Induction of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Songwriters-producers and record label owners Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff made Philadelphia the soul capitol in the 1970s. Gamble and Huffs label Philadelphia International had a stable of artists that included the OJays, McFadden & Whitehead, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Lou Rawls and Dee Dee Sharp. Their records featured the duos trademark sound: lush string orchestrations, a powerful rhythm section and a disco beat. They also worked with Dusty Springfield, Wilson Pickett, and Jerry Butler among others. In 1990, Gamble and Huff won a Grammy for best R&B song, awarded for Simply Reds cover of the Blue Notes 1972 hit If You Dont Know Me By Know. And in 1999, they won the Grammy Trustees Award.
Also watch the great performance by Patti LaBelle. Presented by Jerry Butler.
Mr. Gamble and Huff are my 🎶 musical heros. Also, Mr. Thom Bell .R.I.P who was a major part of their production team that created music that will forever be timeless. ♥ 😍 ♥ TSOP
Honestly, they should make their story into a movie. So many great songs and groups. Just love everything about them.
Yes
These brothas put A REAL MESSEGE in the music. The GREATEST songwriters of ALL TIME.
the masonic pose at 5:50
same as Malcolm X
The O'jays, Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes, etc. This is a wonderul honor but still not enough. They deserve even more!
Ok!!!
...and it will sound better tomorrow. Thank You Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff!
Fifty years from now, we'll still be jammin' to Gamble & Huff music, just as we enjoy Holland-Dozier-Holland hits today as their oldest hits reach their golden anniversaries.
The H-D-H team hit first with Martha and The Vandellas on "Come and Get These Memories" in 1963. I count "Cowboys to Girls" (The Intruders, 1967) as G&H's first national hit. Seemed like everything each team touched turned to gold, beacuse all could produce as well as write for their artists.
Love my city!! Gamble & Huff, SB Champs, Lots of Philly celebs - Cosby, Will Smith, Kevin Hart, Jill Scott, Pink, Hall & Oates Patti Labelle, and the list goes on. Philly is still winning and has won big. Would not want to live anywhere else.
I like yall style!!!I wanna taste yall famous Philly 🧀 steaks.
Don't forget that Philly was the "Birthplace" of American Bandstand, as well as Karen Young (Hot Shot) (RIP), Len Barry (123), Vickie Sue Robinson (Turn The Beat Around), and Hall & Oates in terms of Blue Eyed Soul. It also were pioneers of the LGBT Community.
We will be listening to, and loving the music produced by Gamble and Huff decades from now, for one simple reason: what they wrote appeals to something deep inside, and is not subject to fad or fashion. Bravo to both of them, and thank you for posting this great video.
So true. What year were they inducted? So well deserved. Although I was a baby and small child during their heyday.
Two words.... Pure Genius !!
The sound track of my life thanks kenny and Leon and all the myriads of Philly artists and musicians for the sound track of my life love from england
Sang Ms. Patti🙌🏿
Monique Brown q
PATTI KILLS IT!!!!
Every Time ❤
Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff's MUSIC has truly touched my life. Ever since I was young boy their MUSIC has been a great inspiration and will always be a part of me while living on this planet called earth.
I hope and pray that their MUSIC is appreciated in heaven. I thank them for not only their contribution to the MUSIC industry but to the human spirit. Thank you Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff and thank you GOD for creating such beautiful MUSIC.
- ♫ ♫ Anthony Figgiani ♫ ♫
Enough cannot be said about Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff,and how their wonderful music inspired,encouraged,influenced and entertained so many people over the years throughout the world.An incomparable production duo.True music icons and legends.We thank them for their talents and gift of song.A well deserved award.Well earned.!!!🎷🎹🌎🎺👑🎻🎼👍🎤🌍🎧🎼📷⛅😎💖💖💖🌷🌷🌷💐
cant forget Thom Bell and Linda Creed..
Don't leave out the Delfonics, Intruders back in the '60's.
These guys are a special gift to this world 🌎 They are the reason for the success of so many groups who we love today. O'Jays TP Delfonics Dramatics and the list keep going on and on and on unending. Sad that we lost Mr. Bell who added to the Trinity. They earned this moment in time please continue to write ans play music for us!!!
