Gamble and Huff
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Kenneth Gamble and Leon A. Huff are an American songwriting and production duo credited for developing the Philadelphia soul music genre of the 1970s. In addition to forming their own label, Philadelp
Gamble (left) and Huff (right), 1995
Teddy Pendergrass
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Theodore DeReese Pendergrass was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was born in Kingstree, South Carolina. Pendergrass lived most of his life in the Philadelphia area, and initially ro
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…Friday Night 6pm newscasts. As of 2018, WRC was still using this music. In 1982, Philadelphia International's biggest star, former Blue Notes singer Teddy Pendergrass, became paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident, and the future of the label came to be in doubt. That year, Philadelphia broke its ties with…
Pendergrass in 2000
Pendergrass in 1979
Grave of Teddy Pendergrass at West Laurel Hill Cemetery