Tag Archives: MFSB

LOVE TRAIN – THE GAMBLE AND HUFF SONGBOOK.

♦ June 26, 2025 ♦ Leave a comment

Love Train – The Gamble and Huff Songbook. Label: Kent Soul. Format: CD. Release Date: 27th June 2025. Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff have been familiar faces on the Philly music scene since the early sixties. The pair first played on a session by Candy and The Kisses in October 1964. Gamble cowrote ‘The 81’ …

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THOM BELL-DIDN’T I BLOW YOUR MIND? THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA 1969-1983.

♦ June 27, 2024 ♦ Leave a comment

Thom Bell-Didn’t I Blow Your Mind? The Sound Of Philadelphia Soul 1969-1983. Label: Kent. Format: CD. During the late-sixties and seventies, Thom Bell was one of the architects of Philly Soul, and worked with everyone from The Delfonics, The Stylistics and The Spinners to M.F.S.B., The O’Jays, Three Degrees and New York City. Artists came …

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TRIBAL RITES OF THE NEW SATURDAY NIGHT-BROOKLYN DISCO 1974-5.

♦ June 29, 2023 ♦ 2 Comments

Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night-Brooklyn Disco 1974-5. Label: Ace Records. Release Date: 30th June 2023. Londonderry-born writer Nik Cohn moved to New York in 1975, and started writing for New York magazine. One of his first assignments was documenting a new underground movement in the clubs of Brooklyn and Queens. These discos were …

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