Eddie Kendricks

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well now. I don't see myself talking about the temptations and not talking about the talented, wonderful and humble Eddie Kendricks. Eddie Kendricks was born Edward James Kendrick in Union Springs, Alabama, on December 17, 1939. He had one sister. Patricia and her three brothers Charles Robert and Clarence His family moved to the Ensley neighborhood of Birmingham. He later met his best friend Paul Williams and they started singing together in his church choir Eddie and Paul Williams had a friendship that I really admire Eddie was very loyal To Paul, I think they had an amazing friendship in 1955.

Eddie Paul and his Friends Kel Osborne and Jerome Everett formed a doo-wop group called The Cavaliers and began performing in Birmingham. The group moved to Cleveland, Ohio on East 123rd in Kinsmen in 1957. In Cleveland they met Milton Jenkins who became their manager and soon moved with Jenkins to Detroit Michigan where the Cavaliers renamed themselves the Primes. The Primes were quite successful in the Detroit area and later a female spin-off group called the Primettes was created, who would later become their manager. they became the supreme in 1961 osborne moved to california and the cousins ​​separated

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and paul williams later got together with elbridge al bryant otis williams and melvin blue franklin of otis williams and the distance then auditioned for motown records in march 1961 and they impressed barry gordy who decided to sign the group with the motown label in a miracle, however, barry gordy discovered that there was another group called the elgins, so the group changed its name to the temptations, the temptations They started singing Mary Wells in the background for a while, they didn't.

It didn't have any hits, so in 1964, the song The Way You Do the Things You Do took off with brother Eddie Kendricks as lead singer, hitting the pop top 20 and then going to number one on the Cash Box R B charts. The Test Temptations quickly became the most successful male vocal group of the 1960s - it's said that no one could touch them, they were just incredible. Eddie was technically the first tenor in the group's harmony, but he often sang in falsetto. Some of the songs Eddie sang were a dream come true 1962 The group's first charting single The way you do the things you do I'll be in trouble The girls are fine with me 1964 A popular B-side that Eddie Cole wrote Girl why are you going to make me sad why do you want to make me sad smart, please give me back your love and just my imagination in 1971. now let's talk about Eddie and fashion, he had exquisite taste, I'm sure everyone could see that too, He saw them, he knew how to dress, he designed many of the Temptation Costumes, including the popular purple costumes they wore for a performance, he was their wardrobe manager.

Eddie's daughter talked about how everything looked good on Eddie and how his hats became her signature. His ex-wife, Patricia, also talked about how much Eddie liked fashion, she said she chose the colors and how he wanted the clothes to be made. He had a lot of talent. She saw an interview with Eddie and David in later years and David joked telling Eddie that he didn't like some of the clothes Eddie made them wear in 1964. David Ruffin. He replaced Al Bryant in the Temptations and the group became even larger. David sang the song My Girl in 1965 and a few months later, Eddie sang the title track on his third number one hit.

Get ready. It was a great combination to have David and Eddie as lead singers. With all that success, Eddie's friend said he never lost sight of where Dalene came from. Paul Kendricks' mother talked about how sensible Eddie was. He never talked about himself. He didn't go on air or anything like that. His ex-wife. Patricia said that temptations were in the way all the time and Eddie often hid or pretended to be sick so he wouldn't have to go on a trip and finally he accepted and left, Eddie. From what I can see, he was a kind man.

She talked about how Eddie accidentally hit a squirrel and it died and Eddie took it so hard that he buried the squirrel in the backyard. He said the squirrel had a family to take care of. She said Eddie had a show that night and he didn't go, he didn't go to the shoya, she said he went to bed and stayed there for three days, that's how much it affected him, what a good heart he had, how many of us would do that at some point. At the time when certain people started having problems with David Ruffin, there was a time when he said he wanted the name changed to David Ruffin and the Temptations, and when they started talking about letting David go, Eddie was the main one. person against, wanted David to stay. mentioned that in the song episode, Eddie's friend Prentice Anderson said in that unacknowledged episode that Eddie was always backing up David because he believed they wouldn't really make it until they got David, but by 1968, David had disappeared. of the temptations that Eddie began to have. problems with certain things that were happening and the immediate problem was the deteriorating health of his best friend, Paul Williams, who suffered from sickle cell anemia, which is a very difficult disease to treat.

