RIP BOB BABBIT. Motown Bass player.

by **Geoff Alderton LH** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:22 am

The mate of James Jamerson who between them did All the Motown bass lines. List of sessions to long to mention.
RIP Bob
Regards Geoff.

by **dave robinson** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:57 am

More sad news, thanks for the great music Bob - RIP.

by **RayL** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:39 am

Bob Babbit can be seen in the DVD Standing In The Shadows Of Motown which was made about 10 years ago and featured nearly all of the surviving Funk Brothers. It tells the story of the Motown studio musicians and includes a concert where those survivors show they've lost none of their chops!

Ray

by **MMStingray54** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:53 pm

Very sad news - RIP Bob. So soon after Duck Dunn as well :cry:

Responsible for two of my favourite Motown bass parts - Inner City Blues, Marvin Gaye and Signed, Seaed, Delivered, Stevie Wonder.

by **cockroach** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:30 am

Hmm, don't forget, not to take any credit from them, but it wasn't just Bob and James on those records-Carol Kaye (of the Wrecking Crew) played a lot of the bass parts on the Motown recordings...

by **MMStingray54** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:01 pm

Indeed Cockroach - the subject of a lot of debate a few years ago. It appears never to have been established which songs, if any, she played on but likely only after Motown moved to California in the mid 70s - and even then it was suggested it was on demos only. Most of the songs are now properly credited to these guys (part of the funk brothers band), which they weren't originally.

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