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was diagnosed with COVID while rehearsing for the tour earlier this summer, and he's still recovering. The singer, however, will be the only original member performing in the Canton show. 'And I think it will because it's Canton and because it's home.' 'I want it to be a special night for me as well as them,' Williams added. 'And I'm going to just try to soak it up because I still have really good friends there and loved ones, and I'm looking forward to it. 'I think there will be a lot of energy,' Williams said of returning to where The O'Jays started. Popular songs also include “Livin’ For The Weekend,' 'I Love Music,' 'Forever Mine,' “Use Ta Be My Girl,' 'Put Your Hands Together' and 'Time to Get Down.' Recording and performing since the 1960s, the R&B vocal group brings a legacy of seven Billboard top 20 songs to their hometown, including the enduring hits 'Love Train,' 'For the Love of Money' and 'Backstabbers.' The O'Jays earned 10 gold albums and nine platinum albums, as well as three Grammy nominations for Best R&B Vocal. Fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Gladys Knight is the opening act scheduled for 7 p.m. The O'Jays will be headlining a show on the 'Last Stop On The Love Train' tour at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium presented by the Hall of Fame Village. But as the conversation shifted to music and Saturday's Canton homecoming concert, he spoke only with vigor and pep. More: O'Jays and 'Love Train' farewell tour making Canton stop with Gladys Knight in SeptemberĪ serious tone filled the Canton native's voice during a telephone interview last week as he recalled his bout with the coronavirus. 'And that frightened me, and I asked the nurse if I was going to be all right, and she told me I would be fine.' 'When I became conscious, I remember a priest coming in and giving me last rites,' said Williams, who was hospitalized for more than a month. 'I needed dialysis because my kidneys had stopped working, and they took me to a ward, and I remember the guy who was pushing my bed asked the other guy who opened the door, 'Is this a warm body room or is this a cold body room?,' and they said, 'This is a warm body room,' and they pushed me in there. 'I stayed in that coma for about a week-and-a-half and I woke up,' the 79-year-old Williams recalled. The O'Jays singer had contracted COVID-19 around Christmas, and then fell into a diabetic coma. was severely ill with COVID and had been admitted into a Las Vegas hospital at the onset of the pandemic. So hopefully it’ll only be a matter of time before they’re hugging and loving each other again at a family get-together, while The O’Jays’ “Family Reunion” plays in the background.Walter Williams Sr.

#EDDIE LEVERT DID I MAKE YOU GO OOH PLUS#

After losing two close loved ones, Sean and Gerald, they all probably understand just how short and unpredictable life is, plus the Levert fam’ seems like a pretty tight knit unit who loves Eddie to the core and vice versa. It’s just like the old school saying goes: ‘The more money you get, the more problems you have,’ but I’m sure the tension will settle down soon between Eddie and his children. We’re talking about how people are running around shooting each other and doing all these crazy things.” Me and her wrote it and I put it on my CD. I just did a new CD, and we did a song called “Stupid People.” That’s her title.

She’s got whole attitude and the expressions and all of that. Her mom is doing everything she can to keep her down. Eddie’s youngest daughter, now 16, is singing and performing as well. King’s kids, James Brown’s kids, it just goes on and on.”Įddie says, there’s a new generation of Levert performers. My daughter stopped speaking to me because I did the play, but her mom OK’ed the play so I thought it was OK to do it. “You have all these people involved in their lives and Gerald’s lives and in his estate, you’ve got to clear everything so his kids can get paid for it. Everybody thinks they deserve to get paid, too, ” Eddie says.

“If you don’t include everybody in the family, you get a lot of flack from these people. Here is what he told Black America Web about this:

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