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- Birth nameJoseph Manson Osborn
- Joe Osborn was born on August 28, 1937 in Mound, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Rude Awakening (1989), The Go!! Show (1964) and The Arthur Haynes Show (1956). He was married to Gwendolyn Sue Spears. He died on December 14, 2018 in Greenwood, Louisiana, USA.
- SpouseGwendolyn Sue Spears(1956 - February 8, 2008) (her death, 4 children)
- Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2010.
- Bass player.
- Studio session bass player, one of the Wrecking Crew of Los Angeles-based session musicians. It is Osborn you hear on the memorable and melodic bass lines on the last verse of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and throughout "Only Living Boy in NY" from the Bridge Over Troubled Water" album, as well as "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris, "California Dreaming" by The Mamas and the Papas, and The Carpenters' recording of the 1971 Best Song Academy Award-winner "For All We Know" from the film Lovers and Other Strangers (1970).
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