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...For 80-year-old Otis Williams, the sole surviving original member of The Temptations, the church was in Texas....
...Mike, 42, is shorter, heavier-set and speaks with a thicker Maine accent, all dropped g’s and r’s. He is bearded, goofy and charming, and wears a cap with an American flag on it....
...(A lively 2011 tribute to 1950s R&B group The “5” Royales was billed as a Cropper solo album, but he prefers to think of it as a collaborative project.)...
...The label was a pioneer of R&B and soul music with artists including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding on its books....
...Helmed by producer Steve Jordan, the covers reimagine Dylan’s work as robust, old-school soul and R&B....
...Ukrainian-born aeronautics engineer who has also worked at telecoms company Motorola and the Pentagon’s research agency Darpa, will join United Technologies, which owns aero-engine maker Pratt & Whitney as well as Otis...
...His father was the R&B bandleader Johnny Otis (on whom Zappa modelled his enormous moustache), a fascinating and forceful personality who was Greek-American by birth but thought of himself as African-American...
...Hot Buttered Soul became the first album to hit high in four charts: R&B, jazz, pop and easy listening, restoring Stax’s fortunes after the loss of its artist Otis Redding in a plane crash....
...Mike Hobart barbican.org.uk … Otis Taylor, July 13, Ronnie Scott’s, London The banjo player and guitarist Otis Taylor is an unofficial social historian, his elliptical songs probing into the darker corners...
...Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information/Wings of Love (Epic/Legacy)...
...For me, the R-12 was no longer an adventure but a responsibility. The first image I saw from Otis showed a complete submarine, measuring 186ft from bow to stern....
...Influenced by Amy Winehouse and Ella Fitzgerald, she’s a soul and R’n’B singer, although deft orchestral arrangements also reflect a background in classical music: the 26-year-old graduated from Birmingham...
...She joined Cohen’s band as a classically trained pianist (having studied at the California Institute of the Arts) with a serious interest in R&B and soul, the likes of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding....
...Otis Elevator Company, the US lift manufacturer, for example, recently said it has won a contract to install 21 of the devices at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã stadium....
...“Having our headquarters in the US means that many of the supervisory jobs for global co-ordination, global R&D investment, the management of the company, are here,” he says....
...Markit’s Otis Casey wrote this CDS report With the holidays around the corner, many are looking forward to making trips home to spend time with family and friends....
...Duffy sang confidently, in a supple, tuneful voice that bore faint traces of the nasal tone of modern R&B. It was her only concession to modernity....
...Otis Redding’s “Respect” was a cheerfully sexist R&B number about a salaryman returning home and demanding “respect” from his wife (“Hey little girl, you’re sweeter than honey/And I’m about to give you all...
...He invented all those styles of singing that inspired people like Otis Redding. He loves country music and said, let’s write a song called ‘Moving Out to the Country’.”...
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