If Motown Records was the lifeblood of American pop music for much of the 1960s and '70s, then the Funk Brothers served as its heart and soul. "The Funk Brothers" was the nickname given to the group ...

Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit "Ball of Confusion" and Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)," has ...