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- Mar. 22, 1993: Died:William Clarence t(Billy) Eckstine
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <p> DIED. William Clarence (Billy) Eckstine, 78, singer; in
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the peak of "Mr. B's" postwar
- popularity, aficionados of cool cloned his fashion trademarks:
- the jacket hung casually from the shoulders, the rolled shirt
- collar. But no one could duplicate the honeyed, baritone vibrato
- that turned Everything I Have Is Yours, Fools Rush In and I
- Apologize into romantic standards. Eckstine became pop music's
- first black male sex symbol. Earlier, as guiding spirit of the
- Billy Eckstine Band, he brought together such patriarchs of
- bebop as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
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