![]() ![]() ![]() More O'Jays: People travel near and far to attend O’Jays family reunion was diagnosed with COVID while rehearsing for the tour earlier this summer, and he's still recovering. The singer, however, will be the only original member performing in the Canton show. "And I think it will because it's Canton and because it's home." "I want it to be a special night for me as well as them," Williams added. "And I'm going to just try to soak it up because I still have really good friends there and loved ones, and I'm looking forward to it. "I think there will be a lot of energy," Williams said of returning to where The O'Jays started. Popular songs also include “Livin’ For The Weekend," "I Love Music," "Forever Mine," “Use Ta Be My Girl," "Put Your Hands Together" and "Time to Get Down." Recording and performing since the 1960s, the R&B vocal group brings a legacy of seven Billboard top 20 songs to their hometown, including the enduring hits "Love Train," "For the Love of Money" and "Backstabbers." The O'Jays earned 10 gold albums and nine platinum albums, as well as three Grammy nominations for Best R&B Vocal. Fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Gladys Knight is the opening act scheduled for 7 p.m. The O'Jays will be headlining a show on the "Last Stop On The Love Train" tour at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium presented by the Hall of Fame Village. But as the conversation shifted to music and Saturday's Canton homecoming concert, he spoke only with vigor and pep. More: O'Jays and 'Love Train' farewell tour making Canton stop with Gladys Knight in SeptemberĪ serious tone filled the Canton native's voice during a telephone interview last week as he recalled his bout with the coronavirus. "And that frightened me, and I asked the nurse if I was going to be all right, and she told me I would be fine." "When I became conscious, I remember a priest coming in and giving me last rites," said Williams, who was hospitalized for more than a month. "I needed dialysis because my kidneys had stopped working, and they took me to a ward, and I remember the guy who was pushing my bed asked the other guy who opened the door, 'Is this a warm body room or is this a cold body room?,' and they said, 'This is a warm body room,' and they pushed me in there. "I stayed in that coma for about a week-and-a-half and I woke up," the 79-year-old Williams recalled. ![]() The O'Jays singer had contracted COVID-19 around Christmas, and then fell into a diabetic coma. was severely ill with COVID and had been admitted into a Las Vegas hospital at the onset of the pandemic. ![]()
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