RIP Teddy Pendergrass

[bevosayshi]

www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/14/teddy.pendergrass.obit/index.html

RIP TP

 

[SigPi_Horn]

A lot of us are here today because of Teddy P.

 

[buckhorn]

RIP

 

[WorsterMan]

This greatly saddens me... RIP TP

TP and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes were classics and one of my Motown favorites.

 

[FAST FRED]

I certainly can't speak for Teddy Pendergrass, but I suspect he might rest a bit more easily if he and Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes were remembered as being a major part of TSOP, The Sound of Philadelphia, rather than being credited to MoTown.

Both are wonderful American musical traditions for sure, with TSOP being more, I think, purely soulful per se, while MoTown was great Soul Music infused with a healthy and, I believe, defining amount of Pop.

Please forgive the anality of my analysis and RIP Teddy; however, if we don't know him by now, we may never, never know him.

I just thought such an easily made error in artistic affiliation would have been regrettable, had it passed uncorrected.