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Guitarist/manufacturer/arranger/songwriter Norman Harris could be heard on countless Philly spirit sessions from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. He was a founding person in MFSB, the tempo/strings/horns aggregation that was the home music group for Gamble & Huff’s Philadelphia International label. As you third from the creation trio of Baker-Harris-Young, he …

Best known because of their use Chic in the past due ’70s, siblings Debbie, Kim, Joni, and Kathy Sledge — collectively Sister Sledge — reached the elevation of their reputation through the disco period but have been recording because the early ’70s and were even now mixed up in decades …

Perhaps second and then Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor is becoming among the best-known female disco artists from your ’70s because of the ongoing success of her monster 1979 hit (and subsequent “woman’s anthem”), “I’LL Survive.” Blessed Gloria Fowles on Sept 7, 1949, in Newark, NJ, the vocalist (who began heading …

Disco’s most soulful vocal group began within the ’60s because the Volcanos, and were also known as the Moods. Gene Beliefs was the initial business lead vocalist, with Earl Little, Jimmy Ellis, guitarist Dennis Harris, keyboardist Ron Kersey, organist John Hart, bassist Stanley Wade, and drummer Michael Thomas. But by …

Among the popular family acts for the ’70s R&B circuit, Memphis’ Sylvers documented for Satisfaction, MGM, Capitol, Casablanca, and Geffen throughout their 13-year graph run. A minimum of nine from the ten siblings within the family members — Olympia, Leon, Charmaine, Wayne, Edmund, Ricky, Angie, Pat, Foster — performed within …

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 …

The Bee Gees might have been the undisputed disco kings from the past due ’70s, but KC & sunlight Music group weren’t far behind. Through the middle- to past due ’70s, the multi-member and racially integrated group — led by bandleaders Harry Wayne “KC” Casey and Richard Finch — racked …

Vicki Sue Robinson turned the disco and pop music world ugly with her rousing 1976 TOP Pop smash “Convert the Defeat Around.” A solid, radiant vocalist, Robinson’s information were among among the better produced and organized ’70s disco produces, with solid beats constructed on solid music. Blessed in Harlem in …

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 …

Larry Elgart is apparently something of the unstoppable force in dance music group and big-band music, bordering on jazz mostly with the appropriation of varied swingy instrumentalists to fill up section rates. The Elgart name itself is normally legendary in this sort of music; sibling Les Elgart also fronts his …