Might 30, 2025
Cosby, who died in 2002, co-wrote and co-produced three No. 1 hits for Motown’s most interesting
Songwriter Hank Cosby, recognized for his work with Motown, and for supplying Stevie Marvel and lots of different artists with many songs all through his profession, has an exhibit honoring him and his work on the Motown Museum in Detroit.
In accordance with the Detroit Free Press, the exhibit, “Henry ‘Hank’ Cosby: Tribute to an Authentic Funk Brother,” opened Might 22. The 2-wall exhibit showcases Cosby’s life ranging from his childhood days in Detroit’s Black Backside and through his time at Northern Excessive Faculty, the place he began to reinforce his expertise on the tenor saxophone. He performed with jazz legend Cannonball Adderley whereas each have been enlisted in the US Military in the course of the Korean Warfare within the early Nineteen Fifties.
Throughout his profession, Cosby, who died in 2002, co-wrote and/or co-produced three No. 1 information: Fingertips by Stevie Marvel in 1963, Love Little one by The Supremes in 1968, and The Tears of a Clown by The Miracles in 1968.
His spouse, Pat Cosby, was ecstatic to see the exhibit as she thought in regards to the time she approached the museum over 20 years in the past, after her husband died, in hopes of accumulating any memorabilia, and so they didn’t even know who he was, regardless of all his contributions.
“I’m desirous about when he handed away, and we got here to the museum hoping to get photos, and no person knew who he was. They didn’t acknowledge his identify,” Cosby mentioned.
Now, with delight for the exhibiting of his work, she mentioned, “These days are over.”
Pat has labored carefully with the museum since final fall to deliver this challenge to fruition. She labored with the museum’s affiliate curator, Kemuel Benyehudah, to get the gadgets for the exhibit and to deliver his story to life.
She met her husband whereas working at Motown Information’ tape library. In 1962, she agreed to exit with him after he pursued her.
“Hank would come by, lean over the Dutch door, and say candy stuff,” she mentioned. Pat acknowledged that when planning for a date, she requested him what he’d love to do, and she or he mentioned his response was, “I’d prefer to make you cheerful the remainder of your life.”
“He stored his promise,” Cosby mentioned.
Anybody thinking about attending the exhibit can contact the museum for extra data.