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Live! Coast to Coast is a live album by the R&B crooner Teddy Pendergrass. It was recorded in Philadelphia in 1978 and Los Angeles in 1979. It did well on the Billboard album charts, reaching No. 33 Pop and No. 5 R&B.
Teddy Pendergrass was born Theodore DeReese Pendergrass on March 26, 1950, in Kingstree, South Carolina. [4] He was the only child of Jesse and Ida Geraldine (née Epps) Pendergrass. Ida suffered six miscarriages before successfully giving birth to Teddy. When Pendergrass was very young, his father left the family.
First, Teddy Pendergrass died of respiratory failure [6] on January 13, 2010, at age 59, after having previously dealt with colon cancer. Six months later, original member Roosevelt Brodie, who was the second tenor for the original Blue Notes, died July 13, 2010, at age 75 due to complications of diabetes. [ 7 ]
In their 1996 book Precious and Few: Pop Music of the Early '70s, Don and Jeff Breithaupt wrote that the bass line on Bad Luck "deserves serious consideration as the best of the PIR era." [12] In a 2003 review for Allmusic, Craig Lytle said the song has "an incessant grooving rhythm where Teddy Pendergrass cuts into the lyric with conviction." [13]
Year Album Peak chart positions Certifications Record label US [1]US R&B [1]CAN [2]1972 I Miss You: 53 4 — Philadelphia International: 1973 Black & Blue: 57
Teddy Pendergrass "You Cant Hide from Yourself" — — — — "The More I Get, the More I Want" — — — — "The Whole Town's Laughing at Me" 102 16 — — 44 1978 "Close the Door" 25 1 — 70 41 RIAA: Gold [4] Life Is a Song Worth Singing "Only You" 106 22 29 — "Life Is a Song Worth Singing" — — — — — 1979 "Turn Off the ...
Originally recorded by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, with Teddy Pendergrass singing lead vocals, the song had a somewhat unconventional structure, starting subdued and building slowly to a climax. [2] The title track from their 1975 album, the song spent two weeks at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1976.
"Bad Luck" (Tom Moulton Mix) 7:56: Personnel. Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, Lawrence Brown, Jerry Cummings – vocals;