Latest Release
- 25 OCT 2024
- 1 Song
- TP (Expanded Edition) · 1980
- Wake Up Everybody (feat. Teddy Pendergrass) · 1975
- Wake Up Everybody (feat. Teddy Pendergrass) · 1975
- Teddy (Expanded Edition) · 1979
- Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (feat. Teddy Pendergrass) · 1968
- Life Is A Song Worth Singing (Expanded Edition) · 1978
- Black & Blue (Expanded Edition) [feat. Teddy Pendergrass] · 1973
- Life Is A Song Worth Singing (Expanded Edition) · 1978
- Teddy (Expanded Edition) · 1979
- Whitney Houston · 1984
Artist Playlists
- The raw power of gospel and the smooth sexiness of R&B - this man had it all.
- Grooving R&B beyond the come-ons.
Singles & EPs
Live Albums
Compilations
Appears On
- Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
- Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
- Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
- Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
- Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
More To Hear
- The song’s about unity—but the backstory is more complicated.
About Teddy Pendergrass
With his husky baritone and passionate lyrics, legendary R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass found fame fronting Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes in the early ’70s before establishing a solo career that yielded five straight platinum albums. • The Philadelphia native began singing gospel and playing drums in church. At age 10, he became an ordained minister. • As a teen, Pendergrass played drums for the vocal group The Cadillacs. His rhythmic skills earned him a spot in The Blue Notes, led by Harold Melvin. In 1970, Pendergrass stepped out from behind the drumkit and became the lead singer. • In 1972, the rechristened Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes signed with Philadelphia International Records and scored their first Top 10 R&B hit with “I Miss You”, a harbinger of things to come. • The group is best known for 1972’s “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”, which topped the US R&B chart and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. • With Pendergrass at the helm, The Blue Notes also topped the R&B charts with “The Love I Lost” (1973) and “Wake Up Everybody” (1975). • In 1975, Pendergrass left the group due to a financial dispute. Two years later, he released his self-titled solo debut, a Top 10 R&B hit that achieved platinum sales. • He received his first Grammy nomination (for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male) for his seductive 1978 single “Close The Door”. • Pendergrass made history for being the first Black singer to have five consecutive platinum albums. His streak ran from 1977’s Teddy Pendergrass to 1981’s It’s Time for Love. • A 1982 car accident in Philadelphia left Pendergrass paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. The singer completed physical therapy and returned in 1984 with Love Language, featuring “Hold Me”, a duet with Whitney Houston. • In 1998, Pendergrass released his fourteenth and final album, This Christmas (I'd Rather Have Love). • He died in January 2010 at age 59.
- HOMETOWN
- Kingstree, SC, United States
- BORN
- 26 mars 1950
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul