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William DeVaughn

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American R&B singer, songwriter and guitarist

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United States
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1947-11-28
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William DeVaughn (b 1948, Washington D.C.) is an American R&B singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known for the hit song "Be Thankful for What You Got". DeVaughn was a salaried government employee as a drafting technician (according to Casey Kasem,[citation needed] he designed sewers), part-time singer, and member of the Jehovah's Witnesses.[citation needed] He wrote "A Cadillac Don`t Come Easy" eventually re-written to become "Be Thankful for What You Got " in 1972 <a href="https://www.last.

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5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 61,628x

  2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 43,942x

  3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 39,021x

  4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,751x

  5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

    · 1958 · cited 28,537x

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1947-11-28
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