Taking Sides: Motown (The Sound of Detroit) v. Gamble & Huff (The Sound of Philadelphia)

(Marcello, the phrase "underemployed Norwegian imbecile" is so matter-of-fact and dead-on and really rude all at once it cracks me up something fierce. nice one.)

marcello i started a thom bell vs gamble and huff thread which might have stuff for you on it

How many number one hits did Motown have?
How many number one hits did Philly have?

I think you have to take that into consideration too when you look at the number of compilations etc...

GET OFF THIS FUCKING THREAD. SHUT UP. WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR WORTHLESS OPINIONS OR YOUR WORTHLESS LIFE.

GOT IT?

During that time, Motown artists like Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye were getting away from Motown model of producer/artist and making the calls themselves.

What Gamble and Huff were trying to do was completely based upon how Motown was run, but they had their own production sound, which many producers of that period seemed to emulate. Bowie even tried to channel their sound somewhat on "Young Americans", which says how influential their sound became.

Carlin, in case you haven't bothered to read the top fifteen or so posts, this is NOT YOUR THREAD. People are perfectly entitled to talk about stuff unrelated to your question, even if they are talking complete nonsense. Fuck's sake...

(maybe only I get this joke)

Anyhow, Philly soul (great btw) gave way to 'disco' (not good, as in bee gees/whitebread stuff). That was what was bad. 'disco' eventually gave way to idunno better stuff.

FWIW, i never liked chic/beegees/etc, but things got better. oh yes they did.

http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/images/29/r33.jpg

is it because i attacked him?

one law for carlin, another law for everybody else on ilx part 2450.

you people would probably come out in favour of paedophilia if i attacked it.

so let's get rid of this relativism. hongro is a stinking racist piece of shit who, if the moderators had any guts at all, would long have been banned from these boards.

his mother should have had an abortion rather than make us suffer.

in future when i ask a question on ilm or ilx i expect relevant answers. if you can't give them, keep your shit to yourself.

in what way do we suffer, really?

I'm not defending him.

I'm just finding it weird like a mondo film.

The sad answer to your question AFAIK Marcello is "apart from the one Matos mentioned there aren't any good ones in the UK", the fashion in soul and disco reissues seems to cycle along with the fashion in pop reissues, so it's all 80s soul weekender stuff now and no love for Philly. It's hard to find on soulseek too :(

Xpost: if you want Geir to be banned ask on the Mods board Marcello. As it stands I don't think anything he does merits banning - he has some spectacularly wrong-headed ideas which he debates politely and without flaming or threatening other people. It's also not as if he's the thin end of any unpleasant wedge or is corrupting the hearts and minds of ILM - everyone disagrees with him all the time.

I ch-ch-choose THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA - those strings get me every time.

http://citypaper.net/articles/2003-08-07/cover.shtml

After four decades of lying dormant, a collection of unproduced tracks from the defunct Philly Groove label may one day find its way onto your playlist thanks to a partnership between Drexel and New York music publisher Reservoir.

http://drexelmagazine.org/2015/07/drexel-helps-long-gone-music-label-get-its-groove-back/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/arts/music/joe-tarsia-dead.html

RIP Joe Tarsia engineer at his own Sigma studio in Philadelphia who worked on many a Philly soul record in the 70s