High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 - July 6, 1979) was an accomplished musician, music producer, arranger, songwriter, and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song "The Hustle," which is still played in dance halls and on radio to this day more than thirty years since his death. He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit and is also noted for producing songs for such recording artists as Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda The Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches Herb, and Stacy Lattisaw.