The Essential Teddy Pendergrass

Teddy Pendergrass
2 discs

0. DISC 1:
1. I Don't Love You Anymore
2. When Somebody Loves You Back
3. Come Go With Me
4. Whole Town's Laughing at Me, The
5. Somebody Told Me
6. Love T.K.O.
7. You're My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration
8. And If I Had
9. Don't Leave Me This Way
10. I Miss You
11. Love I Lost, The
12. Nine Times Out of Ten
13. Life Is a Song Worth Singing
14. If You Don't Know Me by Now
0. DISC 2:
1. Feel the Fire
2. Close the Door
3. It's Time For Love
4. Turn Off the Lights
5. Wake up Everybody
6. Bad Luck
7. Only You
8. Get up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose
9. It Should've Been You
10. Hold Me
11. Joy
12. This Gift of Life
13. I'll Never See Heaven Again
14. I Want My Baby Back
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 88697174762

Credits

Producer	Dexter Wansel; Sherman Marshall; Kenneth Gamble; Cynthia Biggs; Teddy Pendergrass; Reggie Calloway; Terry Price; Thom Bell; Michael Masser; Victor Carstarphen; Cecil Womack; Leon Huff; Leo Sacks; John Whitehead; Gene McFadden; Vincent Calloway; Leo Sacks (Compilation)
Engineer	Dexter Wansel; Paul Martin; Peter Humphreys; Michael Hutchinson; Dirk Devlin; Carla Bandini; Jim Gallagher; Jeffrey Stewart; Joe Tarsia; Jay Mark; Darrell Rogers; Bruce Springsteen; Carl Paroulo; Quinton Joseph; Arthur Stoppe; Scott McMinn; Rocky Schaars; Frank Luria; Jim Doughtery; Jerry Block; Bruce Bluesteen; Bill Dorman; Vincent Warsavage

Personnel: Teddy Pendergrass (congas, bongos, hand claps, percussion); Dennis Harris , Norman Harris, Roland Chambers, Anthony Bell, Bobby Eli, Cecil Womack (guitars); Sam Reed (saxophone); Leon Huff (piano, keyboards); Lenny Pakula (organ); Thom Bell (keyboards, background vocals); Dexter Wansel, Jerry Cohen, Ron Kersey, Victor Carstarphen, Barry J. Eastmond (keyboards); Vince Montana (vibraphone); Bob Babbitt, Michael "Sugar Bear" Foreman, Ronnie Baker, James Williams (bass guitar); Karl Chambers, Keith Benson, Daryl Burgee, Earl Young, Quinton Joseph, Charles Collins (drums); David Cruse, Larry Washington (congas, bongos, hand claps, percussion); Evette Benton, Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson, Carl Helm, Joseph Jefferson, Kenneth Gamble (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.
THE ESSENTIAL TEDDY PENDERGRASS is a meticulously selected and assembled collection of the R&B singer's best material. Across two discs ESSENTIAL covers all Pendergrass's biggest hits (he regularly topped the R&B charts in the late 1970s and '80s) from both his early Philadelphia International tenure and his later stint at Elektra.
Pendergrass cut some excellent uptempo dance tracks, funky workouts that made good use of his forceful pipes, and several of those are included here. But the man is best known for his romantic material, and rightfully so. His intimate, sensual croon will forever make tunes like "Turn Off the Lights" and "Close the Door" seduction staples. Those and many more are included here, making ESSENTIAL a definitive statement on Pendergrass's place in the R&B canon.