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Babbitt was born Robert Kreinar on Nov. 26, 1937, in Pittsburgh. He got his first music work freelancing around Detroit in the mid-1960s and joined Stevie Wonder's touring band in 1966. The next year he became part of Motown's house band, known as the Funk Brothers. Babbitt had lived in Nashville for 26 years but he told The Tennessean in 2003 that he toured so much that he got little work as a sessions player in the city's recording studios. "I couldn't get producers on the phone," he said. Babbitt is survived by his wife, Ann Kreinar, and their children, Carolyn, Joseph and Karen.
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