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Teddy Pendergrass started singing gospel music in Philadelphia churches, becoming an ordained minister at ten years old.

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It's the "o hell damn BoringPostcards can't get his machine to broadcast so I will" edition.

Preacher Jeremiah Cummings says his life was changed forever a ' and not for the better a ' after he appeared in political commenter Bill Maher's documentary "Religulous." Bill Maher's new documentary explores atheism in America.

For the past decade, Jeremiah Cummings says, he has made a modest living as an Orlando-based evangelist who traveled the globe to encourage people to deepen their faith.

As the first group to score hits with the songwriting/production team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, the Intruders played a major role in the rise of Philadelphia soul, but are sometimes lost in the shuffle amid better-known acts like the O'Jays or Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.

'There are no arguments. No debates in the neighborhood. We all basically feel the same way: Get Bush out of there,' says Bottom Ground recording artist Ran Rover.

Various Artists Love Train - The Sound of Philadelphia Legacy /Philadelphia International Records 2008 Love Train , 71 songs sprawled across four CDs, brings together a mass of music that has already been anthologized in a variety of forms over the years, though not as exhaustively or attractively.

I'm asking him to change his ways. No message could have been any clearer. If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.

Guest Dad Joe Burris loves music, and he wonders whether kids are getting as much out of their music today as he did when he was coming of age.

"Do not attempt to adjust your radio dial," proclaims Dudley Perkins , and with that, he kicks off the Unconditional Love podcast, over an hour's worth of smooth, sultry soul jams concerned with matters of the heart.

Seemingly seconds after last week's announcement that Sigma Sound House--the hallowed Center City recording studio where Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the Delfonics and the O'Jays, and producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff spawned the Sound of Philadelphia during the 1960s and '70s--will be sold in September, a funky rumor began spinning around ...

It didn't seem prescient when they wrote the song 40 years ago, but "Only the Strong Survive" summarizes the career of soul-music luminaries Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff.

Singer Thelma Houston is best known for her number one pop classic disco cover of "Don't Leave This Way." Originally a hit for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass, the Gamble & Huff/Cary Gilbert song soars through the gospel music-honed vocals of the Leland, MS, native.