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Thom Bell

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Thomas Randolph Bell (born January 26, 1943) is a Jamaican-born American songwriter, arranger, and record producer known as one of the creators of Philadelphia soul in the 1970s. [1]

66 relations: Adolescence, Album, Are You Ready for Love, Atlantic Records, Avco Records, Backing vocalist, Betcha by Golly, Wow, Billy Paul, Box set, Break Up to Make Up, Cameo Records, Classical music, Could It Be I'm Falling in Love, Daryl Hall, Dee Dee Bridgewater (1980 album), Deniece Williams, Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time), Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gamble and Huff, Games People Play (The Spinners song), Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, Hall & Oates, Hit single, House band, I Don't Have the Heart, I'll Be Around (The Spinners song), I'm Doin' Fine Now, I'm Stone in Love with You, It's Gonna Take a Miracle, James Ingram, Johnny Mathis, Kingston, Jamaica, La-La (Means I Love You), Linda Creed, List of Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees, Mama Can't Buy You Love, MFSB, Mighty Love (song), Motown, One of a Kind (Love Affair), Philadelphia, Philadelphia International Records, Philadelphia soul, Pop music, Record chart, Rhythm and blues, Russell Thompkins Jr., Silly (song), ..., Singing, Single (music), Songwriter, Songwriters Hall of Fame, Soul music, Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart), The Delfonics, The Royalettes, The Rubberband Man, The Spinners (American R&B group), The Stylistics, The Thom Bell Sessions, Then Came You (Dionne Warwick & The Spinners song), You Are Everything, You Make Me Feel Brand New, 17th Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (16 more) »

Adolescence

AdolescenceMacmillan Dictionary for Students Macmillan, Pan Ltd.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Are You Ready for Love

"Are You Ready for Love" is a song recorded by Elton John in 1977, and was first released in the UK in 1979 on the EP The Thom Bell Sessions.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Avco Records

Avco Records was a record label started by music producers/composers Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore together with film and TV producer Joseph E. Levine in 1968 as Avco Embassy Records.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Betcha by Golly, Wow

"Betcha by Golly, Wow" is a song written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed that was originally recorded by Connie Stevens as "Keep Growing Strong" on the Bell Records label in 1970.

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Billy Paul

Paul Williams (December 1, 1934 – April 24, 2016), known professionally as Billy Paul, was a Grammy Award-winning American soul singer, known for his 1972 #1 single, "Me and Mrs. Jones", as well as the 1973 album and single "War of the Gods" which blends his more conventional pop, soul, and funk styles with electronic and psychedelic influences.

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Box set

A box set or boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) packaged in a box, for sale as a single unit.

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Break Up to Make Up

"Break Up to Make Up" was a 1973 hit by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics.

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Cameo Records

Cameo Records was an American record label that flourished in the 1920s.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Could It Be I'm Falling in Love

"Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" is a 1972 song recorded by the American R&B vocal group The Spinners (known as "Detroit Spinners" in the UK).

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Daryl Hall

Daryl Franklin Hohl (born October 11, 1946), better known by his stage name Daryl Hall, is an American rock, R&B, and soul singer; keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with guitarist and songwriter John Oates).

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Dee Dee Bridgewater (1980 album)

Dee Dee Bridgewater is a studio album by American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater.

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Deniece Williams

Deniece Williams (born June Deniece Chandler; June 3, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and producer.

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Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)

"Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" is a song co-written by record producer Thom Bell and William Hart, lead singer of the American R&B/Soul vocal group The Delfonics.

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Dionne Warwick

Marie Dionne Warwick (born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress and television show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Gamble and Huff

Kenneth Gamble (born August 11, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Leon A. Huff (born April 8, 1942, Camden, New Jersey) are an American songwriting and production team credited for developing the Philadelphia soul music genre (also known as Philly sound) of the 1970s.

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Games People Play (The Spinners song)

"Games People Play", also known as "They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)", is a song recorded by American R&B vocal group The Spinners.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical is an honor presented to remixers for quality remixed recordings at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Hall & Oates

Daryl Hall and John Oates, often referred to as Hall & Oates, are an American musical duo.

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Hit single

A hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular.

