#the delfonics

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The legendary Delfonics!!!

Rest In Peace to William “Poogie” Hart Center), and Randy Cain (top right and bottom left). Wilbert “Wil” Hart (pictured top left and bottom right) is the surviving member of The Delfonics. He is still performing continuing their legacy.

We, The National R&B Music Society inducted The Delfonics into our Atlantic City Walk of Fame in April of 2023.

Singer Major Harris replaced Randy Cain upon his departure in the early 70s.

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Can I Get A Sample?!

Sample(s)

Whodini- Friends (1984)

Kurtis Blow- If I Ruled the World (1985)

The Delfonics- LaLa Means I Love You (1972)

Sampler

Nas- If I Ruled the World [ft. Lauryn Hill] (1996)

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Remembering William “Poogie” Hart on his birthday. Hart was the main singer and songwriter for the marvelous Delfonics, an essential piece of The Sound of Philadelphia.

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he said goodbye! just let me cry!

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49 & 83

49:

83:

Two vastly different songs, but I love them both!!

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The Delfonics - Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) (Audio)

Mood.💓

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William "Poogie" Hart † July 14, 2022

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ALBUMS I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO LATELY

Feb 07 2023

Tell Me This Is A Dream - The Delfonics (1972)

Don Cherry - Don Cherry (1975)

Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) - Thom Yorke (2018)

Time’s Arrow - Ladytron (2023)

Humanz (Deluxe) - Gorillaz (2017)

Infinite Zonez - Suzi Analogue (2022)

The first two albums feature music that FX’s Atlanta used, which is a show I’m slowly working my way through. They picked some really cool songs for that show.

The Suspiria remake soundtrack is really good for the short story I’m writing.

Time’s Arrow is a new album from Ladytron, a band I got into recently.

Humanz is still really good after all these years, I’m genuinely so bitter that racism kept it from getting the accolades it deserves.

My longtime friends got me into Suzi Analogue so I’m checking out her discography

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hey love

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Throwback: R.I.P. Thom Bell

Throwback: R.I.P. Thom Bell @TheSpinners2 @RealStylistics @DelfonicsLaLa @mrkennygamble @LeonAHuff

Thom Bell was a Kingston-born, American singer/songwriter, classically trained piano, arrangement and composer. best known as one of the architects — along with frequent collaborators Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff — of the famed Philadelphia soul sound in the 1970s. Bell found success as a songwriter and producer for the likes of The Delfonics, The Stylistics and The Spinners — or better put, he’s…

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R.I.P. Thom Bell

Thom Bell, one of the creators of the Philadelphia soul sound, died last Thursday at age 79. Bell's earliest successes as an arranger go back to his days of working with the local group The Delfonics and producing their hits "La-La (Means I Love You)" and "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)?" He later joined Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's record company and arranged music for The O'Jays, Archie Bell & The Drells, Dusty Springfield, Jerry Butler and Jerry Bell. The three of them also formed the Mighty Three Music publishing company. Bell's production genius went on to produce The Stylistics, The Spinners, James Ingram, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dionne Warwick, Deneice Williams and The Temptations.Bell had formed a songwriting partnership with Linda Creed that was responsible for the hits with The Spinners and The Stylistics. 

The sound Bell developed with Gamble and Huff had joyful orchestration, rumbling bass lines and what Fred Wesley described as "putting the bow tie on funk." Bell's training as a classical pianist gave him the vision to add violin and the oboe to his arrangements which was unheard of in R&B. His admitted influence from Burt Bacharach was so strong that he was called the Black Burt Bacharach. The songs he produced were the backbone of '70s soul and his work with Williams in the '80s was on two of her biggest song; "Silly" and "It's Gonna Take A Miracle." Bell retired from music in the '90s around the same time Mighty Three Music was sold to Warner Chappell Music. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 2006, the Musicians Hall Of Fame and Museum in 2016 and in 2017 received a Grammy Trustees Award. 

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29-03-2023

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RIP  Thom Bell   January 26, 1943 – December 22, 2022