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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. I Don't Love You Anymore
2. When Somebody Loves You Back
3. Come Go With Me
4. Whole Town's Laughing At Me, The
5. Somebody Told Me
6. Love T.K.O.
7. You're My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration
8. And If I Had
9. Don't Leave Me This Way - (featuring Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes)
10. I Miss You - (featuring Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes)
11. Love I Lost, The - (featuring Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes)
12. Nine Times Out of Ten
13. Life is a Song Worth Singing
14. If You Don't Know Me By Now - (featuring Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes)
DISC 2:
1. Feel the Fire
2. Close the Door
3. It's Time For Love
4. Turn Off the Lights
5. Wake Up Everybody - (featuring Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes)
6. Bad Luck - (featuring Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes)
7. Only You
8. Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose
9. It Should've Been You
10. Hold Me
11. Joy
12. This Gift of Life
13. I'll Never See Heaven Again
14. I Want My Baby Back
DISC 3:
1. It's Time For Love
2. It Don't Hurt Now
3. Do Me
4. Shout and Scream - (live)
5. Everybody's Talkin' - (featuring Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes)
6. Be For Real - (featuring Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes)
7. I Can't Live Without Your Love
8. Cold, Cold World
Album Notes
Personnel: Teddy Pendergrass (congas, bongos, hand claps, percussion); Dennis Harris, Norman Harris, Roland Chambers, Anthony Bell, Bobby Eli, Cecil Womack (guitar); Sam Reed (saxophone); Leon A. Huff (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, background vocals); Lenny Pakula (organ); Thom Bell (keyboards, background vocals); Dexter Wansel, Jerry Cohen, Ron Kersey, Victor Carstarphen, Barry Eastmond (keyboards); Vince Montana (vibraphone); Karl Chambers, Quinton Joseph, Keith Benson, Daryll Burgee, Earl Young, Charles Collins (drums); David Cruse, Larry Washington (congas, bongos, hand claps, percussion); Evette Benton, Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson, Carl Helm, Joseph Jefferson, Kenneth Gamble (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Michael Hutchinson; Jeffrey Stewart; Darrell Rogers; Carl Paroulo; Quinton Joseph; Scott McMinn; Frank Luria; Jerry Block; Bruce Bluesteen; Bill Dorman; Vincent Warsavage; Dexter Wansel; Dirk Devlin; Jay Mark; Jim Dougherty; Jim Gallagher; Joe Tarsia; Michael Tarsia; Paul Martin; Peter Humphreys; Rocky Schnaars; Arthur Stoppe; Bruce Springsteen; Carla Bandini.
Recording information: Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, PA.
Photographers: Don Hunstein; Ronald Harris.
THE ESSENTIAL TEDDY PENDERGRASS is a meticulously selected and assembled collection of the R&B singer's best material. Across two discs ESSENTIAL covers all Pendergrass's biggest hits (he regularly topped the R&B charts in the late 1970s and '80s) from both his early Philadelphia International tenure and his later stint at Elektra.
Pendergrass cut some excellent uptempo dance tracks, funky workouts that made good use of his forceful pipes, and several of those are included here. But the man is best known for his romantic material, and rightfully so. His intimate, sensual croon will forever make tunes like "Turn Off the Lights" and "Close the Door" seduction staples. Those and many more are included here, making ESSENTIAL a definitive statement on Pendergrass's place in the R&B canon.
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