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Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).
* December 17 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer ( The Temptations )
* October 5 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer ( b. 1939 )
* Hall & Oates – " Out Of Touch ", " Maneater ", " Get Ready " ( with Eddie Kendricks ), " Ain't Too Proud To Beg " ( with David Ruffin ), " The Way You Do The Things You Do ", " My Girl " ( with Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin ) ( JFK 02: 50 );
* Mick Jagger ( with Hall & Oates / Eddie Kendricks / David Ruffin )" Lonely At The Top ", " Just Another Night ", " Miss You ", " State Of Shock "/" It's Only Rock ' n Roll ( But I Like It ) ( reprise )" ( with Tina Turner ) ( JFK 03: 15 );
Robinson struggled to compete with his former collaborators Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and former Temptations member Eddie Kendricks as all three had multiple hit singles during this period.
His recordings for soundtracks included Belly (" Devil's Pie "), and he frequently sang covers such as " Girl, You Need a Change of Mind " ( Eddie Kendricks, Get on the Bus ), " She's Always in My Hair " ( Prince, Scream 2 ) and " Heaven Must be Like This " ( the Ohio Players, Down in the Delta ), as well as appearing on Lauryn Hill's landmark The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill on the duet " Nothing Even Matters.
**" Can't Take My Eyes Off You "from the live album Farewell ; first featured as a duet with Temptations singer Eddie Kendricks on the album Together
**" Amen "- out-take from 1968's Diana Ross & the Supremes Join The Temptations – released on Joined Together: The Complete Studio Duets – all group members share leads with Temptations members Eddie Kendricks, Dennis Edwards, and Paul Williams.
Along with David Ruffin, Otis Williams ( no relation ), and fellow Alabamians Eddie Kendricks and Melvin Franklin, Williams was a member of The Temptations during the " Classic Five " period.
He met his lifelong best friend Eddie Kendricks during their grade school years ; supposedly, the two first encountered each other in a fistfight after Williams dumped a bucket of mop water on Kendricks.
His early leads include, " Your Wonderful Love " ( 1961 ), " Slow Down Heart " ( 1962 ), " I Want a Love I Can See " ( 1963 ), and " Oh, Mother of Mine " ( 1961 ) ( the group's first single ) and " Farewell My Love " ( 1963 ) both shared with Eddie Kendricks.
In 1982, he was asked to produce a song for The Temptations ' upcoming album, Reunion, after former members Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin returned to the group for their ill-fated reunion.
* The Temptations-four members: Eddie Kendricks ( Union Springs ), Paul Williams ( Birmingham ), Melvin Franklin ( Montgomery ), and Dennis Edwards ( Birmingham )
" Following the success of his first two hits, he found it hard to maintain an identity, as most of his songs were later covered by other Motown artists, most prominently " Everybody Needs Love ," a hit when covered by Gladys Knight & The Pips, " Maria ( You Were The Only One )," a hit for Michael Jackson and " If You Let Me ," a minor hit for Eddie Kendricks.
Eddie Kendricks ( December 17, 1939 – October 5, 1992 ) was an American singer and songwriter.
Eddie Kendricks ( 2nd from left ) with the Temptations in 1967.
as Eddie Kendricks
* 1973: Eddie Kendricks
* Eddie Kendricks, 52 ; Sang With the Temptations – October 7, 1992, NYTimes
* Eddie Kendricks ' Gravesite

Eddie and Paul
Paul Whiteman hoped to snatch up Goldkette's best musicians for his traveling orchestra, but Beiderbecke, Trumbauer, Murray, Rank, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Chauncey Morehouse, and Frank Signorelli instead joined the bass saxophone player Adrian Rollini at the Club New Yorker.
They proceeded to Saint Paul, Minnesota, met up with Hamilton ( who had been recovering for the past month from his gunshot wounds in the East Chicago robbery ), and mustered a new gang, and the two joined Baby Face Nelson's gang, composed of Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll and Eddie Green.
Owned by Penny Chenery, he was trained by Lucien Laurin and mainly ridden by Canadian jockey Ron Turcotte, along with apprentice jockey Paul Feliciano ( first two races ), and veteran Eddie Maple ( last race ).
