BBE Music presents a brand new album celebrating one of Philadelphia soul music’s most iconic figures, Teddy Pendergrass, remixed by pioneering producer and engineer, John Morales.
This exploration of 1970s Philly soul at its apex focuses on one of the era’s defining voices, Theodore DeReese Pendergrass. Born in Philadelphia in 1950, Pendergrass sang church music at age two, and was ordained a minister at ten years old. Having learned drums and played in local bands during his teens, at 20 he was hired as a drummer for the Blue Notes by group leader Harold Melvin. After being spotted singing along onstage, he was soon appointed lead singer, and the rest is history…
The masterful, revealing remix work of John Morales affords these classic songs improved clarity, allowing each individual player more space to be heard and modernising the recordings without ever losing sight of the original spirit. The virtuoso quality of the songwriting, production, arrangements and performances shine forth anew, and so do some of the music’s subtler qualities and nuanced, sometimes conflicted, subtexts that might have been overlooked in the most conventional view of Pendergrass in his prime.
Curated authoritatively, remixed with love and passion, John Morales’ collection revisits our relationship with Teddy’s and Gamble & Huff’s music as compellingly and immersively as when it was new. Teddy’s timeless force resides equally in his talent for portraying truthfully the joys and hurts, beliefs and doubts, blessings and challenges of our lives, and in the bravery of confronting them all with an honesty that is still utterly extraordinary.
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Check out the tracks below
Teddy Pendergrass – The More I Want, The More I Get
Teddy Pendergrass – Only You
Teddy Pendergrass – If You Know Like I Know
Teddy Pendergrass – Now Is The Time TO Do IT
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes – The Love I Lost
Teddy Pendergrass – I Don’t Love You Anymore
Teddy Pendergrass – Come Go With Me
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes – Bad Luck
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes – If You Don’t Know Me By Now
Teddy Pendergrass – You Can’t Hide From Yourself
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes – Where Are All My Friends
Teddy Pendergrass – Life Is A Song Worth Singing
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes – Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Take Your Love Back)
Teddy Pendergrass – Do Me
Teddy Pendergrass – Somebody Told Me
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes – Is There A Place For Me
Teddy Pendergrass – Turn Off The Lights
Teddy Pendergrass – Don’t Leave Me This Way
