Snared in a web of deceit: Earl Spencer says Martin Bashir claimed William wore a watch that recorded Diana,... Father who killed his three-year-old son in 100mph race crash on motorway is jailed for four-and-a-half... Electric scooters could have artificial noise alerts fitted to reduce their risk to pedestrians and the... Ryan Giggs is arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend at his £1.7million mansion after police... Are YOU recycling all wrong? Street, originally from Detroit, first recorded with his own group the Monitors and occasionally would fill in for Temptations baritone Paul Williams. Instead, he's a supporting player in the band's vocal harmonies. Although The Primes never recorded, they were successful performers, and even launched a spin-off female group called The Primettes, who later became The Supremes. His death was ruled as an apparent suicide. The doctor found a spot on Williams' liver and advised him to retire from the group altogether. In 1965, Williams began an affair with Winnie Brown, hair stylist for The Supremes and a relative of Supremes member Florence Ballard. He was survived by his wife, Mary Agnes Williams, and five children: Sarita, Kenneth, Paula, Mary and Paul Jr.[10] Paul Jr later joined a Temptations splinter group, The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards.

Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive. In recent years Williamson collaborated with the band BlackBerry Jam, and was working on a gospel project with the group before his death. Williamson shot to fame when he joined The Temptations in 2006, and sang with the group in concerts and on television until 2015. 50+ videos Play all Mix - Death of Paul Williams YouTube The Temptations - Motown 40 (1998) - Duration: 12:22. His vocals figure on the group's more recent albums Back to Front and Still Here. I wanted to be myself.'. Newspapers.com makes these newspapers available for the purpose of historical research, and is not responsible for the content of any newspapers archived at our site. He died in a hospital. Along with Elbridge "Al" Bryant, Otis Williams, and fellow Alabamians Eddie Kendricks and Melvin Franklin, Williams was a member of The Temptations. Williams was noted for being one of the founding members and original lead singer of the Motown group The Temptations. Clipped by jemot6 • 19 Aug 2018; Clipped from. "[7], In the spring of 1969, Williams and Brown opened the Celebrity House West, a celebrity fashion boutique, in downtown Detroit. [2] He met Eddie Kendricks in elementary school; supposedly, the two first encountered each other in a fistfight after Williams dumped a bucket of mop water on Kendricks.

Williamson is quoted as saying that he did 'more in six months of being a Temptation than many artists have done in a lifetime'. Williams' later leads on Temptations songs include, "Just Another Lonely Night" (1965), "No More Water in the Well" (1967), and a cover version of "Hey Girl" (1969). Also, because this is OTIS' story which came from his book "Temptations", Richard Street gets treated like he was some bit player. Both boys shared a love of singing, and sang in their church choir together. DePasse!). In 1957, Williams, Kendricks, and Osborne left Birmingham to start careers, leaving Waller behind. However, by the following summer, Motown declined to release the single. [11], Because Williams's voice had become ravaged due to his respiratory illness and alcoholism, the Temptations decided to resort to enlisting an on-hand fill-in for him. Williams sang lead on several of the group's songs, and served as the main lead singer during the group's early years.

News of this death only emerged over the weekend. [14][15], By early 1973, Williams began recording solo material for Motown. Ministers suggest Nicola Sturgeon WON'T get powers to spend BILLIONS paying 80% furlough to Scots after... Home Secretary Priti Patel will order police to stop protests involving more than TWO people during... Trump closes the gap even further: Biden hangs on to slim leads in six swing states Arizona, Florida,... Was lockdown sold on a LIE?

Their hit songs were My Girl, The Way You Do the Things You Do (both in 1964) and Ain't Too Proud To Beg (1966). Paul Williams was born and raised in the Ensley neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama. US tourist, 25, shot dead after stealing a gun and going on a shooting spree in Thailand. –> Click Here. His early leads include, "Your Wonderful Love" (1961), "Slow Down Heart" (1962), "I Want a Love I Can See" (1963), and "Oh, Mother of Mine" (1961) (the group's first single) and "Farewell My Love" (1963) both shared with Eddie Kendricks.