McFadden & Whitehead

A Philadelphia songwriting, creation, and executing duo who have been prominent at Philadelphia International through the ’70s, Gene McFadden and John Whitehead also scored lots one R&B hit as vocalists. Their one “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Today” was number 1 R&B in 1979 and peaked at amount 13 pop. Both were members from the Epsilons as teenagers, a music group that toured with and had been maintained by Otis Redding until his loss of life in 1967. They afterwards agreed upon with Stax and acquired a moderate strike in 1970 with “The Echo.” When Lloyd Parkes still left, McFadden & Whitehead transformed their name to Chat of the city and began dealing with Gamble & Huff. Although these were getting primed to record for North Bay, when Gamble & Huff uncovered the duo’s composing talents, they chose instead to hire them for the reason that capability at their label, Philadelphia International. Their initial collaboration came over the Intruders’ “I’ll Generally Appreciate My Mama.” They afterwards wrote and/or created such classics as “Backstabbers” for the O’Jays; “MISFORTUNE” and “AWAKEN Everybody” for Harold Melvin & the Blue Records; and “Let’s Groove,” “Spirit Town Walk,” “Technique,” and “DON’T ALLOW Like Get You Straight down” for Archie Bell & the Drells. In addition they caused Carolyn Crawford and do outside projects through the ’70s and ’80s with Melba Moore, Gloria Gaynor, Freddie Jackson, Willie Collins, and Beau Williams. The duo cut their very own record, McFadden & Whitehead, in 1979 and produced even more singles for TSOP in 1980 — like the Best 30 R&B strike “I Noticed It within a Like Melody” — as well as for Capitol in 1982. In 2004, Whitehead was shot and wiped out, thought to be a sufferer of mistaken identification. Two years afterwards, McFadden’s lifestyle was used by cancer. By 2013, Whitehead’s murder continued to be unsolved and was a topic of Television One’s series Superstar Crime Files.