ZESSES Motown songwriter

[jsmith]

Anyone here know much about Nick ?
He co-wrote one of my fave songs [[TIME WILL PASS YOU BY) with his co-composer Dino Fekaris & the just passed John Rhys.
I note from looking on Discogs that he wrote songs recorded by the likes of Rare Earth, Art & Honey, PJ, the Supremes, Temptations, 4 Tops, David Ruffin, Matrix, Thelma Houston, Edwin Starr, Martha Reeves & V's, Commodores & more.
Until recently he hadn't even appeared on my radar as a Motown guy. Just shows that I can't have been paying enough attention.
Seems he started out as a recording artist himself, as part of a duo with Dino Fekaris ... 20982

[jsmith]

Written & Produced by Nick & Dino ... 20984

[mysterysinger]

Take a look at this previous discussion ...
https://soulfuldetroit.com/showthread.php?29153-Zessus-and-Fekaris&highlight=nick+zesses

[marybrewster]

Nick Zesses was born January 20, 1945 in Dearborn, MI. He graduated from Fordson High School in 1963, and later relocated to California. He passed June 24, 2006.

[jsmith]

Mysterysinger, on that thread there's loads of info on the songs they wrote [[mainly the Motown ones). But nothing at all about the pair, how they got with Motown or what they were like to work with.

[snakepit]

Sky TV occasionally show a documentary on the history of Gloria Gaynor's " I will survive" and it includes a lengthy interview with Dino Fekaris

[jsmith]

Guess it's not this BBC show ...
I'll listen to this anyway to see if Dino is included in it.
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[jsmith]

Seems Dino wrote the lyrics to *I Will Survive" to get back at Motown for letting him go ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhez2nqmnC4

[snakepit]

It may that BBC show...sorry for any confusion.

[jsmith]

Another biggie from the pair ... 21051

[mysterysinger]

And there's some more information on the Rare Earth Forum which you may already have seen. https://rareearthworld.activeboard.com/t9846550/nick-zesses-and-dino-fekaris/

[mysterysinger]

Here they are on the cover of the Matrix album - I have this on CD and love their version of "Fire and Rain"

https://www.discogs.com/master/518908-Matrix-Matrix/image/SW1hZ2U6OTU4NzQ0NTY=