The Hustler was adapted into a 1961 film of the same title, starring Paul Newman as Fast Eddie.
* Uncredited cast members include Eddie Acuff, Murray Alper, Ward Bond, Walter Brooke, Georgia Carroll, Glen Cavender, Spencer Charters, Wallis Clark, William B. Davidson, Ann Doran, Tom Dugan, Bill Edwards, Frank Faylen, Pat Flaherty, James Flavin, William Forrest, William Gillespie, Joe Gray, Creighton Hale, John Hamilton, Harry Hayden, Stuart Holmes, William Hopper, Eddie Kane, Fred Kelsey, Vera Lewis, Audrey Long, Hank Mann, Frank Mayo, Lon McCallister, Edward McWade, George Meeker, Dolores Moran, Charles Morton, Jack Mower, Paul Panzer, Francis Pierlot, Clinton Rosemond, Syd Saylor, Frank Sully, Dick Wessel, Leo White and Dave Willock.
Others with local connections include actors Roger Moore, Simon Callow, Peter Davison, Nicholas Clay, Neil Pearson and June Whitfield, saucy seaside postcard artist Donald McGill and comedians Eddie Izzard, Jeremy Hardy and Paul Merton.
* Stirl Eddie Harris was appointed by Paul Patton to finish out his term as the newly elected Lieutenant Governor.
In 2001, he released a live album / DVD ( 7 Worlds Collide ) consisting of songs recorded at St James Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand with the likes of Lisa Germano, Sebastian Steinberg ( Soul Coughing ), Ed O ' Brien and Phil Selway ( Radiohead ), Johnny Marr ( The Smiths ), Eddie Vedder ( Pearl Jam ), Paul Jeffrey, Tim Finn, and Betchadupa.
In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).
The show's writers included Howard Harris, Hal Fimberg, Parke Levy, Don Prindle, Eddie Cherkose ( later known as Eddie Maxwell ), Leonard B. Stern, Martin Ragaway, Paul Conlan, and Eddie Forman, as well as producer Martin Gosch.
Paul Hume, Pennell Clamp, Charlie McCarty, Dale Stuckey, Eddie Ellis, and D. J.
Paul had hosted a fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC radio in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humor between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ", " Little Rock Getaway ", " Brazil " and " Tiger Rag ".
The band played a UK farewell tour with Paul Gray ( ex Eddie and the Hot Rods and The Damned bassist ).
As well as the core cast guest voices included Paul Merton, Morwenna Banks, Judith Chalmers, Antoine de Caunes, Bob Holness, Bob Monkhouse, Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Arthur Smith, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Pam Ayres and Eddie Izzard.
Nevertheless, they found instant appeal with teenagers and young adults who were engrossed in the swing and jazz idioms, especially when they performed with nearly all of the major big bands, including those led by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Joe Venuti, Freddie Slack, Eddie Heywood, Bob Crosby ( Bing's brother ), Desi Arnaz, Guy Lombardo, Les Brown, Bunny Berigan, Xavier Cugat, Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis, Nelson Riddle and mood-master Gordon Jenkins, whose orchestra and chorus accompanied them on such successful soft and melancholy renditions as " I Can Dream, Can't I?
With the event of Creamfields that took place in 2004, Oakenfold released a compilation of songs he played during the event as well as tracks influenced by the environment and the vibe of deejays such as Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Judge Jules, Fergie, Tall Paul, Eddie Halliwell, Chris Lawrence, Adam Sheridan, Shan, and Alex Kidd at the Cream / Goodgreef and Mixmag Arena.
Following a brief interlude by From Hell artist Eddie Campbell, the series ' direction was taken over by Paul Jenkins in 1995.
His main guitar, a Les Paul Standard ( fitted with a Les Paul Custom replacement neck after the original neck was broken ) was refinished in a translucent orange to resemble Gretsch guitars played by one of his heroes Eddie Cochran.

Eddie and Williams
In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.
Unknown to Williams, he had caught the eye of the Boston Red Sox's general manager, Eddie Collins, while Collins was scouting Bobby Doerr and the shortstop George Myatt in August 1936.
