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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 …

R&B vocalist, composer, and manufacturer John Whitehead remains to be most widely known for the smash “Ain’t Zero Stoppin’ Us Today,” the disco-era common he recorded with longtime collaborator Gene McFadden. Blessed July 2, 1948, Whitehead and McFadden had been raised within the same impoverished Philadelphia community. Still in senior …

Philly soul drummer Earl Small kept the master about countless hits appearing out of the town of Brotherly Like through the ’60s, ’70s, and middle-’80s. As one-third of the traditional Baker-Harris-Young tempo section that included bassist Ron Baker and guitarist Norman Harris, Youthful played on strikes from the Intruders, the …