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House band

A house band is a group of musicians, often centrally organized by a band leader, who regularly play at an establishment.

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I Don't Have the Heart

"I Don't Have the Heart" is the title of a No.

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I'll Be Around (The Spinners song)

"I'll Be Around" is a song recorded by the American R&B vocal group The Spinners (known as "Detroit Spinners" in the UK).

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I'm Doin' Fine Now

"I'm Doin' Fine Now" is a 1973 song by the band New York City.

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I'm Stone in Love with You

"I'm Stone in Love with You" is a 1972 single by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics.

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It's Gonna Take a Miracle

"It's Gonna Take a Miracle" is a popular song written by Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein, and Lou Stallman.

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James Ingram

James Edward Ingram (born February 16, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist.

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Johnny Mathis

John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music.

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Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

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La-La (Means I Love You)

"La-La (Means I Love You)" is a R&B/soul song by American vocal group The Delfonics.

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Linda Creed

Linda Diane Creed (December 6, 1948 – April 10, 1986), also known by her married name Linda Epstein, was an American singer-songwriter and lyricist who teamed up with songwriter-producer Thom Bell to produce some of the most successful Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s.

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List of Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees

The Songwriters Hall of Fame was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond to honor those whose work represents a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world's popular music songbook.

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Mama Can't Buy You Love

"Mama Can't Buy You Love" is a hit single for British singer/songwriter Elton John from the EP The Thom Bell Sessions.

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MFSB

MFSB, officially standing for "Mother Father Sister Brother", was a pool of more than thirty studio musicians based at Philadelphia’s famed Sigma Sound Studios.

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Mighty Love (song)

"Mighty Love" is a 1973 song recorded by the American R&B vocal group The Spinners (known as "Detroit Spinners" in the UK).

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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One of a Kind (Love Affair)

"One of a Kind (Love Affair)" is a song recorded by the American R&B vocal group The Spinners (known as "Detroit Spinners" in the UK).

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia International Records

Philadelphia International Records (PIR) is an American record label based in Philadelphia.

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Philadelphia soul

Philadelphia soul, sometimes called Philly soul, the Philadelphia sound, or TSOP, is a genre of late 1960s–1970s soul music characterized by funk influences and lush instrumental arrangements, often featuring sweeping strings and piercing horns.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Russell Thompkins Jr.

Russell Allen Thompkins Jr. (born March 21, 1951) is an American soul singer.

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Silly (song)

"Silly" is a song written by Fritz Baskett, Clarence McDonald and Deniece Williams and performed by Williams.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF), was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publisher/songwriter Abe Olman and publisher/executive Howie Richmond to honor those whose work represents and maintains the heritage and legacy of a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world's popular music songbook.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)

"Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" is a soul song written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed that was originally recorded by the Philadelphia soul group the Stylistics.

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The Delfonics

The Delfonics are an American R&B/soul vocal group from Philadelphia.

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The Royalettes

The Royalettes (also credited as Sheila Ross and her Royalettes) were a four-girl group from Baltimore, Maryland who exemplified the "sweet soul" style of the mid-60s.

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The Rubberband Man

"The Rubberband Man" is a song recorded by the American vocal group The Spinners.

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The Spinners (American R&B group)

The Spinners are an American rhythm and blues vocal group that formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954.

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The Stylistics

The Stylistics are a Philadelphia soul group that achieved its greatest chart success in the 1970s.

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The Thom Bell Sessions

The Thom Bell Sessions (internationally titled as The Thom Bell Sessions '77) is an EP recorded by Elton John in the second half of 1977, but was not released by MCA Records until June 1979.

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Then Came You (Dionne Warwick & The Spinners song)

"Then Came You" is a 1974 Grammy-nominated hit for American soul singer Dionne Warwick and American R&B group The Spinners, and credited to Dionne Warwicke and Spinners (from 1971–1975, Warwick added a final 'e' to her last name).

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You Are Everything

"You Are Everything" is a soul song written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed that was originally recorded by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics.

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You Make Me Feel Brand New

"You Make Me Feel Brand New" is a 1974 single by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics.

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17th Annual Grammy Awards

The 17th Annual Grammy Awards were presented March 1, 1975, and were broadcast live on American television.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Bell

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