Fay Hale

US songwriter. She joined in late 1961 as an assistant to Loucye Wakefield, the Gordy sister (Wakefield was her married name) who first oversaw sales, billing, collections and manufacturing for the company. Both women had previously toiled together at the U.S. Army Reserves in Michigan, buying food and other supplies “for Nike missile sites, for the National Guard, that kind of thing,” Fay revealed years later. She also earned Motown creative credits, working with Amos Milburn, Little Stevie Wonder and Andre Williams, among others. In 1966, Fay moved to California, helping Shelly Berger to run and expand Motown’s West Coast activities. By 1980, she was “head of processing,” a measure of how corporate the business had become – and how far it had travelled since a stubborn kind of fellow scored his first success. "Mojo Hannah" originally credited to Andre Williams (2).