Still he said he was satisfied with his career

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When Gordy moved Motown to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, Mr. Strong didn’t immediately want to move his family. He stayed in Detroit and signed with Epic Records, releasing two albums — “Stronghold” (1975) and “Live & Love” (1976), and only later moved to California.

His wife of 35 years, the former Sandy White, died in 2002. Survivors include seven children and 10 grandchildren.

Mr. Strong never achieved the fame that Gordy did, in part because he was naive about the business of music.

“I never liked the business side,” he told the Free Press. “I loved the art. But I didn’t know anything back then.”

“I feel good about it,” Mr. Strong told the paper. “I did something. I did my part, what I was put on this earth to do. I made people smile. I made people have babies. I made people do a lot of things. So I contributed buy phone number list something to my being here.”

Cindy Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the popular sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died. She was 75. Her death was confirmed by a family spokesperson, Liza Cranis, who said Williams “passed away peacefully after a short illness” on Wednesday, Jan. 25, in Los Angeles.


Williams’ credits included the films “American Graffiti” and “The Conversation.” But she was by far best known for playing Shirley Feeney on the ABC sitcom “Laverne & Shirley.” The show, a spinoff of “Happy Days,” was one of the most popular shows on television in its prime. It ran from 1976 to 1983.

“Laverne & Shirley” was known almost as much for its opening theme as the show itself. Williams’ and Marshall’s chant of “schlemiel, schlimazel” as they skipped together became a cultural phenomenon and oft-invoked piece of nostalgia.