I hope you had a chance to meet our newest Blue America candidate, Jim Neal, this morning; the transcript is here at FDL. A couple weeks ago he told me that when he made his final decision to take on Elizabeth Dole for a senate seat once held by Jesse Helms, he was listening to Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes. I put together a little clip with some random images and the music but it’s really the music I wanted to talk about tonight. When the Philly dance sound hit in the 1970s this group, which had been around a long time, just took off like a rocket with… Teddy Pendergrass as the frontman. Their biggest hits were “If You Don’t Know Me By Now,” “The Love I Lost,” “Don’t Leave Me This Way,” “Bad Luck,” and, of course, “Wake Up Everybody.” Harold Melvin, who was almost as old as John McCain– but not that old– died in 1997.
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