Bob Babbitt, 1937-2012

“Motown bass player Bob Babbitt, whose work lit up a host of hits in the ’60s and ’70s, died Monday morning in Nashville, friends said. He was 74…. At Motown Records in the late ’60s, Babbitt’s thick, fluid bass lines drove the groove on songs by the Temptations (‘Ball of Confusion’), Stevie Wonder (‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours),’ Rare Earth (‘(I Know) I’m Losing You’), Smokey Robinson & the Miracles (‘The Tears of a Clown’) and many others.