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That same year, the Funk Brothers' surviving members recorded Live in Orlando, an album and video. In 2010, surviving members of the Funk Brothers accompanied Phil Collins on his Motown covers album, Going Back, and appear in the live Going Back concert DVD. In 2010, the Funk Brothers were voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of ...
The Sears Centre Arena hosted All In on September 1, 2018. With 11,263 fans in attendance, it is the highest attended independent wrestling event of all time. This is a list of professional wrestling attendance records on the independent circuit.
Born in Detroit, Griffith was a musician who played keyboards for Motown Records' in-house studio band, The Funk Brothers.Among Griffith's most notable performances on the hundreds of Motown recordings he played on are the electric piano on "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and by The Temptations, and the organ on "Stop!
Born in Grenada, Mississippi, Willis was known for his signature style of muted guitar riffs which added a distinctive tone or "color" to the beat, often timed with the snare, of the hundreds of hit songs recorded at Hitsville U.S.A. for Motown artists.
The Funk Brothers Musical artist Edward James " Bongo " Brown (September 13, 1932 – December 28, 1984) [ 1 ] was an American percussionist known for his work with The Funk Brothers , Detroit -based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 to 1972.
Uriel Jones (8th from left) as part of The Funk Brothers in 2006 In 2008, he performed on the Carl Dixon BandTraxs session at Studio A, Dearborn Heights, Detroit, where he and fellow drummer Spider Webb helped complete Dixon's dreams of paying homage to musicians from the city.
Joseph Edward Hunter (November 19, 1927 – February 2, 2007) [1] was an American musician and keyboardist, known for his recording session work with Motown Records' in-house studio band, the Funk Brothers. One of the original Funk Brothers, Hunter served as band director from 1959 until 1964, when he left Motown and was replaced by Earl Van ...
The Funk Brothers Musical artist Earl Van Dyke (July 8, 1930 – September 18, 1992) [ 1 ] was an American soul musician, most notable as the main keyboardist for Motown Records ' in-house Funk Brothers band during the late 1960s and early 1970s.