Various Artists - Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia - Amazon.com Music Interesting Finds Updated. By The O'Jays. Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia - Live in Concert FuLL'M.o.V.i.E'2009'HD'FrEE*. This video is unavailable. Watch Queue Queue. Watch Queue Queue.

Like and the style known as 'Philly Soul' was born largely of one label, in this case the city's own Philadelphia International Records, headed by the songwriting and production team of Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff. The duo first struck gold in the late Sixties on Atlantic, creating such classics as The Soul Survivors' 'Expressway To Your Heart,' The Intruders' 'Cowboys To Girls,' and 'Only The Strong Survive.' Their signature sound -- sweet pop-soul with a funky but simple backbeat, laden with strings and horns and the occasional sitar-like guitar -- struck a chord with R&B fans who wanted something less abrasive than pure and their successes led them to found their own label in 1971. The label picked up its first hit that year with a creation of Philadelphia International's other great production/songwriting team, Gene McFadden and John Whitehead: The O'Jays' breakthrough hit, 'Back Stabbers.' But the next single by the group, 'Love Train,' bore the Gamble and Huff stamp and defined the new genre perfectly. Thom Bell, another producer at the label, helped create the ballad sound of Philly Soul with the Delfonics' late-Sixties hits, and would later move to other labels and oversee big hits in the style with the Stylistics and the Spinners. The rest of the decade's R&B was ruled in part by Philly Soul, as even artists not associated with the genre capitalized on the sound's popularity with smashes like Hall and Oates' 'Sara Smile,' Lou Rawls' 'You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine,' and ode to the sound, 'Philadelphia Freedom.'

Ironically, Philly Soul's lush romanticism and simple funk gave birth to the rise of disco later in the decade, a genre which would eventually supplant it, though the genre's stars merely adapted slightly to stay popular. Gravelysilenthouseofdeadlockce [c&c]. 'Love Train,' The O'Jays Perhaps the ultimate in Philly Soul, a relentlessly upbeat anthem of racial harmony released at a time when American race relations were arguably at their nadir. (The Sound of Philadelphia),' MFSB The greatest of the Philly Soul instrumentals, a sort of template for the sound performed by the Philadelphia International house band (and, oddly, their resident trio of backup vocalists, the Three Degrees). 'When Will I See You Again,' The Three Degrees The Degrees got their own huge pop hit with this yearning ballad, a Gamble-Huff wonder tricked out with sighs and coos so fetching it got them a spot playing for England's Prince Charles! 'Could It Be I'm Falling In Love,' The Spinners Written by two of Atlantic's stable of songwriters, set up by lead vocalist Bobby Smith, driven home by the improv of other lead vocalist Philippe Wynne, and topped off with French horns that only Philly Soul could make sound majestic. 'Break Up To Make Up,' The Stylistics Perhaps the genre's greatest ballad, this time given extra emotional weight by the weird sitar-like sounds that were a Philly Soul trademark and the secret weapon of Russell Thompkins' freakishly gorgeous falsetto. 'Hey There Lonely Girl,' Eddie Holman Holman was the genre's other great falsetto, and this repurposed Ruby and the Romantics flop was his ticket to stardom. Audi Radio Code Keygen Music on this page.