Philadelphia International Records Singles - Don't Leave Me This Way, If You Don't Know Me by Now, for the Love of Money, If Only You Knew (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Don't Leave Me This Way, if You Don't Know Me by Now, for the Love of Money, if Only You Knew, I Love Music, Back Stabbers, Tsop, When Will I See You Again, Love Train, Love, Need and Want You, Love T.k.o., Don't Wanna Change the World. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Don't Leave Me This Way" is an R&B/soul/disco song written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Cary Gilbert. First charting as a hit for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, an act on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label in 1975, "Don't Leave Me This Way" was later a hit single for both Thelma Houston and The Communards. The Blue Notes' original version of the song, featuring Teddy Pendergrass' lead vocal, was included as an album track on the group's successful Wake Up Everybody LP. Though not issued as a single in the United States, the Blue Notes' recording reached #3 on the US Billboard Disco charts and later reached #5 on the UK singles chart. "Don't Leave Me This Way" was covered by Motown artist Thelma Houston in 1976. Her version, with its more overt disco arrangement, was a massive international hit, topping the soul singles chart. and US Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in April 1977. The song peaked at #13 in the UK. The song went to number one on the disco chart, and is considered by many to be not just one of the greatest songs of the disco era but the entire 70's as well. Houston's version was revived in 1995 in a remix, which reached #19 on the US Billboard Dance Chart and #35 in the UK. This version got Houston ranked #86 on VH1's "100 Greatest One-hit Wonders," as well as the #2 spot on their "100 Greatest Dance Songs" list. Nine years later, the song was revived by The Communards in an avowedly Hi-NRG ver...http: //booksllc.net/?id=7035320