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group called The Soul Survivors.

First big hit for Gamble and Huff.

Took too long I got caught in the rush hour

The fellas started to shout You with love and affection Now you won't look in my direction On the expressway To your heart That expressway Not the best way At five o'clock It's much too crowded You're much too crowded So Baby, it took too long I got caught in the rush hour Those fellas started to shout You with love and affection Come on, look in my direction On the expressway To your heart That expressway That's the best way I can find a fly As much too crowded As much too crowded As much too crowded

Talking about an early member of the OJs.

He was with them in the 60s before they really blew up in the 70s as part of Philly International and all the Gamble & Huff records.

So I don't have any songs he performed with them, but, you know, an excuse to play the OJs.

Let's play some For the Love of Money.

I don't know what you call it.

But there's also a point in the 70s when our guest today became part of the incredible stable of artists that contributed to the sound of Philadelphia, helmed by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.

with such legendary songs as, you know, Free Love and Don't Let It Go to Your Head and My Love Don't Come Easy and then, of course, you know, The Immortal, Close and Then Close.

Not to mention, my song was The Flame of Love.

Like, there's so much to talk about, but, you know, April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and basically, our guest today, she makes jazz, she makes R&B, she makes disco, she does it all, and she's worked with all the legends.

All the legends work with her.

Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Jerry Butler, Eddie LaVert, Phyllis Hyman, Earl Garner, Billy Paul, Dexter Wanzell, The Temptations, Grover Washington Jr., Rick James, Dirt, George Duke, just everyone.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, so overdue, our guest, the incomparable Gene Carr into Questlove Supreme.

You know it together.

And Gamble and Huff produced this one.

And it's a great, great sound by Jimmy Ross.

So hope to see you Sunday, six to eight.

© BF-WATCH TV 2021 At the same old place, yeah Another girl, what a glimpse of his face Though I never really knew I could feel so low, yeah Until I saw him walk in ¶¶

Tonight we're taking a journey into Philadelphia sound of the mid-60s, before Gamble & Huff, before Philadelphia International, and before the polished orchestral sounds that would conquer the 70s.

This is Philadelphia when the sound was still being invented.

Tiny labels, obscure groups, one-off releases, female vocalists, harmony groups, and records that disappeared almost as quickly today.

I really feel that there should be more recognition there I know it's celebrated.

I know Gamble Huff and Tom Bell and all those groups are celebrated.

But like, you know, when you go to Motown, there's the Motown Museum.

You know, they really preserve that.

He bought the houses when they were cheap.

You know, he was, he was doing his Gamble Huff thing back in the 1970s, and they all looked so cool with their little afros, and he's in the studio with Michael Jackson and Teddy Pendergrass and all these other people.

And, and back at that time, Kenny told me, he said, uh, he said, he said, "When I got my first deal, I went to all my Black friends and tried my best to get them to partner with me to go buy property." He said they didn't wanna do that.

They wanted to buy Cadillacs and fur coats and, you know, stuff they did [laughs] in the '70s, right? They, they, they would wear a fur coat in the summertime and be the coolest guy on the block.

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With that, right now, let's hop on the love train and soak up the message in the music of the OJs with this funk jewel written and produced by legendary songwriting and production duo Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff doing it on the one and done to the empowering and inspirational thump of give the people what they want.

I love the outfits, I love the

choreography.

So there's been a lot of thinking about Teddy Pendergrass over the years.

What actually is, of course, the Philly soul music is all fantastic, but what has actually been more influential on this particular record is Philly music, but not necessarily, you know, Gamble and Huff.

Hmm.

It's been the Philly Hammond organ players, and it's, Philly has an inc- is an incredible cradle of Hammond organ, the greats, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Shirley Scott.