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This is
Billy Paul's Got My Head On Straight. I bought it based on two names on the back of the record jacket: "
K. Gamble and L. Huff." But I learned later (but I should have known) that Billy Paul had the classic hit Me and Mrs. Jones. "
Me and Mrs. Jones" - it was a number one single, recorded and released in 1972 on CBS's Epic label. The single was on his album called
360 Degrees of Billy Paul, and was written by
Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. It was Paul's only number-one single. As I wrote earlier this week - give me anything by Gamble & Huff. You can add them to Rodgers-Edwards,
Goffin and King, Bacharach-David,
Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and
Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Bernstein & Sondheim. OK, that's a bit too extreme, but you get the idea. They are
Kenneth Gamble and and
Leon A. Huff - a famous (to me) killer songwriting and record production team who wrote and produced
over 170 gold and platinum records. They are considered founding pioneers of the Philadelphia sound (which I prefer to Motown) and are/were the in-house creative team for the the Philadelphia International record label. In 2008 they were inducted into the RNR HOF.
She's with me -- we've got a thing going on...
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