Jboogiee said:

Mine too! I grew up hearing constant screams of: Ooooh, Teddy!!!

RIP Teddy.

SCNDLS said:

Seems like many of us have our mothers to thank
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I adore this short clip! One of my fav songs of his.


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VenusBlingBling said:

I can't listen to any Teddy song without remembering my Mom cleaning on Saturday morning and hollerin'. Ooooh, Teddy!!! Lawd hammercy! That's Teddy P!!!

My first memory of Teddy Pendergrass is this one....



It was on a homemade 8 Track tape that my mother's boyfriend on the side (while she was cheating on my asshole father) made for her.

He also put these other songs on it too....

Being With You - Smokey Robinson
Happy Anniversary - Ray Goodman and Brown
Guess You Didn't Know - One Way
Love TKO - Teddy Pendergrass
Yearning For Your Love - The Gap Band
Passion - Rod Stewart
The Look In Your Eyes - Maze
Share It - Smokey Robinson
Never Make Your Move Too Soon - BB King

It's funny the memories that will pop up when you hear a particular song. I remember damn near the entire tracklisting of that tape.
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I would so miss his voice.

Last night on KGO, the talk host between 10pm-1am played snippet tributes of Teddy after the commercial segments and announced his passing as well talked a bit about his career. It was really cool and listeners responded in kind for that tribute.

Nevr know what you got till it's gone... Thank God and Teddy 4 your gift and your life.....


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Very sad news... rest in peace Teddy

RIP

memories of childhood.

i have one of my favorites that he did w/harold melvin and the blue notes, 'the love i lost', on my ipod. the other night, i just had to play 'pretty flower'. tonight i'll listen to 'wake up everybody' in honor of teddy.

This is a sad day for soul music but Teddy you left one hell of a musical legacy

RIP Teddy

Turn off the Lights sexiest song ever.

My all time favorite, when he was with Harold Melvin, Wake up Everybody.

God Bless him!

I thought this was a twitter rumor and was hoping it was, but then it was finally confirmed. 59 is quite young in my mind! I thought he was older than that for some reason. Anyway, RIP, Teddy!!

I'm loving this live performance of 'Easy, Easy, Got To Take It Easy' and 'Close The Door'. This was when Teddy was untouchable...

R.I.P.

VenusBlingBling said:

That's the year I saw him live...he was sooo damn FINE! I tell ya...

Thanx for the great memories TP, RIP.

SoulAlive said:

My uncle introduced me to Teddy's solo debut and this followup
album here. This song and The Whole Town's Laughing at Me are
two of his more memorable songs for me.

Timmy84 said:

A voice always filled with Love & Soul, will be missed but, never forgotten.

R.I.P Teddy

NpgSouljah said:

This has to be one of the most relevant and timeless recordings ever produced because of its message. In fact, it is very appropriate to what is happening in Haiti with the earthquake and its aftermath. Teddy's voice just graced every song and I am happy that he was able to leave one impactful legacy. He will never be forgotten...
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Gotta sneak one of my hidden gems up n here

you will be missed.. I know my mother is probably sad about it also

Turn out the lights, and strike a candle....

mimi07 said:

damn these celebs are just dropping! Poor Teddy. His voice was magic. One of many reasons to love R&B.

Soul Summer's Teddy Pendergrass Obit

When I was a child, my mom had never been into music that was too funky. While other parents were bopping their heads to James Brown and showing their kids how to dance as Kool & the Gang blared from the speakers, my bougie mother was content listening to Frank Sinatra singles on WNEW-AM, going to Lena Horne concerts on Broadway and being as square as the last big Johnny Mathis hit sometime in 1950s.

But, all of that cornball make-believe ballroom stuff came to a screeching halt in the summer of 1973 (my 10th birthday) when some kind of way Moms got turned-on to the power of Philadelphia International Records and turned-out by the roar of Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes’ lead singer Teddy Pendergrass.

I’m not sure who schooled Momduke to the then-new soul supremacy taking over the airwaves, though I suspect it was her best friend Bubba—or possibly the girls at the hairdresser. All I know is whenever “The Love I Lost” came on the radio, the swoon of old favorites (Billy Eckstine, Arthur Prysock) became a distant memory.

Although Teddy had started making a little noise the year before with “I Miss You” and “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” from Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes’ self-titled debut disc, it was the pulsing heartbreak o “The Love I Lost,” with its “bittersweet, downward-bending melody over an exhilarating, string-laden romp” (as Don & Jeff Breithautt’s book Precious and Few so vividly described it), that became an anthem in our house.

While the song would come to be known as one of the first American disco records, it also was a precursor of the sophisticated Philly International soul sound that would take over 1970s radio. Teddy Pendergrass not only snatched my momma into the present, he also helped change the sound of R&B and became one of the biggest stars of the decade in the process.

for the rest of this post, go to: http://www.soulsummer.com...endergrass

Another one of my favorites from Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Featuring the late great Teddy P...one of the finest Philly soul cuts



Boy what a LOSS!

RIP

Let's not forget that Teddy could also be funky as well:



THIS^ is my all-time favor track from Teddy. I used to dance to this when I was a little kid.

Timmy84 said:

I LOVE THIS SONG!! It says so much!