"If You Don't Know Me By Now," "The Love I Lost," "The Soul Train
Theme," "Then Came You," "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"--the
distinctive music that became known as Philly Soul dominated the
pop music charts in the 1970s. In A House on Fire, John A. Jackson
takes us inside the musical empire created by Kenny Gamble, Leon
Huff, and Thom Bell, the three men who put Philadelphia Soul on the
map.
Here is the eye-opening story of three of the most influential and
successful music producers of the seventies. Jackson shows how
Gamble, Huff, and Bell developed a black recording empire second
only to Berry Gordy's Motown, pumping out a string of chart-toppers
from Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the Spinners, the O'Jays,
the Stylistics, and many others. The author underscores the endemic
racism of the music business at that time, revealing how the three
men were blocked from the major record companies and outlets in
Philadelphia because they were black, forcing them to create their
own label, sign their own artists, and create their own sound. The
sound they created--a sophisticated and glossy form of rhythm and
blues, characterized by crisp, melodious harmonies backed by lush,
string-laden orchestration and a hard-driving rhythm section--was a
glorious success, producing at least twenty-eight gold or platinum
albums and thirty-one gold or platinum singles. But after their
meteoric rise and years of unstoppable success, their production
company finally failed, brought down by payola, competition, a
tough economy, and changing popular tastes.
Funky, groovy, soulful--Philly Soul was the classic seventies
sound. A House on Fire tells the inside story of this remarkable
musical phenomenon.
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