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Love Train:The Sound of Philadelphia | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various
Label: Sony Legacy
Category: Music
List Price: $49.98
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 288
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 5.8 x 1
MPN: 735279
UPC: 886973527924
EAN: 0886973527924
ASIN: B001F290GM
Release Date: October 21, 2008
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Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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Disc 1
| • | Expressway (To Your Heart) - Soul Survivors | | • | La-La---Means I Love You - The Delfonics | | • | Cowboys To Girls - The Intruders | | • | Hey, Western Union Man - Jerry Butler | | • | Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love) - The Delfonics | | • | Only The Strong Survive - Jerry Butler | | • | Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) - The Delfonics | | • | Brand New Me - Dusty Springfield | | • | Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You - Wilson Pickett | | • | You're The Reason Why - The Ebonys | | • | Drowning In The Sea of Love - Joe Simon | | • | I'm Stone In Love With You - The Stylistics | | • | I Miss You - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | | • | Back Stabbers The O'Jays | | • | Sunshine The O'Jays | | • | I'll Be Around The Spinners | | • | Slow Motion (Pt. 1) Johnny Williams | | • | Me And Mrs. Jones Billy Paul | | • | If You Don't Know Me By Now Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | | • | LOVE IS HERE THE FUTURES |
Disc 2
| • | Love Train The O'Jays | | • | Break Up To Make Up The Stylistics | | • | Family Affair MFSB | | • | It's Forever The Ebonys | | • | Time To Get Down The O'Jays | | • | There's No Me Without You The Manhattans | | • | I'll Always Love My Mama The Intruders | | • | The Love I Lost Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | | • | I Wanna Know Your Name The Intruders | | • | Dirty Ol' Man The Three Degrees | | • | Put Your Hands Together The O'Jays | | • | Thanks For Saving My Life Billy Paul | | • | Mighty Love The Spinners | | • | Be Thankful For What You Got (PT. 1) William DeVaughn | | • | For The Love of Money The O'Jays | | • | Where Do We Go From Here THE Trammps | | • | T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia) MSFB (Featuring The Three Degrees) |
Disc 3
| • | Then Came You The Spinners with dionne watwick | | • | Love Is The Message MFSB (Featuring The Three Degrees) | | • | When Will I See You Again The Three Degrees | | • | Where Are All My Friends Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | | • | Picture Us Bunny Sigler | | • | Bad Luck Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | | • | Give The People What They Want The O'Jays | | • | Billy's Back Home Billy Paul | | • | Hope That We Can Be Together Soon Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (Featuring sharon Paige) | | • | Do It Any Way You Wanna People's Choice | | • | THE BIG HURT PEOPLE'S CHOICE | | • | Let Me Make Love To You The O'Jays | | • | Wake Up Everybody Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | | • | I Love Music The O'Jays | | • | Don't Leave Me This Way Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | | • | Let's Groove Archie Bell & The Drells | | • | Livin' For The Weekend The O'Jays |
Disc 4
| • | Kiss And Say Goodbye The Manhattans | | • | I'm Not In Love Dee Dee Sharp | | • | You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine Lou Rawls | | • | THE Rubberband Man The Spinners | | • | Enjoy Yourself The Jacksons | | • | Free Love Jean Carn | | • | I Don't Love You Anymore Teddy Pendergrass | | • | See You When I Git There Lou Rawls | | • | Use Ta Be My Girl The O'Jays | | • | Close The Door Teddy Pendergrass | | • | Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now McFadden & Whitehead | | • | You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else The Jones Girls | | • | Hurry Up This Way Again The Stylistics | | • | Love T.K.O. Teddy Pendergrass | | • | I Ain't Jivin', I'm Jammin' Leon Huff | | • | It's Gonna Take A Miracle Deniece Williams | | • | If Only You Knew Patti Labelle |
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Album Description
Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia includes 71 songs on 4 CDs. These are the American standards that defined an era, featuring such legendary artists as The Jacksons, The O'Jays, Teddy Pendergrass, Patti LaBelle, The Spinners, The Stylistics, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Billy Paul, Wilson Pickett and McFadden & Whitehead. This deluxe package contains some of the most recognized and enduring hits of our time PLUS a lavish booklet with unpublished photos, historical essays and intimate conversations with the architects of the Philly Sound, Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Thom Bell and more.
Album Description
Some of the best soul, pop, disco, ballads ever recorded can be found on this whopping 4CD set featuring 71 tracks. Includes world famous songs by The O'Jays, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, McFadden & Whitehead, Three Degrees, Billy Paul, Jean Carne. Also includes a lavish booklet with photo's and detailed liner notes and interviews.
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 Love Train 2008 January 8, 2009
OMG! After seeing the PBS Show during the Thanksgiving Weekend and immediately ordering that same night I was all excited. Came within 5 days and haven't stop listening to it yet. At least two hours a day now ipod @ home and car.
Brings back all the memories (good & bad) and it's really can only be appreciated by those who lived, breathed it to the max. Of course, it was to cool you down while funk got you up in the height of the nite.
