Teddy Pendergrass - The Best Of Teddy Pendergrass '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. I Dont Love You Anymore
02. Close the Door
03. The Whole Towns Laughing at Me
04. The More I Get, the More I Want
05. Wake up Everybody
06. Come Go with Me
07. When Somebody Loves You Back
08. Love T.K.O.
09. Life Is A Song Worth Singing
10. Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose
11. Turn off the Lights
12. Only You
13. Youre My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration
14. Do Me
15. You Cant Hide from Yourself
16. It Dont Hurt Now
17. Cant We Try
18. Cold, Cold World


 Read MoreUnfortunately, the more success the group had, the more friction
developed between Melvin and Pendergrass. Despite the revised billing of the
group, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring Theodore Pendergrass,
Pendergrass felt that he wasnt getting enough recognition. Around 1976,
Pendergrass left Melvins Blue Notes and formed his own Blue Notes, featuring
Teddy Pendergrass. Briefly, there was some confusion as to which Blue Notes were
which. The resolution came when Pendergrass disbanded his Blue Notes in favor of
a solo career and Melvins group signed a recording contract with Source Records,
distributed through ABC Records, scoring a hit with I Want to Be Your Lover.

Teddy PendergrassPendergrass signed a new contract with Philadelphia
International Records in late 1976/early 1977. He burst back on the scene with
Teddy Pendergrass, a platinum solo debut that included the top-notch singles I
Dont Love You Anymore, You Cant Hide from Yourself, and The More I Get the More
I Want. Around this time, Pendergrass began to institute his infamous Ladies
Only concerts. His next three albums went gold or platinum: Life Is a Song Worth
Singing (1978), Teddy (1979), and Teddy Live (Coast to Coast). The hit single
Close the Door was used in the film Soup for One, where Pendergrass had a small
role.

TPThe singer received several Grammy nominations during 1977 and 1978,
Billboards 1977 Pop Album New Artist Award, an American Music Award for best R&B
performer of 1978, and awards from Ebony magazine and the NAACP. He was also in
consideration for the lead in the movie biopic The Otis Redding Story. The 70s
ended, but Pendergrass kept racking up the hits. TP, his fifth solo album, went
platinum in the summer of 1980 off the singles Turn Off the Lights, Come Go with
Me, Shout and Scream, Its You I Love, and Cant We Try. Its Time for Love gave
Pendergrass another gold album in summer 1981, which included the hit singles
Love TKO and I Cant Live Without Your Love.

Love LanguageA 1982 car accident left Pendergrass paralyzed from the waist down
and wheelchair-bound. After almost a year of physical therapy and counseling,
Pendergrass returned to the recording scene, signing a contract with
Elektra/Asylum in 1983. His ninth solo album and Elektra/Asylum debut, Love
Language went gold the spring of 1984. Philadelphia International issued two
albums of unreleased tracks, This Ones for You (1982) and Heaven Only Knows
(1983). Other albums included Workin It Back (1985), Joy (1988, whose title
track went to number one R&B for two weeks), and Little More Magic (1993). The
latter half of the 90s found Pendergrass recording for the Surefire/Wind Up
label. Truly Blessed, the name of an 1991 Elektra album, is also the title of
the autobiography Pendergrass co-authored with Patricia Romanowski. Apart from
an appearance at a 2007 ceremony held in his honor, Pendergrass spent his later
years away from the spotlight. He had difficulty recovering from colon cancer
surgery and passed away on January 13, 2010. ~ Ed Hogan

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