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  Funk Brothers bassist Bob Babbitt (born Robert Kreiner in Pittsburgh, PA) - November 26, 1937 - July 16, 2012, RIP

  For those of you who may not know this man's name or face, you will certainly know his outstanding work as a musician. Having been a part of Motown's legendary studio band The Funk Brothers from 1967 to 1972, he played on numerous hits such as Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me" and "Inn...er City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)", Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours", Diana Ross' "Touch Me In The Morning", to other classics like Dennis Coffey's "Scorpio", The Capitols "Cool Jerk", Gladys Knight & The Pips' "If I Were Your Woman, "Midnight Train To Georgia", The Shades Of Blue's "Oh How Happy", Edwin Starr's "Agent Double 'O Soul", The Parliaments "(I Just Wanna) Testify", The Spinners' (They Just Can't Stop It) Games People Play", "Rubberband Man", Gloria Gaynor's "Never Can Say Goodbye", The Main Ingredient's "Just Don't Want To Be Lonely", Ray Goodman & Brown's "Special Lady", Barry Manilow's "Copacabana", "Ready To Take A Chance Again", Deniece Williams' "Silly" and "It's Gonna Take A Miracle" and on and on. He will be missed.

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  Marcus Miller

  R.I.P. Funk Brother Bob Babbitt...you will be missed.

RIP

Classic Babbitt Bass Solo

Dennis Coffey - "Scorpio"

Hope Bob is now funkin' in heaevn with Jamerson, Earl van Dyke and the rest of the brothers.

More four string foodness from the late great man:

R.I.P.

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Rest in Peace, Mr. Babbit

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play on brother.....

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Sad to see another Funk Brother go down.

RIP Bob.

PS - who's left from the Funk Brothers?

R.I.P. to one of the baddest Bassist...I know he is jamming with his brothers up in heaven......Will be missed......LEGENDARY Bass Player IMO!

G3000 said:

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  Funk Brothers bassist Bob Babbitt (born Robert Kreiner in Pittsburgh, PA) - November 26, 1937 - July 16, 2012, RIP

  For those of you who may not know this man's name or face, you will certainly know his outstanding work as a musician. Having been a part of Motown's legendary studio band The Funk Brothers from 1967 to 1972, he played on numerous hits such as Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me" and "Inn...er City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)", Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours", Diana Ross' "Touch Me In The Morning", to other classics like Dennis Coffey's "Scorpio", The Capitols "Cool Jerk", Gladys Knight & The Pips' "If I Were Your Woman, "Midnight Train To Georgia", The Shades Of Blue's "Oh How Happy", Edwin Starr's "Agent Double 'O Soul", The Parliaments "(I Just Wanna) Testify", The Spinners' (They Just Can't Stop It) Games People Play", "Rubberband Man", Gloria Gaynor's "Never Can Say Goodbye", The Main Ingredient's "Just Don't Want To Be Lonely", Ray Goodman & Brown's "Special Lady", Barry Manilow's "Copacabana", "Ready To Take A Chance Again", Deniece Williams' "Silly" and "It's Gonna Take A Miracle" and on and on. He will be missed.

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man, that's an amazing amount of classic songs. and think of the fact that the funk bros had only 5 solid years together, and look at what they accomplished! r.i.p.

^ And the most humble thing of it is that most of them were happy to just play music. They didn't care about a hit but because they cared about the music so much they were able to create them with the help of the songwriters, arrangers and producers as well as the singers themselves. That's what made Motown so great and Babbitt was a part of it. RIP

Timmy84 said:

^ And the most humble thing of it is that most of them were happy to just play music. They didn't care about a hit but because they cared about the music so much they were able to create them with the help of the songwriters, arrangers and producers as well as the singers themselves. That's what made Motown so great and Babbitt was a part of it. RIP

VERY TRUE yet it's kinda sad nobody knows about them. But the documentary Standing in the shadows of Motown was pretty good in enlighten their contribution.