The Don S. McClure Show Live Gamble & Huff- Honor Creative Genius

Don S. McClure Show Live - Gamble & Huff - Honor Creative Genius
Kenneth Gamble (b) October 14, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Leon A. Huff (b) April 8, 1942, Camden, New Jersey) an American songwriting and record production team have written and produced 15 gold singles, 22 gold albums.  On March 10, 2008, they were inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1964, before  "Gamble & Huff" there was "Gamble & Ross." Gamble was discovered and managed by Jerry Ross, Gamble was only 17 years old and they collaborated for many years. Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia soul sound evolved from the simpler arrangements of the late-1960s into a style featuring lush strings, thumping basslines, sliding hi-hat rhythms—soon became the distinguishing characteristics of disco. In 1967 they produced their first Top 5 hit:  In the spring of 1968, for their own Gamble Records label, they wrote and produced the top 10 hit "Cowboys to Girls" for the Philadelphia group the Intruders. They worked with Archie Bell & the Drells, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, and The Sweet Inspirations, and Mercury artists, Jerry Butler and Dee Dee Warwick.  In 1971 as rival to Motown. CBS Records, headed by Clive Davis, backed the venture and distributed Philadelphia International's records. By 1975, Philly International and the Philadelphia soul largely eclipsed the Motown Sound in popularity, Gamble and Huff, the premiere producers. Philadelphia International featured the label's in-house band, studio musicians, MFSB (Mother Father Sister Brother). cut a number of successful instrumental albums and singles written and produced by the Gamble & Huff team and arranged by Bobby Martin including the 1974 #1 hit, "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)"

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