RIP Teddy Pendergrass

[Tinka Cat]

Fresh Air, (on KALW right now, at 9 AM) is doing a show on Teddy P.

If you can't catch it now, they should archive the show on their web site eventually

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13

[RGMike]

Fresh Air, (on KALW right now, at 9 AM) is doing a show on Teddy P.

If you can't catch it now, they should archive the show on their web site eventually

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13

just tuned in.Someone's reading a poem about a German Shepherd. Ah, public radio....

[Tinka Cat]

Fresh Air, (on KALW right now, at 9 AM) is doing a show on Teddy P.

If you can't catch it now, they should archive the show on their web site eventually

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13

just tuned in.Someone's reading a poem about a German Shepherd. Ah, public radio....

ah, that would be Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac.  That's a nice break every morning. -- Geoff knows this!

Every weekday at 9 AM, you'll hear Terry Gross' voice announce "From WHYY in Philadelphia and this .... is FRESSSH AIRRRR."

Then they break for the Almanac and come back and start Fresh Air.   

[RGMike]

Larry Grogan of the "Funky 16 Corners" blog posted this terrific appreciation of the Teddy P version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" -- glad to see I wasn't the only one for whom this version flew under my radar (I'd never heard it until a few years ago).

http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/teddy-pendergrass-1950-2010/

[Alicat]

Larry Grogan of the "Funky 16 Corners" blog posted this terrific appreciation of the Teddy P version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" -- glad to see I wasn't the only one for whom this version flew under my radar (I'd never heard it until a few years ago).

http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/teddy-pendergrass-1950-2010/

You knew the Thelma version first?

ahhhhhhhh BABY!!!!!!! you started this fire down in my soul......

[Gazoo]

Larry Grogan of the "Funky 16 Corners" blog posted this terrific appreciation of the Teddy P version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" -- glad to see I wasn't the only one for whom this version flew under my radar (I'd never heard it until a few years ago).

http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/teddy-pendergrass-1950-2010/

You knew the Thelma version first?

Same here ...

[RGMike]

Larry Grogan of the "Funky 16 Corners" blog posted this terrific appreciation of the Teddy P version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" -- glad to see I wasn't the only one for whom this version flew under my radar (I'd never heard it until a few years ago).

http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/teddy-pendergrass-1950-2010/

You knew the Thelma version first?

Same here ...

most folks heard Thelma's first, methinks -- the Teddy was an LP cut in an era when R&B LP cuts didn't get radio exposure (unless it was Stevie Wonder).  Philly Int'l was crazy not to release it as a 45, tho'.

[Tinka Cat]

Larry Grogan of the "Funky 16 Corners" blog posted this terrific appreciation of the Teddy P version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" -- glad to see I wasn't the only one for whom this version flew under my radar (I'd never heard it until a few years ago).

http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/teddy-pendergrass-1950-2010/

You knew the Thelma version first?

Same here ...

me, too