Suave, sophisticated, impossibly romantic Nick Ashford, who, side by side with his wife Valerie Simpson, co-wrote, "'Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Reach Out And Touch Somebody's Hand," "Solid ...

Feinstein's at the Regency has opened the cabaret season with the Motown songwriting team Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. In a fever-pitched hour-plus performance, the duo vigorously embrace ...

Ashford, a dancer from South Carolina and Simpson, a music student, met in a New York church in 1964. Their first songwriting success came two years later when Ray Charles recorded their Let's Go ...

US songwriter Nickolas Ashford, who penned such rhythm and blues hits as Ain't No Mountain High Enough and I'm Every Woman with his wife Valerie Simpson, has died at the age of 70.