{"id":9363,"date":"2011-08-25T14:18:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T18:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2011-08-25T14:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T18:05:20","slug":"songwriter-nick-ashford-dies-had-throat-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9363","title":{"rendered":"Songwriter Nick Ashford Dies; Had Throat Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8212; <strong>Nick Ashford<\/strong>, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo <strong>Ashford &amp; Simpson<\/strong> died Monday at age 70, his former publicist said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashford<\/strong>, who along with wife, <strong>Valerie Simpson<\/strong> wrote some of Motown&#8217;s biggest hits, died in a New York City hospital. He had been suffering from throat cancer and had undergone radiation treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Though they had some of their greatest success at Motown with classics like &#8220;<em>Ain&#8217;t No Mountain High Enough<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Reach Out And Touch Somebody&#8217;s Hand<\/em>&#8221; by <strong>Diana Ross<\/strong> and &#8220;<em>You&#8217;re All I Need To Get By<\/em>&#8221; by <strong>Marvin Gaye<\/strong> and <strong>Tammi Terrell<\/strong>, <strong>Ashford &amp; Simpson<\/strong> also created anthems for others, like &#8220;I<em>&#8216;m Every Woman<\/em>&#8221; by <strong>Chaka Khan<\/strong> (and later remade by <strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford &amp; Simpson died Monday at age 70, his former publicist said. Ashford, who along with wife, Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motown&#8217;s biggest hits, died in a New York City hospital. He had been suffering from throat cancer and had undergone radiation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}