Career
Payton sang lead on the songs "Feel Free"(from the Catfish album), "Until You Love Someone" and "The Girl From Ipanema" from the Four Tops Live! album (from their Motown days) but he was often overshadowed by the more popular Levi Stubbs. He died in 1997, aged 59, from liver cancer in Southfield, Michigan. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Payton had 11 children.