DETROIT, USA (AP) —
Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt (born Robert Kreinar) died yesterday. He was 74. He had brain cancer.
Babbitt and the Funk Brothers provided a rhythmically and melodically rich background for many Motown hits.
 Bob Babbit
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Babbitt laid down bass lines on Stevie Wonder’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered, the Temptations’ Ball of Confusion, Inner City Blues by Marvin Gaye and Edwin Starrs “War.”
Well-known for decades among musicians, Babbitt gained wider public recognition through the 2002 film about the Funk Brothers, Standing in the Shadows of Motown.
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