Great Music, Great Price January 7, 2009
I'm surprised they didn't price this higher. Nothing I can add that hasn't been said except for, When are they going to do a box set or release The Intruders material that has never been on cd. I'm talking about their first three albums The Intruders Are Together and Cowboys To Girls and When We Get Married. Those plus Energy of Love and Save The Children (both released on a Collectable cd along with greatest hits) plus the singles that were not from an lp would make a nice box set. It's a shame those albums are lingering somewhere. What, I repeat WHAT are they waiting for?
love train; the sound of philadelphia January 6, 2009
Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia - Live in ConcertIf your a "Baby Boomer" your gonna love this Gamble and Huff collection of Philadelphia hits. I watched the first installment of the PBS special (dvd release this spring), and was "hooked". Every song on the multi disk set is an "instant trip down memory lane". I highly recommend this collection, and putting in a "pre-order" for the double dvd set.
Buy It!!! January 6, 2009
Has so many great songs from my youth...the price is right for so much music.... you would be a fool not to buy it!!!
TSOP it is! January 1, 2009
Philadelphia has always been the City of Brotherly Love and it took two musical geniuses like Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff to compose the songs and arrangements that would reach out to all listening audiences letting them know that that phrase was more than just a phrase. In that classic O'Jays' hit of which this boxed set is named, all the nations of the world from England to Russia, China and Africa are connected as the "Love Train" comes "ridin' on through." The phrase "People all over the world" from the same song is later duplicated in MFSB's chart-topper "TSOP: The Sound of Phildelphia." MFSB, standing for Mother Father Sister Brother further emphasizing the Philadelphia spirit of unity, is the studio band that Gamble & Huff assembled to play behind the artists they wrote for and produced and was the sound they had bumpin'! All around they were one tight outfit. Going further with the subject of the need for positive social awareness, it could be heard in songs like the O'Jays' greasy and funky "For The Love of Money", Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' "Wake Up Everybody", "Put Your Hands Together" from the O'Jays again, as well as McFadden & Whitehead's latter-era classic "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now." Yes, indeed: the Love Train was making its impact on American popular music and it was rollin' straight out of no other righteous American city than Philadelphia.
This brand new edition of Gamble and Huff's Philly Soul contributions to R&B music from 1967-1983 is a definitive portrait of their labors of love that started from their first chance meeting inside an elevator. From there to the recording studio and to the music charts, they cranked out one hit after another for various artists signed to their Philadelphia International label. The first half of disc one are the seeds that got the ball rolling with hits from Jerry Butler, the Delfonics, the Stylistics, Joe Simon, Wilson Pickett as well as Dusty Springfield. The second half of disc one and onward is where the Philly sound grew, developed and progressed encompassing the many phases that defined what '70s R&B was all about through funk, smooth soul, quiet storm and ultimately disco. None of these songs are really pure disco although, Philly In'tl played the huge part in contributing to how disco evolved.
All the hits are here and some have extended versions such as "I'll Always Love My Mama" and "I Wanna Know Your Name" from the Intruders, "Livin' For The Weekend" and "I Love Music" from the O'Jays, plus "I Miss You" and "The Love I Lost" from Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes. Those longer cuts are what made Philly In'tl what it was and, as stated before, because of their dancability and or seductiveness if it was a ballad, this lead to disco, the 12" single and to the only majorcomplaint about this set. Because of the lengths of many songs, it leaves little room for other artists to have significant spotlight time. For instance, artists like Lou Rawls, The Jacksons, Dee Dee Sharp, Bunny Sigler and Joe Simon could have had more hits provided as they had their fair share on the label as well. The O'Jays and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes seem to dominate this set, and in a way they were synonomous with Philly In'tl, but the balance could have been a bit better. Then again, the purpose of box sets is to provide as thorough of an overview as possible without turning anything into combine mini-greatest hit collections. If you want to investigate further on an artist, you're welcome to, as their music is readily and separately available. If more songs were provided along with the 71 on here, this could have easily spawned a fifth disc. Two other minor quibbles is that this did not include the collaboration of artists as the Philadelphia International All-Stars' "Let's Clean Up The Ghetto" and the Ebony's "It's Forever" does not have the extended ending, but yet just about everything else does. Hear that one elsewhere in its 7 minute glory.
Other non-Philly label artists include The Spinners (I'll Be Around, The Rubberband Man) and the Manhattans (There's No Me Without You, Kiss and Say Goodbye). Finally, Teddy Pendergrass, Deneice Williams, the Jones Girls, and Patti Labelle round out the set that carries the glossy and glittery quiet storm and dance sounds into the '80s as Philly In'tl leaves behind its glory days.
The songs were as recognizable as their very own sound, and just as Motown and Stax had their own distinct sounds during their heydays, as did Philly In'tl. In fact if any two labels had their heydays during decades it would be Motown and Stax in the '60s and Philly In'tl and Hi for the '70s. With positive messages as well as the down-to-earth heartfelt emotions on life and love in the lyrics, Philadelphia International and their creators Gamble and Huff were the symbols and personifications of Brotherly Love and promotion for unity. Get ready to start and evening full of get-down dancin' and romancin' as you take a ride on the Love Train!
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