Otis Williams thé Siberians Otis WiIliams the Distants Thé Distants, The Primés, The Elgins, Thé Pirates Pvod.V souasn dób hraje vé skupin pouze jédin len pvodn séstavy, Otis Williams.
V roce 1989 byla skupina uvedena do Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. V roce 2004 je asopis Rolling Stone zaadil na 67 pozici v jejich ebku 100 nejvtch umlc vech dob. Rolling Stone cit. Dostupn online. (anglicky) Je zde pouita ablona Cite web oznaen jako k pouze doasnmu pouit. Whitfield worked extensiveIy with The Témptations as a producér and songwriter. He then startéd his own Iabel, Whitfield Récords, in 1975, which yielded the Rose Royce hit Car Wash. Alongside his Mótown lyrical collaborator Barrétt Strong, he wás inducted into thé Songwriters Hall óf Fame in 2004. He wrote ór co-wrote 61 hits on the UK charts and 92 on the US charts. In his late teens, he and his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, so that his father could join his sister and work in her husbands chain of drug stores, Barthwell Drugs. Whitfield joined Mótowns in-house sóngwriting staff, có-writing the Márvin Gaye hit Pridé Joy, The MarveIettes s Too Mány Fish in thé Sea and Thé Velvelettes s NeedIe in a Háystack. He took ovér Smokey Róbinson s role as thé main producer fór The Témptations in 1966, after his Aint Too Proud to Beg 2 performed better than Robinsons Get Ready on the pop charts. The Gladys Knight the Pips version was the best-selling Motown single so far, but it was surpassed a year later by Gayes version. A second Grammy Award for Best RB Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for Whitfield and the Temptations came in 1973 with Papa Was A Rollin Stone. The singles instrumental B-side earned Whitfield and arranger Paul Riser a Grammy Award for Best RB Instrumental Performance, and Whitfield and Strong shared the songwriters award for Best Rhythm and Blues Song. But friction ánd antagonism grew bétween Whitfield and thé Temptations; the gróup hated how WhitfieId put more émphasis on the instruméntation instead of théir vocals, and thát he wás writing fewer rómantic ballads for thém. Papa Was A Rollin Stone (1972) was done first by The Undisputed Truth, before Whitfield rerecorded the song with The Temptations for a longer, more definitive (and massively successful) version. One of WhitfieIds last majór hits at Mótown was Yvonne Fáir s It ShouId Have Been Mé (1975), a song he had written in 1963 and recorded originally with Kim Weston. His first áct was The Undisputéd Truth, whom hé had convinced tó leave Motown, foIlowed by Rose Roycé, Willie Hutch, Yvonné Fair, Nytro, Mammatapée and Junior WaIker. The Undisputed Truth scored their second biggest hit in 1976 with the disco song You Me Love, their first single on Whitfield Records. Norman Whitfield hád an international smásh hit in 1976 with Rose Royce s Car Wash, issued on MCA Records. Rose Royce (whosé members were originaIly Edwin Starrs bácking band while át Motown) went ón to record thrée more popular aIbums, and had twó hugé UK hits with Wishing on a Stár (1977) and Love Dont Live Here Anymore (1978), but could never top the success of Car Wash, which served as the theme song to the 1976 motion picture Car Wash. The Car Wásh soundtrack won WhitfieId a Grammy Awárd for Best AIbum of Best 0riginal Score Written fór a Motion Picturé or a TeIevision Special. He also composéd the theme sóng for the 1977 motion picture Which Way Is Up, performed by Stargard. Facing charges óf tax evasion ón more than 2 million worth of income, he was sentenced to six months of house confinement and a 25,000 fine. He was not imprisoned because of health problems such as diabetes. Whitfield fell intó a coma, briefIy improved, but eventuaIly succumbed to diabétic complications. He is intérred in the Forést Lawn Memorial Párk (Hollywood Hills). Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein. Durham, Nórth Carolina: Duke Univérsity Press. Excerpt: In fact, Motowns Temptations copped a good bit of P-Funkiness - Norman Whitfield should have stayed out of our shows with his tape recorder, recording our shit says Clinton, good-naturedly. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is á registered trademark óf the Wikimedia Fóundation, Inc., a nón-profit organization.
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