[Vision2020] Another Great One Bites the Dust

Donovan Arnold donovanarnold at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 27 07:31:20 PST 2005


He was only 66, that is scary. People are suppose to live longer than that. 
I probably won't be done with school till I am 65. At least it feels that 
long.


>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Another Great One Bites the Dust
>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:43:45 -0800
>
>Greetings Visionaires -
>
>Another great one from the 60's and 70's, Edward Patten.
>
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>
>Edward Patten, 66, Grammy-Winning Singer
>
>Edward Patten, a member of the Grammy-winning Gladys Knight & The Pips died
>Friday at a suburban Detroit hospital, said his cousin, another member of
>the group.  He was 66.
>
>Patten, an Atlanta native who lived in Detroit, died from a stroke he
>suffered a few days before, William Guest said.
>
>The group - Gladys Knight, her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight, and their
>cousins Guest and Patten - recorded fro Motown from 1966 to 1973 and for
>Buddah Records from 1973 to 1977.  They later recorded for CBS until
>breaking up in 1989.
>
>The group, whose hits included "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and
>"Midnight Train to Georgia", won four Grammys and was inducted to the Rock
>and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
>
>Patten was one of the founders of Crew Records, based in Detroit and
>Atlanta, and sang backup for the label's recording artists, Crew 
>spokeswoman
>Denise Fussell said.
>
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>
>"He said he's goin' back to find
>Ooh, what's left of his world,
>The world he left behind
>Not so long ago.
>He's leaving,
>On that midnight train to Georgia"
>
>We'll miss you, Eddie.
>
>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
>
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