I recently lost another member of my family who had sickle cell anemia and paul is very difficult to deal with then he turned to alcohol dennis edwards said that otis hired richard street to sing paul's notes and

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was very irritated because he didn't like that in Absolutely this was said in the unsung episode with Dennis Edwards being interviewed that what happened to Paul hurt Eddie deeply. Eddie and Paul had been friends since they were kids, so I can imagine how terrible that felt. You know, aside from Eddie's wonderful voice, what I admired most about him was what a great friend he was. you have only one or two loyal friends in your life, you are very lucky, treat them well, they don't come around every day, so I watched the unacknowledged episode about Eddie Kendricks and they interviewed his beautiful daughter and his ex-wife, Patricia, also his daughter.

He said that Eddie and Diana Ross dated back in the primate and primate era, as some of you know, Barry Gordy and Diana were in a relationship at one point, they also had a child together. eddie's daughter said eddie felt that was the reason barry gordy didn't give him a fair chance supposedly i also saw an interview with eddie that he did with urban street he said in the interview he didn't really know barry gordy he just saw him about three times he said that what he does know is that barry gordy didn't particularly care about him it was mentioned in the unacknowledged episode interview that diana ross was believed to be in love with eddie

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his ex-wife patricia talked about how diana appeared in a of her properties she said that she doesn't like to remember that time it wasn't nice, one of the men who was in that episode of the song said that while Eddie was married, Diana came to his property and was banging on the door and broke a glass , honey, supposedly and this.

The information went back to the head office, which was not good. I can understand why someone wouldn't want to lose Eddie, although he was a good man and I think he was a good man, so I can understand that loss. Eddie's last number one song with the temptations was just my imagination that song took off but eddie walked away after leaving the temptations in 1970 eddie stayed in motown as a solo artist and went to number one with his song keep on trucking and after that had eight top 10 songs with motown, including two number ones, shoeshine and boogie down, left motown after nine solo albums, then signed with aristo records than atlantic, was not as successful with them, although in the early 1990s 80 decided to do a Temptations reunion tour to kick off the The Motown tour produced a Temptations reunion album with the five current members at the time, along with Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin, they asked Melvin Franklin's nephew, Rick James, to wrote the production and guests performed on the album's lead single, which sits at the top. the tour started well but didn't end well Dennis Edwards said that people started missing shows and that people were taking drugs, including himself, he said that everyone contributed to it not working out in 1983, Eddie released his last solo album But the record didn't really take off in 1985.

Holland Oates performed with Eddie and David Ruffin at the Apollo Theater and an album recorded there reached No. 20 on the charts. Eddie David and Dennis went on their own tour and called themselves the original singers of the temptations, which was a successful tour. It is said that Eddie was having trouble with his voice, he wasn't playing notes like he used to and in the unacknowledged episode, Dennis Edwards said that Eddie smoked cigarettes. His daughter Aika said she didn't know he smoked halfway through the tour. Eddie visited his doctor and discovered that he had a drop of cancer in his lungs.

Eddie supposedly didn't see quitting smoking as an option. He continued with the tour. His friend Prentice Anderson said that the more they were torn, the sicker Eddie became then, in June 1991, Eddie's friend David Ruffin. He died and it was said that Eddie took it very hard because David was like a brother. They also talked about this in the unacknowledged episode. Prentice said that after David died, Eddie became sicker. He said Eddie went to the hospital and had a lung removed and in just a few weeks. After his lung surgery, Eddie and Dennis continued touring, this time in the Middle East, Tunisia.

Wilson said Eddie didn't quit because he didn't want them to have to suffer. That's how selfless he was. You know, he kept dating. In 1992, Eddie returned to the Apollo one last time and performed. The place was full. Tunisia said he had a huge oxygen tank there to help him breathe. He was still trying to act. He was still acting even though he wasn't at his best. He would go get some oxygen and come back and sing. This man is the perfect definition of no excuses. He didn't give up. He continued to carry people in the crowd.

He seemed so happy to be there in his presence. I saw this video. You know, with him performing there, that was his last public performance, Eddie Kendricks died on October 5, 1992 at only 52 years old. Eddie Kendricks was given a park in Birmingham that he so richly deserves. Eddie had three children. Paris Kendricks. Paul Kendricks and his daughter Aker. Eddie Kendricks is. a man I will always always admire, rest in peace brother eddie, you