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- Aldo Valletti was born on 1 December 1924 in Florence, Italy. He was an actor, known for Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975), Io ho paura (1977) and L'educanda (1975). He died on 5 October 1992 in Montecarotto, Italy.
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Eddie Kendricks is an American singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group The Temptations, and was one of their lead singers from 1960 until 1971. His was the lead voice on such famous songs as "The Way You Do the Things You Do", "Get Ready", and "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)". As a solo artist, Kendricks recorded several hits of his own during the 1970s, including the number-one single "Keep on Truckin'."
Kendricks was born in Union Springs, Alabama, the son of Johnny and Lee Bell Kendrick. He had one sister, Patricia, and three brothers, Charles, Robert, and Clarence. His family moved to the Ensley neighborhood of Birmingham, where he met and began singing with his best friend Paul Williams in their church choir in the late 1940s. In 1955, Kendricks, Williams, and friends Kell Osborne and Jerome Averette formed a group called The Cavaliers, and began performing around Birmingham. The group decided to move for better opportunities in their musical careers, and in 1957 the group moved to Cleveland. In Cleveland, they met manager Milton Jenkins, and soon moved with Jenkins to Detroit, where the Cavaliers renamed themselves 'The Primes'. In 1961, Osbourne moved to California, and the Primes disbanded. Kendricks and Paul Williams joined forces with members Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin and the Distants after three members quit and became The Elgins, who on the same day changed their name to The Temptations and signed to Motown. The Temptations quickly became the most successful male vocal group of the 1960s. Although technically Kendricks was first tenor in the group's harmony, he predominately sang in a falsetto voice. In the Temptations, Kendricks was responsible for creating most of the group's vocal arrangements, and also served as wardrobe manager, including the now famous purple suits the group wore for one performance. Though Whitfield had chief responsibility for writing, Kendricks co-wrote and received credit for several Temptations songs.
Kendricks was nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning one for "Cloud Nine" with the Temptations in 1969. The Temptations received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
In 1998, NBC aired The Temptations (1998), a four-hour television miniseries based upon an autobiographical book by Otis Williams. Kendricks was portrayed by actor Terron Brooks.- Actress
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Singer, dancer, trick roper, ventriloquist, martial-arts (jujitsu) expert and deadpan-comedienne Laurie Anders was born and raised on a ranch in Casper, Wyoming. She worked as a stenographer and secretary to the president of a steamfitters and plumbers union there, then started singing with a country-and-western combo in Wyoming. Coming to Hollywood in the 1940s, she worked as a cigarette girl at Ciro's until being discovered by Ken Murray, who signed her to appear in his "Ken Murray's Blackouts" revue in Los Angeles and New York. She was later featured regularly in Murray's television show wearing a cowgirl costume and looking unsmilingly at the camera while repeating her line about the "wide open spaces." By 1951, it was put into a song, "I Like the Wide Open Spaces", with Arthur Godfrey. It sold 500,000 copies. After starring in 1953's "The Marshal's Daughter", she retired. After her 1974 marriage to publicist Leslie Raddatz, she took the name LoRaye Raddatz.
Besides her husband, she was survived by her stepsons Eric Raddatz of Wake Forest, NC, Paul Raddatz of New London, CO, and Mark Raddatz of Sedona, AZ; stepdaughters Irene Hawkins of Hanford, CA, Mollie Lawery of Venice; Ann Farris of San Mateo, CA, and Lynn Carlson of Oakland, CA; and five step-grandchildren.
The J. T. Oswald Mortuary in Reseda, CA served her family and friends, and she was interred at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery, 11160 Stranwood Ave. in Mission Hills, CA.- Fred Otash was born on 7 January 1922 in Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Like Father, Like Son (1974), The Great Sex War (1969) and The Mike Wallace Interview (1957). He was married to Doris Houck. He died on 5 October 1992 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Arno Görke was born on 18 December 1923 in Valparaíso, Chile. He was an actor, known for Herodes und Mariamne (1965), Der Strick um den Hals (1975) and Der dritte Handschuh (1967). He died on 5 October 1992 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Miklós Gyárfás was born on 6 December 1915 in Gyõr, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Tanulmány a nökröl (1968), Elsietett házasság (1968) and Díszmagyar (1949). He died on 5 October 1992 in Budapest, Hungary.