Subject: Gamble and Huff

• Sound Checks

  May 19, 1999

• Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass, "If You Don't Know Me by Now"

  The Singers: Harold Melvin got top billing with the Blue Notes, but the quintet is best remembered as the proving ground for Teddy Pendergrass, whose raspy, unbound voice was supported by the act's velvet harmonies. Pendergrass took the lead on today's slow jam and on "The Love I Lost," another classic Gamble & Huff production from the group's time on Philadelphia International Records. Pendergrass went on to larger fame as a solo artist before retiring from the music business a few yea

  January 14, 2009

• The Rough and the Real

  Before he writes, novelist George Pelecanos does his homework

  March 26, 2003

• One on One: Outtakes from the RFT Interview with John Oates

  In this week's issue, I spoke with Hall & Oates' guitarist and songwriter, John Oates. Oates will be in town on Friday night to play the annual American Mustache Institute 'Stache Bash at the Roberts Orpheum. Mark Maglio​ Despite being clean-shaven for almost 20 years, Oates took some time to reflect on his old hirsute image as well as his band's contribution to the American musical landscape. Unfortunately the dead-tree version of the RFT couldn't contain all the history, wisdom and reco

  October 29, 2009