50 Years Later, Gamble and Huff’s Philly Sound Stirs the Soul
By Alan Light Published Feb. 25, 2021Updated Feb. 26, 2021 By the late 1970s, things had gotten so busy at Philadelphia International Records that the label’s co-founders, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, had to leave town to write new songs. During one trip to Jamaica, they were settling in at the piano when a power outage hit the […]
The 50 Greatest Philadelphia International Songs: Staff Picks
The 50 Greatest Philadelphia International Songs: Staff Picks By Billboard Staff2/24/2021 Fifty years ago, a new label started by two esteemed hitmakers turned the corner on the crossover soul-pop of Motown and gritty Southern R&B of Stax/Volt, which had defined the sound of Black America in the ’60s. The new label offered a new style for […]