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(Mar. 22, 1993) Died:William Clarence 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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