Total Soul Classics Bundle from PopMarket.com

By • August 11, 2011 • Comments Off

Looking for that perfect Soul bundle? Well, PopMarket.com can help you with that. PopMarket.com is offering expanded editions of some of the best-selling and most influential Soul albums in history! Six CD’s with 54 tracks of total soul classics. These are newly expanded, limited edition digipaks with BONUS tracks added.

PopMarket.com is a “Deal of the Day” site for music & they offer other promotions as well as discounts on music products. This is worth a look! Visit www.PopMaket.com to see the Total Soul Classics bundle.

The Total Soul Classics Bundle features:

Teddy Pendergrass “Life Is A Song Worth Singing” & “Teddy Pendergrass”
The O’Jays “Backstabbers”
Billy Paul “360 Degrees of Billy Paul”
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes “Wake Up Everybody”
Leon Huff “Here To Create Music”

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Gamble & Huff To Be Honored With 2011 Outstanding Achievement Award

By • February 9, 2011 • No Comments

Gamble & Huff

Gamble & Huff

NARM is happy to announce that it will honor the legendary producer-songwriter duo Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff with the 2011 Outstanding Achievement Award for Musical Collaboration. The presentation will take place during the Convention Awards Dinner Finale on Thursday evening, May 12.

“This year marks the 40th anniversary of Gamble and Huff’s iconic Philadelphia International Records label, and next year will be the 50th anniversary of their incredible musical partnership,” said Jim Donio, NARM President. “There seemed no better time to honor these two creative visionaries, who brought the world countless songs and sounds that defined a generation.”

Read the full press release on www.narm.com

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Philly Soul Classics on Popmarket.com

By • February 9, 2011 • No Comments

Visit popmarket.com this week to see the exclusive members only offers based on the Philly Soul sound. We are talking about bundles & CD/DVD products.

Among the bundles, there is one titled “TOTAL SOUL CLASSICS BUNDLE.” It includes expanded editions of some of the best-selling and most influential Soul albums in history!

  • 6 CDs
  • 54 total soul classics!
  • Newly expanded with BONUS tracks
  • Limited Edition Digipaks

Essential Lou Rawls Essential Teddy Pendergrass Essential Patti LaBelle
Essential O’Jays Essential Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

Another bundle titled “Essential Philly Soul Bundle.” These are definitive career-spanning collections from these Soul superstars: Lou Rawls, Teddy Pendergrass, Patti LaBelle, The O’Jays and Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes!

  • 5 Legends of the Philly Soul sound
  • 9 CDs
  • 141 soul classics!
  • #1 Hits, smash duets, rarities and more!
  • Digitally Remastered

So join popmarket.com to see these great deals & more!

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Philly International at SXSW Music Conference this year

By • February 3, 2011 • No Comments

The SXSW Music Conference, taking place March 16-19 in Austin, TX, presents a series of music history panels in addition to our sessions covering the nuts and bolts of the business. One of the panels this year is titled, TSOP: Celebrating Gamble, Huff and Philadelphia International Records, where you’ll be able to explore the unique soul phenomenon with Gamble and Huff via video conference from Philadelphia.

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Bernie Wilson of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, dies at 64

By • January 3, 2011 • No Comments

Bernie Wilson

Bernie Wilson

Bernie Wilson died on December 26, 2010, at the age of sixty-four, due to complications of a stroke and heart attack. Wilson was a North Philadelphia native who grew up in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood.

Wilson is apart of the legendary group Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Wilson helped to define the “Sound of Philadelphia” in the 1970s.

Let us celebrate the life of Bernie Wilson by way of the music he has left behind. Rest In Peace Bernie Wilson!

Enjoy the Music, courtesy of LegacyRecordings.com.

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Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia, Part 1

Love Train - The Sound of Philadelphia CD People Get Ready... for a very special musical celebration! Come back to a time when hometown radio & LP records ruled the day, and your local DJ hand-picked songs and dedicated them to the one you loved. You'll enjoy timeless hits that are as fresh today as when they came out of a small Philadelphia recording studio under the direction of two visionary music producers, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, who, with their family of singers, musicians, writers and arrangers, gave birth to the glorious and soulful "Sound of Philadelphia."

This dynamic concert features The O'Jays, Harold Melvin's Blue Notes, Russell Thompkins and the New Stylistics, Jerry Butler, The Soul Survivors, The Delphonics, The Three Degrees, Bunny Sigler, G.C. Cameron, and Jean Carne, along with the 28-piece TSOP Orchestra.




Brand New Box Set: 71 songs on 4-CDs including 30 #1 Hits!

Love Train - The Sound of Philadelphia Box Set Over four hours of American standards that defined an era including "Love Train," If You Don't Know Me By Now," "Me & Mrs. Jones," "For The Love of Money," "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now," "Enjoy Yourself" and "I'll Be Around"

Deluxe 64-page book includes rare photographs and new essays

Featuring 33 legendary artists including The O'Jays, Teddy Pendergrass, The Jacksons, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, The Spinners, Patti Labelle, The Stylistics, Billy Paul, The Delfonics, Lou Rawls, The Three Degrees, MFSB, The Intruders, Soul Survivors and Jerry Butler.