Artist	Song
The O'Jays	Love Train
from The Ultimate O'Jays (2001)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes & Teddy Pendergrass	If You Don't Know Me By Now
from The Ultimate Blue Notes (2001)
Don Renaldo and His String & Horn Sections & MFSB	T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)
from The Best of MFSB: Love is the Message (1995)
Jerry Butler	Only the Strong Survive
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Jerry Butler (2000)
Patti LaBelle	If Only You Knew
from I'm In Love Again (2007)
Teddy Pendergrass	Turn Off the Lights
from The Essential Teddy Pendergrass (2007)
The Three Degrees	When Will I See You Again
from The Best of The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again (1996)
The Jones Girls	You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else
from The Jones Girls (2007)
The Intruders	I'll Always Love My Mama
from The Best of the Intruders - Cowboys to Girls (1995)
People's Choice	Do It Any Way You Wanna
from The Sound of Philadelphia: Gamble & Huff's Greatest Hits (2008)
The Jacksons	Enjoy Yourself
from The Essential Jacksons (2004)
Joe Simon	Power of Love
from Joe Simon: Greatest Hits - The Spring Years (1997)
Soul Survivors	Expressway to Your Heart
from Sweet & Soulful Sounds of the 60's (Re-Recorded Versions) (2007)
Leon Huff	I Ain't Jivin', I'm Jammin'
from Here to Create Music (2007)
Kenny Gamble	You Don't Know What You Got Until Your Lose It
from Yo Philadelphia - Look What I Found (2006)
The Ebonys	You're the Reason Why
from The Ebonys (2003)
The O'Jays	Use Ta Be My Girl
from So Full of Love (2007)
Teddy Pendergrass	Close the Door
from The Essential Teddy Pendergrass (2007)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes & Teddy Pendergrass	I Miss You
from The Ultimate Blue Notes (2001)
The Intruders	Cowboys to Girls
from The Best of the Intruders - Cowboys to Girls (1995)
Joe Simon	Drowning In the Sea of Love
from Joe Simon: Greatest Hits - The Spring Years (1997)
The O'Jays	For the Love of Money
from The Ultimate O'Jays (2001)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes & Teddy Pendergrass	The Love I Lost
from The Ultimate Blue Notes (2001)
Archie Bell & The Drells	I Can't Stop Dancing
from I Can't Stop Dancing (2007)
Jean Carn	Free Love
from Jean Carn (2008)
The Jacksons	Find Me a Girl
from The Essential Jacksons (2004)
Wilson Pickett	Engine Number 9 (Single Version)
from In Philadelphia (2007)
Patty & The Emblems	Mixed-Up, Shook-Up Girl
from Mixed-Up, Shook-Up Girl (2006)
Dee Dee Warwick	I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
from I Want to Be With You - The Mercury/Blue Rock Sessions (2001)
Candy & the Kisses	The 81
from Cameo Parkway 1957-1967 (Original Hit Recordings) (2005)
The Sapphires	Who Do You Love
from Best Of The Sapphires (2005)
Kenny Gamble & the Romeos	The Jokes On You
from Storm Warning: Philly Original Soul Classics, Vol. 1 (1998)
Leon Huff & The Lavanders	The Slide
from Yo Philadelphia - Look What I Found (2006)

Comment:

As they say, success has many parents, but Philadelphia International Records founders Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff are undeniably the [i]soul[/i] of Philly Soul . . . and these are their children. In fact, Leon Huff wasn't much more than a kid himself when Patty & The Emblems cut his first hit as a songwriter, the finger-poppin'-perfect "Mixed-Up, Shook-Up Girl." The very next year, Huff formed one of the most potent partnerships in songwriting history with Kenny Gamble, whose Romeos (which also featured a young Thom Bell) slinked and finger-pointed their way up the local charts with the duo's first collaboration, "The Jokes On You." By 1969, the team was on its way to becoming an unstoppable hit-making force, with G&H co-penning and producing ex-Impression Jerry Butler's school-of-hard-knocks sermon (and his biggest solo hit), "Only the Strong Survive," while laying down the signature sound that would become their label's calling card. But on the O'Jays' "Love Train," they hit the trifecta: a sumptuous sound, a message that couldn't be denied, and the top of every chart that mattered. From "Me and Mrs. Jones" to "T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)," we've got track after track of soul satisfaction from a duo whose pen seems to write in only one color: gold.

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