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Mr. Ashford and his songwriting partner and later wife, Valerie Simpson, composed hits for Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan and themselves.

Casey Abrams wasn't squeezed out of "American Idol." The fiery 20-year-old film camp counselor from Idyllwild, Calif., who stomped through Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" on Wednesday, was revealed to have received the fewest viewer votes on Thursday, but the judges unanimously decided to save Abrams in the middle of his last-chance performance of Ray Charles' "I Don't Need No Doctor."

Jamie Foxx will always have a knack for the funny, as we see in his Mike Tyson impression at the top of the below video. He's completely serious about what his plans are for the headline-grabbing boxer however. Foxx plans to do with Tyson what he previously did with singer Ray Charles in "Ray," which ...