The o'jays News

Octane Sometimes, young lovers, you really do have to spell it out, particularly in the heady fog of Valentine's Day .

The O'Jays were one of Philadelphia soul's most popular and long-lived outfits, rivaled only by the Spinners as soul's greatest vocal group of the '70s. In their prime, the O'Jays' recordings epitomized the Philly soul sound: smooth, rich harmonies backed by elaborate arrangements, lush strings, and... MORE

Two young songwriters, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, had formed a record company, P.I.R. , a division of CBS Records. They created a lasting legacy of great music, pairing talented entertainers with their own great songs and those by others to infuse a whole new and delightful energy into soul and R&B. One night in summer 1973, P.I.R. showcased the Philadelphia sound for 1,500 of music's movers and shakers at a CBS Records convention.

The O'Jays perform at the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear on the National Mall on Oct.

After the Spinners and the O'Jays, the Stylistics were the leading Philly soul group produced by Thom Bell.

Don Cornelius conducted us on the "hippest trip in America" for more than two decades on Soul Train, and in the process shone a light on R&B stars that mostly performed in the shadows of the mainstream.

For a very white kid growing up in a very white town in the Seventies, "Soul Train" really was "The Hippest Trip in America," and a kind of weekly master class in soul music that taught me more than I can say here in a few works.

Grammy-winning vocalist and songwriter Seal will release his eighth studio album, Soul 2 in the U.S. on January 31st, 2012, on Warner Bros.

The O'Jays were one of Philadelphia soul's most popular and long-lived outfits, rivaled only by the Spinners as soul's greatest vocal group of the '70s. In their prime, the O'Jays' recordings epitomized the Philly soul sound: smooth, rich harmonies backed by elaborate arrangements, lush strings, and... MORE

The O'Jays were one of Philadelphia soul's most popular and long-lived outfits, rivaled only by the Spinners as soul's greatest vocal group of the '70s. In their prime, the O'Jays' recordings epitomized the Philly soul sound: smooth, rich harmonies backed by elaborate arrangements, lush strings, and... MORE

BY GABRIEL GOTTLIEB/ The famed Uptown Theatre, a landmark theater on N. Broad Street that had entertained generations of Philadelphians and launched many musicians and singers to stardom, has finally started its long-awaited renovation.

There are many good intentions to The Listening Room , perhaps 2,000 of them - the approximate number of albums Theaster Gates salvaged from an old Chicago record shop.

Comedian "Hamburger" is one of the funniest men alive and he proved it Saturday night, as the opening act for the beloved O'Jays who performed to a full house of adoring fans at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, located in the Bronx.

St. Petersburg showed the O'Jays lots of love this past Thursday night. So much love, in fact, that just about every song they performed met with an instant mix of feminine swoons and joyful sing-a-longs to fill the majestic Mahaffey Theater.