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    Williams, Elbridge "Al" Bryant, and Melvin Franklin of Otis Williams & the Distants, and Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams of the Primes. In 1964, Bryant was...
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    friends/bandmates Elbridge "Al" Bryant and Richard Street quit the Distants. Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams from The Primes later joined Williams, Bryant, and Franklin...
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    original lead singer of the Motown group the Temptations. Along with Elbridge "Al" Bryant, Otis Williams, and fellow Alabamians Eddie Kendricks and Melvin...
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  • Berry Gordy, and group members Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin and Elbridge Bryant, and produced by Gordy. It was the group's second single, as well as...
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    Bentley – country music artist Mike Bobo – college football coach Elbridge Bryant – singer and one of the founding members of The Temptations Joe Burns...
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    he was offered the opportunity to join the Temptations to replace Elbridge Bryant. However, after hearing his brother David, they hired him for the job...
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  • unreleased tracks dating from the Elbridge Bryant era of the early 1960s. (***) Recorded in 1963 during the Elbridge Bryant era with The Supremes as background...
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  • Things You Do". The other tracks all feature original Temptation Elbridge "Al" Bryant, who was fired from the group in December 1963. Again, excepting...
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  • and critic Elbridge "Al" Bryant, former member of the singing group The Temptations Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858–1949), American artist Elbridge Chapman (1895–1954)...
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    Ruffin had joined the group as a replacement for former Temptation Elbridge Bryant. While on tour as part of the Motortown Revue, a collective tour for...
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  • original Motown masters performed by The Temptations: "Check Yourself" (Elbridge Bryant, Berry Gordy, Jr., David English, and Williams) "(You're My) Dream...
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  • some tracks present which were recorded with Ruffin's predecessor, Elbridge Bryant, in the lineup. There's also one track that was recorded with Ruffin's...
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  • Grant Jawan Jackson Melvin Franklin Eddie Kendricks Paul Williams Elbridge Bryant David Ruffin Dennis Edwards Ricky Owens Richard Street Damon Harris...
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    after founding Temptation Elbridge Bryant had been fired, and Jimmy Ruffin's younger brother David Ruffin had taken Bryant's place. While Ruffin would...
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    The 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue station is an underground New York City Subway station complex, consisting of stations on the IRT Flushing Line...
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  • some tracks of Slipknot but left the band before the album's release. Elbridge Bryant The Temptations Vocalist 1963 1964 Fired and replaced by David Ruffin...
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  • September 23 – Roy Buchanan, guitarist (died 1988) September 28 – Elbridge Bryant (The Temptations) (died 1975) September 30 – Len Cariou, Canadian actor...
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  • Live Vol. 2", Paul Williams and Elbridge "Al" Bryant exchange leads at the end of the song (one of the few times Bryant appears as lead on a song) - the...
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  • The Temptations (Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin, Elbridge Bryant, and Otis Williams) Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers Andrew "Mike"...
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  • The Siberians/The El Domingoes lineups 1958–1959 Elbridge "Al" Bryant – tenor Otis Williams – baritone James "Pee-Wee" Crawford – tenor Vernard Plain –...
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    renamed Otis Williams and the Distants)—Williams, Franklin, Street, Elbridge "Al" Bryant, and James "Pee Wee" Crawford—recorded at Matthews' Northern Records...
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  • released during the period of the "Original 5" lineup (before member Elbridge "Al" Bryant was fired). It is also noted as the group's last single to miss the...
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  • and Piranha in Luke Cage (2018). He is also known for his portrayal as Al Bryant in the 1998 NBC miniseries The Temptations. Shepherd grew up in Philadelphia...
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    Elbridge Boyden FAIA (1810–1898) was a prominent 19th-century American architect from Worcester, Massachusetts, who designed numerous civil and public...
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  • Finance" (Stevenson, Eddie Kendricks) "Check Yourself" (Berry Gordy, Elbridge Bryant, Melvin Franklin, Williams) "Dream Come True" (Gordy) "Mind Over Matter...
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  • Otis Williams, at the time a teen, is running to meet his friend Elbridge "Al" Bryant at a musical performance by The Cadillacs, where Otis and the singer...
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    Williams, Melvin Franklin (who referred to Street as his cousin), and Elbridge "Al" Bryant, who left The Distants and their record deal with Johnnie Mae Matthews'...
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  • was recorded just days before the firing of the original member Elbridge "Al" Bryant. In the song, the narrator tells his former love how much he misses...
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    disbanded. Kendricks and Paul Williams joined forces with members Elbridge “Al” Bryant in addition to Otis Williams and Melvin "Blue" Franklin from Otis...
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  • Williams – vocals Melvin Franklin – vocals Otis Williams – vocals Elbridge "Al" Bryant – vocals ("Baby, Baby I Need You") with: The Andantes – additional...
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