Originally Posted by
manny
Hello, Jim and all!
Great stuff by you all and great work on your great blog, Jim.
Sadly I have been without time for nothing during months and... I have seen your post and visited your blog TODAY [[!!). What a great pleasure as I'm a spanish Philly Soul lover since my teens.
[[My first vynil adquisition at 14 years - old was "Ship Ahoy" album by The O'Jays, after I was immediately in love with the song "Put Your Hands Together" that everyday was played on the turntable in the restaurant were I started working at the summer when finished the course in High Scool. I comes to the music store, they don't have the compilation "El Sonido de Filadelfia, Vol. 1" that sounded in the restaurant but they have the LP were belongs my favorite song). Since the summer of 1975 on, I never stoped to hear Soul music [[and jazz and fusion and other styles) but along the years I have spend thousands of hours hearding my favorite sound and artists: the sublime symphonic soul of Philadelphia and Chicago [[from The Chi-lites and Curtis to Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, passing trough Soulful Strings, MFSB, Jerry Butler, Bunny Sigler and Dee Dee Sharp).
A question that intrigate me is how difficult could be to compiles info about the quantity and diversity of Philly Soul outside productions [[if we consider the artists and labels who worked with G & H, Thom Bell, B-H-Y, V. Montana, B. Eli... from Fania All-Stars to Stanley Turrentine, passing trough Eddie Kendricks... from Capitol and Spring Records to Motown... the volume of the "Philly soul outside prods. stuff perhaps is bigger than the stuff from the strictly "Philly labels"...).
Cheers to all!