I remember buying my first LP ever back in 1970 in Hollywood, California, and it was a Gamble & Huff production......The LP was : " " THE ICE MAN COMETH " "
Who else ???? The GREAT Jerry Butler ! ! Never Give You UP !
No matter how you treat me.....................Sierra Cuban, Miami, Florida
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From I can see they are the most important musicians of the XX century. There is nobody near to so many hit records. But at same time few people know them.
The sound of Philadelphia Gamble and Huff along with Thom bell should get the tributes that are also praised for Motown the music was top notch as well as motown both great companiesMotown was the sound of the he sixties and Philly was the sound of the seventies !!!
Linda creed
The Godfathers of House Music, Dance Music and The Philly Sound..G & H!
I'm glad this amazing dual got this honor. They made a lot of people stars.
Damn right it still sounds good today and it always will..Thank you Gentlemen!
One day me and my homeboy will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
I have the same dream brother, let’s keep working hard!
As little as I want to walk a similar journey as we should have been able to complete decades ago...my heart is so happy to hear these songs again, so sad that it is again in connection to more loss of valuable life. I continue to love even the haters, my biggest challenge, thankful for my blessings, thankful for the paths I have walked. Sad so many hearts still are closed, thankful we have gifts new and jewels of the past to remind us that God continues to send us the ability to find joy...Thank You, Thank You, Thank You...
The Jaggerz' first LP was produced by Gamble & Huff called 'Introducing The Jaggerz' in 1968. They brought the Blue Eyed Soul to the Philly Sound Machine. The artists they covered would come to their shows to hear them. James Brown came to hear 'that white boy that does my song' A Man's World. He was talking about Billy Maybray Sr.
I hope people like these get special points in Heaven. When you help people out by way of their careers or anything, to me that is LOVE.
Patti LaBelle definitely deserves to be inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
I agree. TSOP is alive in Neo-Soul.
To me? They were even better than Holland-Dozier-Holland....Philly Soul took over when Motown died...and it was the epitome of old school R&B, and the precursor to Disco!!!
Don't know about old school...I thought Gamble and Huff were ahead of their time with their use of a full orchestra (MFSB) in most of their recordings! At Motown, they had the incomprable Funk Brothers, of course, at H-D-H's call. These two groups and The James Brown Band/Orchestra were the best big bands in Rock/R&B history. Combo-sized groups...give me the Stax house band from Memphis and Fame Studio Group out of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. And those famous studios...The Motown Snakepit, Sigma Sound, King Records, the old Stax converted theater and Fame Studios...what history!
Jim Vulcan --- I'm from Detroit, and I Agree!
They had a better rapport with their Artists then Motown did. The Spinners did better with them then at Motown.
Jim Vulcan both are amazing Tamla and Philly.the music of my life...
Not better or worse than, but in addition to. They were both great songwriting teams.
SARAH, NONA AND PATTI LABELLE archetypes of the sounds of America. Where you at Rock and Roll hall of fame!!!!!! Get to know our music history.
How do I describe The Philly Sound? Smoooooooooooth.
Big up to you Brother Ken Gamble and Brother Leon Huff what a phenomenal record production team in Philadelphia.
The hits they wrote for the O’Jays, the Jacksons, the Bluenotes and Billy Paul.
Wow! A chance meeting brought us a 40+ year soundtrack of soul stirring music. Surreal!
I think it is shortsighted to argue one writing team over another. Holland-Dozier-Holland contributed some great hits to our culture but of course so did Gamble and Huff. That is the beauty of art. Artists create their own style, sound and feel and the people benefit. Gamble and Huff most def. had their own distinct brand--very unique and funky sound. Holland-Dozier-Holland also hand their own sound. I would argue that both groups of writers enjoyed each others music.
