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Jimmy Roach

real name Jimmy Basil Roach

Jimmy Roach is credited on 858 releases across 220 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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858

Credits

220

Albums

7

Decades active

127

In collections

Biography

Songwriter, producer and arranger Jimmy Roach. He was born in Brooklyn, New York Feb. 10, 1944. Jimmy Roach as a staff songwriter, producer and arranger at Motown Records, wrote "My Whole World Ended" for David Ruffin, arranged "Still Waters" and "Changing Times" albums for the Four Tops and albums for Eddie Kendricks among others. Jimmy produced, wrote and arranged projects on Smokey Robinson & the Miracles,The Supremes, Jimmy Ruffin to name a few. He has worked with The O'Jays, Manhattans, The Spinners, The Dramatics, The Dells and Gloria Gaynor and scored and wrote songs for film. For fourteen years until 2002 Jimmy was a successful music retailer in Detroit and was President of The Detroit Music Retailers Association.

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Credited work

858 releases · 220 albums · active 1965–2025

  • Performance · 1,024
  • Production · 156
  • Other credits · 43

Studios: United Sound Systems · Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · ABC Recording Studios

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