Some of the most in-demand orchestrators today ( and of the past 30 years ) include Jeff Atmajian, Pete Anthony & Brad Dechter ( James Newton Howard, Christoper Young, John Powell, Hans Zimmer ), Conrad Pope ( John Williams ), Eddie Karam ( John Williams ), Tony Blondal ( Rolfe Kent, Henry Jackman, Chris Young, Ramin Djawadi et al.
He ended the season tied with Mickey Mantle, after having passed Jimmie Foxx, Ted Williams, Willie McCovey, Ernie Banks, Eddie Mathews, Mel Ott, and Eddie Murray.
In what was to be the largest trade in NBA history, in a 5-team, 13-player transaction the Heat traded away Eddie Jones, Rasual Butler and Qyntel Woods and in exchange received former NBA All-Star Antoine Walker, Jason Williams, and James Posey.
The O ' Jays are an American R & B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1958 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert ( born June 16, 1942 ), Walter Williams ( born August 25, 1943 ), William Powell ( January 20, 1942 – May 26, 1977 ), Bobby Massey and Bill Isles.
Original members Eddie Levert, Walter Williams, Bobby Massey and, posthumously, William Powell, were inducted.
These credits included guest spots on nearly all the major variety shows of the period such as The Perry Como Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Kraft Music Hall, Frank Sinatra, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Red Skelton Show, Eddie Fisher, The Dinah Shore Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Smothers Brothers, Jonathan Winters, This is Tom Jones, The Garry Moore Show, The Jerry Lewis Show and The Judy Garland Show.
One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).
*" What Does Eddie Williams Want?
In November 1998, Connolly was the subject of a two-hour retrospective entitled Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years, which included tributes from Judi Dench, Sean Connery, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, and Eddie Izzard.
Many of the top entertainers of the era ( including W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Will Rogers, Ruth Etting, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Marilyn Miller, Ed Wynn, Gilda Gray, Nora Bayes, Sophie Tucker, and others ) appeared in the shows.
In 1939, Bailey fronted a six-side, mostly blues session as " Mildred Bailey and her Oxford Greys " for Vocalion, which featured a small mixed-race combo of Mary Lou Williams ( piano ), Floyd Smith ( electric guitar ), John Williams ( bass ) and Eddie Dougherty ( drums ).
Starting pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude " Lefty " Williams, outfielder Oscar " Happy " Felsch, and shortstop Charles " Swede " Risberg were all principally involved with Gandil.
The O ' Jays are a Canton, Ohio based soul and R & B group, originally consisting of Walter Williams ( born August 25, 1942 ), Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, William Powell ( January 20, 1942 – May 26, 1977 ) and Eddie Levert ( b. June 16, 1942 ).
The musical starred Eddie Cantor as Henry Williams, Ruth Etting as Leslie Daw, Frances Upton as Sally Morgan, Jack Rutherford as Bob Wells, Paul Gregory as Wanenis, Ethel Shutta as Mary ( replacing Ruby Keeler ), and featured Buddy Ebsen in the chorus.
Clockwise from left: Jaleel White as Steve, Kellie Shanygne Williams as Laura, Michelle Thomas as Myra, Darius McCrary as Eddie, Jo Marie Payton as Harriette and Reginald VelJohnson as Carl
In the space of 200m Berger was passed by Nelson Piquet ( Lotus ), Derek Warwick and Eddie Cheever ( Arrows ) and Riccardo Patrese ( Williams ).
The show gave a stage to nightclub and working men's club comedians of the era, including Russ Abbot, Lennie Bennett, Stan Boardman, Jim Bowen, Jimmy Bright, Duggie Brown, Mike Burton, Dave Butler, Brian Carroll, Frank Carson, Jimmy Cricket, Colin Crompton, Charlie Daze, Vince Earl, Steve Faye, Eddie Flanagan, Stu Francis, Ken Goodwin, Jackie Hamilton, Jerry Harris, George King, Bobby Knutt, Bernard Manning, Paul Melba, Mick Miller, Tom O ' Connor, Tom Pepper, Bryn Phillips, Mike Reid, Mike McCabe, George Roper, Harry Scott, Sammy Thomas, Johnny Wager, Roy Walker, Charlie Williams, Lee Wilson and Lenny Windsor.

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