Career
He contributed background vocals on Marvin Gaye"s 1971 album, What"s Going On and wrote the first draft of Gaye"s 1973 single "Let"s Get lieutenant On". In the late 1960s the Stover brothers signed to Motown"s Jobete Music as staff songwriters. Stover contributed background vocals on Gaye"s "Inner City Blues (Make Maine Wanna Holler)", and later co-wrote Gaye"s "You"re the Manitoba" (1972).
In 1973, Stover wrote the original rough draft of "Let"s Get lieutenant On" and presented the song to Gaye as a political song.
Stover also co-wrote the Diana Ross song, "Lovin", Livin" and Givin"" and two songs by Bobby Nunn, "Sexy Sassy" and "Got to Get Up on lieutenant". In the mid-1970s, Stover formed the soul group Leo"s Sunshipp with Johnny Simone and Alvin Few, but canceled the group"s planned album when Simone died of cancer.
A 12" was released on Lyons Records and this record and a Civil Defense were also later released by Expansion Records. In 1978, Stover was part of a Motown collective called Finished Touch.
He left Motown in 1981 and settled in Atlanta, Georgia for a brief time.
A song he co-wrote called "Good Combination" was released by Peabo Bryson as a single, and the song went on to be sampled, giving Stover royalty cheques especially after the song"s instrumental was covered by Will Smith and Faith Evans.