* 1941 – Otis Williams, American singer

Dennis Scott played only 18 games, Nick Anderson missed 22 games, Stanley Roberts, Jerry Reynolds, Brian Williams, Sam Vincent and Otis Smith all missed at least 27 games each.

* Otis Williams & the Distants begin their musical career.

* Otis Williams and the Charms, an American doo-wop group

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.

While on this visit, he and Paul had learned that Otis Williams, head of a rival Detroit act known as The Distants, had two openings in his group's lineup.

Paul Williams and Kendricks joined Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Elbridge Bryant to form The Elgins, who signed to the local Motown label in 1961, after first changing their name to The Temptations.

Otis Williams and the other Temptations decided to resort to enlisting an on-hand fill-in for Paul Williams.

His death was ruled a suicide by the coroner ; Williams had expressed suicidal thoughts to Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin months before his death.

In 1998, NBC aired The Temptations, a four-hour television miniseries based upon an autobiographical book by Otis Williams.

* Williams, Otis and Patricia Romanowski ( 1988, updated 2002 ).

It made # 2, besting a cover version by Otis Williams & the Charms.

At age 25, Dawkins joined a Nets club that included Albert King, Buck Williams, and Otis Birdsong.

Kendricks and Paul Williams joined forces with members Otis Williams and Melvin " Blue " Franklin of Otis Wiliiams and the Distants after three members quit and became The Elgins, who on the same day changed their name to " The Temptations " and signed to Motown.

According to Otis Williams, Kendricks romantically pursued Diana Ross, lead singer of the Supremes, and he was said to have been close friends with Martha Reeves of the Vandellas.

He was uncomfortable with singing the psychedelic style that Whitfield was now crafting for the group as opposed to the romantic ballads they had sung under the direction of Smokey Robinson ; his friend Paul Williams was often too ill to perform with the group ; and Kendricks often found himself at odds with bandmates Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin.

Popular versions by Cathy Carr and Gale Storm, and a rhythm & blues version by Otis Williams and the Charms all received major popularity in 1956.

* Otis Williams and the Charms ( 1956 )

Notable athletes within the list include NFL players Wilson Whitley, Glenn Montgomery, Alfred Oglesby, Craig Veasey, Donnie Avery, David Klingler, Kevin Kolb, Sebastian Vollmer, and Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware ; baseball stars Doug Drabek, Michael Bourn, and Brad Lincoln ; golfers Fred Couples, Billy Ray Brown, Steve Elkington, and Fuzzy Zoeller ; track and field legends Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell ; NBA legends Hakeem " The Dream " Olajuwon, Clyde " The Glide " Drexler and " The Big E " Elvin Hayes as well as Bo Outlaw, Don Chaney, Michael Young, Damon Jones, Carl Herrera and Otis Birdsong ; and legendary Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry.

The parking lot scenes were shot at the Otis College of Art and Design, distinguished by its punchcard-like windows, located near LAX in Los Angeles.

's were the label's backing band for most of the classic hits that came out of Stax, by Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and many more.

Four systems were developed, Rohr's ROMAG, LTV's AirTrans, Ford's APT and Otis Elevator's hovercraft design.

Also involved in the Nancy Drew writing process were Harriet Stratemeyer Adams's daughters, who gave input on the series and sometimes helped to choose book titles ; the Syndicate's secretary, Harriet Otis Smith, who invented the characters of Nancy's friends Bess and George ; and the editors at Grosset and Dunlap.

Aretha Franklin's 1967 recordings, such as " I Never Loved a Man ( The Way I Love You )", " Respect " ( originally sung by Otis Redding ), and " Do Right Woman, Do Right Man " ( written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn ), are considered the apogee of the soul genre, and were among its most commercially successful productions.

( Johnny Otis along with Alan Freed and Dick Clark were the major powers in the growing rock and roll industry.

The village and depot were renamed Antrim after the Otis interests were bought by the Antrim Iron Company.

Six year old Sidney Walters and his parents were staying with Hiram Otis, the local justice of the peace, and Otis decided that Sidney was a good name for the town.

The hamlet now-called Gabriels actually originated back when only the Rands, the Ricketsons, the Dustins, the Otis ' were settled on farms nearer to the Split Rock Road and Ricketson Brook in the southern part of the town along the boundary with the Town of Harrietstown than where Gabriels is currently situated.

Between 1901 and 1915, the townships of Orchard Avenue, Greenacres, Otis Orchards, Opportunity, Vera, Dishman, Liberty Lake, Newman Lake, East Spokane, Mica and Chester were platted.

The Allman Brothers were signed to Capricorn Records, a small Macon label formed and headed by Phil Walden ( former manager of Otis Redding ) and partner Frank Fenter, former European Managing Director of Atlantic Records.

Several of the 12 tracks were covers of pure Chicago blues ( side 1 kicking off strong with Otis Rush's " All Your Love " and Freddy King's hit instrumental " Hide Away " spelled without a space as “ Hideaway ”); Mayall wrote or arranged 5 ( such as " Double Crossing Time ", a slow blues with a scorching solo by cowriter Clapton ); and Eric debuted as lead vocalist, and began his practice of paying tribute to Robert Johnson, with " Ramblin ' on My Mind ".

" However, Burke ’ s chart decline coincided with the years when most other exemplars of soul music ( including Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, and Stevie Wonder ) were " solidifying their respective stardoms.

After failing to crack the top ten for a couple of years, by the beginning of 1968 Burke was no longer a major artist at Atlantic Records, who were producing hit records for other performers on their label including Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin, and were also reaping the rewards of their distribution deal with Stax on artists like Otis Redding and Eddie Floyd.

In March 1967, Sam and Dave were co-headliners for the Stax / Volt Revue in Europe, which included Booker T & the MGs, The Mar-Keys, Eddie Floyd, Carla Thomas, Arthur Conley and headliner Otis Redding.

Later they were to draw artistic influence from contemporary rock acts including The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Joe Brown, Cream, The Kinks, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Rufus Thomas, The Who, The Pretty Things, and Screaming Lord Sutch.

* Parts of it were also used in the movie The Adventures of Milo and Otis ( 1986 ).

Rodgers and Page were briefly part of this and recorded " These Arms of Mine ", an Otis Redding tune.

All the songs were written and arranged by Otis himself, who played almost exclusively every musical instrument on the album ( except for horns and various stringed instruments ).

Otis ' only credited works throughout the mid-1970s were done as a session musician for his father's recording projects.

Its most notable artists were Otis Clay (“ That ’ s How It Is ”), Harold Burrage (“ Got to Find A Way ”), McKinley Mitchell (“ The Town I Live In ”), and the Five Dutones (" Shake a Tail Feather ”).

The names of the villains were taken from the names of Groucho Marx characters ( Animal Crackers " Captain Spaulding ", A Night at the Operas " Otis B. Driftwood ", Duck Soups " Rufus T. Firefly ", and A Day at the Races " Hugo Z. Hackenbush ", among others ).