Just like Booker T. & The MG's at Stax, Hi brothers in Hodges, the Meters in New Orleans or Motown Funk Brothers, the orchestra of Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia has largely worked to the glory of the local soul. A force to accompany the main artists produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff from the sixties, the rhythm section of Sigma Sound recording various 45-t under fluctuating identities: The Music Makers for an instrumental version of (We'll Be) United Intruders at the beginning of 1968, Cliff Nobles & Co. The Horse For a few months later. The Electric Indian to Keem-O-Sabe in 1969.
With the creation of Philadelphia International Recording early next decade, the rhythm section is expanding slowly around drummer Earl Young, bassists Larry Moore and Ronnie Baker, the organist Lenny Pakula, guitarists Norman Harris James Herb Smith, Roland Chambers and Bobby Eli, percussionists Vincent "Vince" Montana, Miguel Fuentes, Quinton Joseph, and Larry Washington, with input from sections of brass, strings and wood very supplied, all under the Gamble & Huff direction or arrangers Dexter Wansel, Thom Bell, Bobby Martin, Don Renaldo and Vince Montana.
The idea of highlighting their instrumental skills born in 1973 with the album MFSB that freezes the identity of the orchestra around four letters reflect the family atmosphere and cohesion characteristics of Sigma Sound: M Mothers, Fathers F, S for Sisters, B Brothers. The disc will set fire to the powder by becoming one of the best-selling albums of 1974 entitled "Love Is The Message, and the range responsible for this success has been christened in honor of the TSOP which the orchestra is associated The Sound of Philadelphia.
The genesis of this composition Gamble and Huff was a few months when Don Cornelius, producer of the television show Soul Train, informed the officer that PIR is looking for a new indication, the heirs of King Curtis who refused to sell rights Hot Patato he used previously. MFSB musicians start to work immediately, after a series of trial and error, they developed an instrumental track at the end of which the Three Degrees are placing their votes. Associated with the show Soul Train for ten years, was released in 45-TSOP t under pressure from viewers to simultaneously take the head of the Hot 100 charts and Soul April 20 1974 before becoming a gold record.
This bestseller is out of the shadows MFSB that begins to find the Three Degrees Love Is the Message, the albums before moving to the end of the decade on Philadelphia International. After Universal Love of which the first track, Sexy, do not miss that one places the head of no way blacks in 1975, the series continues over the following months with the Philadelphia Freedom collections and Summertime, and ended in 1981 with Mysteries of the World, published on a new label of Gamble and Huff in the appropriate name, TSOP. Due to large da pusqu'il includes average twenty-five to thirty piece orchestra limit its benefits on stage in a few exceptional occasions, which did not prevent him from continuing to provide the main stars of hits tamdem Gamble & Huff (Teddy Pandergrass, the O'Jays, Jean Carn ...) but also to artists outside the company chose to record at Sigma Sound, such as Stylistics, the Spinners or Melba Moore
members of groups:
Earl Young - Drums
Larry Moore and Ronnie Baker - Low
Lenny Pakula - Organ
Norman Harris, James Herb Smith, Roland Chambers and Bobby Eli - Guitar
Vincent "Vince" Montana, Miguel Fuentes, Quinton Joseph, and Larry Washington - Percussion
's discography:
* MFSB (1973)
* Love Is The Message (1973) *
Philadelphia Freedom (1975)
* Universal Love (1975)
* Summertime (1976) *
MFSB Gamble Huff Orchestra (1978)
* The End of Phase One (1978)
* Mysteries of the World (1980)
Biography taken from the book Encyclopedia of Rhythm & Blues and Soul by Sebastian Danchin, Fayard (2002)
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