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OBITUARIES: Pervis Jackson

Pervis Jackson, the man behind the deep, rolling bass voice in a string of 1970s R&B hits by The Spinners, died Aug. 18, 2008, in Detroit. He was 70.

Jackson had been diagnosed with brain and liver cancer, his wife, Claudreen Jackson, said.

A New Orleans native, he was one of the original five members of the group that started out in the late 1950s singing doo-wop in Detroit. They worked under the Motown label in the 1960s but shot to stardom after moving ...

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