Ang still Miss Patti aint inducted yet 2020
How did the Ojays reach the Rock and Roll HOF before Gamble and Huff? Does that make sense? They should have been inducted during their first year of eligibility. Period.
fantastic songwriters
Ain't it time to induct Patti Labelle. Look at her history. From the early days of creating a sound that influenced the world. No blueprints to be followed. She had raw talent that was showcased on the chillin circuits and the Apollo Theatre. Elton John was once her drummer. She made a great Acid Queen for WHO. She has sung all genres of music with unparalleled showomanship. Rock and Roll of Fame she has earned it!!!!!!
I did not know Elton was her drummer.
Yes she been deserved to be in the Rock and Roll HOF and they are fulla of it for passing her up after all these yrs
These cats are my idol strings dope rhythm and banging drums and that rhodes that's that Philly sound dope producers and true legends thank you for creating some great music.
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Genius !
I agree with you.....they needed HER band to play this. Cuase if you watch any other video of her singing this song..she WARES it OUT!
The best in the business....the pen is mightier than the sword....they won the war with their lyrics...e.g You're my latest, my greatest inspiration by Teddy Pendegrass. Philadelphia Records was my favourite.
Growing up in the 70s and listening to the Philly sound was great.
Patti was good but the band was tired. If you ever hear her perform this with her band you will notice the difference how the band knows how to roll with her and knows how to pump Patti up and help her to take us Over the Rainbow.
In England, these guys have gained "Cult" Status. The Three Degrees are like honorary daughters, and over the years as you know alot of UK Folks have covered their Songs. Simply Red, The Communards (with Jimmy Somerville) and Dusty Springfield. "If You Don't Know Me By Now" was covered by Ricky Gervais as his Role as David Brent on The Office (UK), Sterling Gallacher is former Co-Star sang a snippet on The UK Soap Opera The Doctors.
and 5:10, Billy Paul is singing with a cigarrette in his mouth. Unbelieveable.
I know right!!!
Patti!!
God damn!!!
You have my utmost respect. Brilliant artists outright. What else is there to say?
Come on......Kenny is a master of bluesy rock.(in my HUMBLE opinion)
It really takes an idiot to believe that "white America" made Soul Train a legendary success...tsk, tsk, tsk, poor fool.....On a positive note, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, by their own musical history story, were destined to become a musical team. Once united, their genius, creativity, and hard work earned them not only an induction, but the respect and admiration of fans and musicians for generations to come! May God continue to bless and use them to continually touch and inspire humanity!!
MsIamWoman Whites want credit for everything... personally I don't think they have ever had an original good idea.
Be For Real-by the Might Bluenotes, with Teddy P lyrics advises those with to be thankful.
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Teddy Pendergrass definitely deserves to be inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Jill Scott needs to make a song with gamble and huff
jjjones77....I take nothing away from Dozier & the Holland brothers and what they did at Motown, but Gamble & Huff was the legendary 1-2 punch that put Philly on the map. And as opposed to Dozier & Holland who were really working for Motown, which was already established for 2 years before they walked in the door, Gamble & Huff made it happen under their own label, which was Philadelphia International. Almost you say??? Try BETTER! ;)
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Holland dozier Holland gamble huff are the best writers in music history two different music styles different eras
what was so bad about this performace that she did here? When Patti steps out on the stage to sing people aren't expecting Gladys they are expecting Patti and when she turns it out like she did here that's what her fans expect!
then why in the hell would u click on this clip out of the millions on youtube??
What about Thom Bell?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Y'all are very childish for still comparing singers. This person sings too loud, this one is boring, this one this, this one that. Shut that shit up and watch or dont watch the video. Why click on a video of a person you dont like to say stupid shit? It makes no sense. Patti AND Gladys are BOTH great!
Ha!!! I guess you told it..
Lennon and McCartney, but then Gamble and Huff?....think about it before you say anything.
Alright now!!!
Simply Red
No lol!!
Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes featuring Teddy Pendergrass.
@rufus317 false u don't know anything bout soul train then must have been the only episode u have seen
Why?
To watch a documentary on the great Bunny Sigler - PIR recording artist, producer and Gamble & Huff collaborator - click here: th-cam.com/video/kjGxGwl6Hq0/w-d-xo.html
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he said skunk ape, am i the only one that caught that? lol
totally agreed, she cannot sing