“CAN I GET A WITNESS” (INSTRUMENTAL) * EARL VAN DYKE * 1965
Category: Funk Brothers
THE MAGIC BEHIND THE DETROIT MOTOWN SOUND! ’65
“I’LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU” (EXT. INSTRUMENTAL; w/VOCAL) * THE SPINNER * 1965
MOTOWN FUNK BROTHER EDDIE WILLIS, DEAD AT 82
Eddie Willis
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June 3, 1936 – August 20, 2018
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A special thank you to Ric Allen, Michigan Music historian, for directing this Detroit Free Press story (printed this afternoon 3:25 p.m; online) with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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