On August 2, 1983, James Jamerson died of pneumonia in Los Angeles. R.I.P. James Jamerson BASSIST EXTRAORDINAIRE!

James Lee Jamerson

(January 29, 1936 - August 2, 1983)

Jamerson  was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s (Motown did not list session musician credits on their releases until 1971)…

He is now regarded as one of the most influential bass players in modern music history. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He performed on 30 number-one hits, more than any person or group in music history, and on more than 70 number-one R 'n B hits, also the most ever…

On August 2,1983, James Jamerson died of pneumonia in Los Angeles… 

Check out thebassland.net’s extensive story of James Jamerson…  

R.I.P. James Jamerson…

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June 23, 1962: Playboy" by the Marvelettes reaches #7…

"Playboy" is a song composed by Brian Holland,  Robert Bateman,

Robert Bateman on the right

 Mickey Stevenson  

Mickey Stevenson

 and singer Gladys Horton...

Gladys Horton, lead vocalist of the Motown singing group The Marvelettes

The Marvelettes

 

The song was released as a single on Motown's Tamla imprint
 in 1962…

The single, is led by Horton,  and backed by The Funk Brothers with Marvin Gaye on drums...

 and James Jamerson on bass...

The tune is about a man who fools around with a lot of women and the woman who narrates the story warns him to stay away from her due to the stories she heard of him "running around with every woman in town". Horton is helped out in the song by her Marvelettes cohorts Wanda Young, Georgeanna Tillman, Katherine Anderson & Juanita Cowart...

 

 This was released as the third single by the Marvelettes and was their second top ten pop hit reaching number seven on the charts while reaching number four on the R&B chart…

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