TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Teddy Pendergrass

TITLE: Greatest Hits: Love TKO

LABEL: Master Classics

RIPPER: Team RNS

205kbps avg - Soul
1hr 18min total-121.9mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-05-25
RIP DATE: 2004-05-24

02 Close The Door                 4:39
03 The Whole Town Is Laughing At  4:56

04 Come Go With Me                5:00
05 Turn Off The Lights            4:47
06 Can't We Try                   4:27

08 I Can't Live Without Your Love 3:11
09 And If I Had                   4:42
10 When Somebody Loves You Back   4:51
11 It Don't Hurt Now              5:01
12 Love TKO (Destiny Chill Mix)   4:28
13 When Somebody Loves You Back   4:59
(Groover Love Mix)
14 You're My Latest, My Greatest  5:03
Inspiration (Fredco Mix)
15 Only You (On The House Mix)    4:37
16 Close The Door (Messiah Mix)   5:03
17 Turn Off The Lights (Ultra Mix)5:01

Teddy Pendergrass started singing
gospel music in Philadelphia churches,
becoming an ordained minister at ten years
old. While attending public school, he
sang in the citywide McIntyre
Elementary School Choir and in the
All-City Stetson Junior High School
Choir. A self-taught drummer,
Pendergrass had a teen pop vocal group

By his late teens, Pendergrass was a
drummer for local vocal group the
Cadillacs. In the late '60s, the Cadillacs
merged with another more-established
group, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.
In 1970, when the Blue Notes broke up,
Melvin, now aware of Pendergrass' vocal
prowess, asked him to take the lead
singer spot. It's no secret that Kenneth
Gamble and Leon Huff wanted Marvin
Junior of the Dells for their
Philadelphia International Records
roster. Since the Dells were signed to
Chess, they were unavailable. When the
gruff'n'ready vocals of Pendergrass
came their way, they eagerly signed

Beginning with "I Miss You," a steady
stream of hit singles flowed from the
collaboration of Pendergrass and Gamble
& Huff: "If You Don't Know Me By Now,"
"The Love I Lost," "Bad Luck," "Wake Up
Everybody" (number one R&B for two weeks
in 1976), and two gold albums, To Be
True and Wake Up Everybody.

Unfortunately, the more success the
group had, the more friction developed
between Melvin and Pendergrass. Despite
the revised billing of the group,
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring
Theodore Pendergrass, Pendergrass felt
that he wasn't getting enough
recognition. Around 1976, Pendergrass
left Melvin's Blue Notes and formed
his own Blue Notes, featuring Teddy
Pendergrass. Briefly, there was some
confusion as to which Blue Notes were
which. The resolution came when
Pendergrass disbanded his Blue Notes in
favor of a solo career and Melvin's
group signed a recording contract with
Source Records, distributed through ABC
Records, scoring a hit with "I Want to

Pendergrass signed a new contract with
Philadelphia International Records in
late 1976/early 1977. He burst back on
the scene with Teddy Pendergrass, a
platinum solo debut that included the
top-notch singles "I Don't Love You
Anymore," "You Can't Hide From
Yourself," and "The More I Get the More
I Want." Around this time, Pendergrass
began to institute his infamous "Ladies
Only" concerts. His next three albums