You may not have heard of Barrett Strong, but his best known song was probably "Money (That's What I Want)" [Motown's first hit single, which he didn't write].
He also wrote, alongside Norman Whitfield, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Marvin Gaye), "Ball of Confusion", "Just My Imagination", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" (The Temptations), and "War" (Edwin Starr), among other
Strong's songs have been sampled or covered by everyone from Tupac to Tom Jones.
tribeoftheliver OP t1_j6kk0d0 wrote
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That's right, they wrote "Wherever I Lay My Hat" alongside Marvin Gaye (who did not write "Grapevine").