Nicest Kids in Town by Delmont Matthew F

Author:Delmont, Matthew F.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520951600
Publisher: University of California Press

The public school system didn’t teach us anything about our culture or our heritage or anything like that. So the Girard College demonstrations sort of opened my eyes to discrimination. … I felt good that Georgie Woods was there because this was somebody that I knew. … And when they were talking about how Girard College would not admit Black people, and how racist Stephen Girard and his whole system had been, it really opened my eyes up. From that day on I started to be more aware.121

By the end of the Girard protest in 1965, Gamble and his musical partner Leon Huff had started their first record label. With the help of writer-producer Thom Bell, Gamble and Huff became one of the leading R&B production teams of the late 1960s, and they founded Philadelphia International Records in 1970 as an upstart competitor to Motown. The soul-funk “Philadelphia Sound” they developed featured gospel-inspired vocals and narrative lyrics over tight rhythm tracks and lush string and horn arrangements.122 Like Motown, Philadelphia International scored crossover hits on the R&B and pop charts in the early and mid-1970s with songs like “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, “Back Stabbers” and “Love Train” by the O’Jays, and “I’ll Be Around” by the Spinners.123 With his radio show at WDAS, Woods helped to break many of Gamble and Huff’s songs, and helped to reassert Philadelphia’s status within popular music.124

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