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Mary Wilson Biography
Teddy Pendergrass started singing gospel music in Philadelphia
churches, becoming an ordained minister at ten years old. While
attending public school, he sang in the citywide McIntyre Elementary
School Choir and in the All-City Stetson Junior High School Choir. A
self-taught drummer, Pendergrass had a teen pop vocal group when he was
15.
By his late teens, Pendergrass was a drummer for local vocal group the
Cadillacs. In the late '60s, the Cadillacs merged with another
more-established group, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. In 1970,
when the Blue Notes broke up, Melvin, now aware of Pendergrass' vocal
prowess, asked him to take the lead singer spot. It's no secret that
Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff wanted Marvin Junior of the Dells for
their Philadelphia International Records roster. Since the Dells were
signed to Chess, they were unavailable. When the gruff'n'ready vocals
of Pendergrass came their way, they eagerly signed the group.
Beginning with I Miss You, a steady stream of hit singles flowed from
the collaboration of Pendergrass and Gamble & Huff: If You Don't
Know Me By Now, The Love I Lost, Bad Luck, Wake Up Everybody
(number one R&B for two weeks in 1976), and two gold albums, To Be
True and Wake Up Everybody.
Unfortunately, the more success the group had, the more friction
developed between Melvin and Pendergrass. Despite the revised billing
of the group, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring Theodore
Pendergrass, Pendergrass felt that he wasn't getting enough
recognition. Around 1976, Pendergrass left Melvin's Blue Notes and
formed his own Blue Notes, featuring Teddy Pendergrass. Briefly, there
was some confusion as to which Blue Notes were which. The resolution
came when Pendergrass disbanded his Blue Notes in favor of a solo
career and Melvin's group signed a recording contract with Source
Records, distributed through ABC Records, scoring a hit with I Want to
Be Your Lover.
Pendergrass signed a new contract with Philadelphia International
Records in late 1976/early 1977. He burst back on the scene with Teddy
Pendergrass, a platinum solo debut that included the top-notch singles
I Don't Love You Anymore, You Can't Hide From Yourself, and The
More I Get the More I Want. Around this time, Pendergrass began to
institute his infamous Ladies Only concerts. His next three albums
went gold or platinum: Life Is a Song Worth Singing (1978), Teddy
(1979), and Teddy Live (Coast to Coast). The hit single Close the
Door was used in the film Soup for One, where Pendergrass had a small
role.
The singer received several Grammy nominations during 1977 and 1978,
Billboard's 1977 Pop Album New Artist Award, an American Music Award
for best R&B performer of 1978, and awards from Ebony magazine and
the NAACP. He was also in consideration for the lead in the movie
biopic The Otis Redding Story. The '70s ended, but Pendergrass kept
racking up the hits. TP, his fifth solo album, went platinum in the
summer of 1980 off the singles Turn Off the Lights, Come Go With
Me, Shout and Scream, It's You I Love, and Can't We Try. It's
Time for Love gave Pendergrass another gold album in summer 1981, which
included the hit singles Love TKO and I Can't Live Without Your
Love.
A 1982 car accident left Pendergrass paralyzed from the waist down and
wheelchair bound. After almost a year of physical therapy and
counseling, Pendergrass returned to the recording scene, signing a
contract with Elektra/Asylum in 1983. His ninth solo album, his
Elektra/Asylum debut, Love Language went gold the spring of 1984.
Philadelphia International issued two albums of unreleased tracks, This
One's for You (1982) and Heaven Only Knows (1983). Other albums
included Workin' It Back (1985), Joy (1988, whose title track went to
number one R&B for two weeks), and Little More Magic (1993). The
latter half of '90s found Pendergrass recording for the Surefire/Wind
Up label. Truly Blessed (the name of an 1991 Elektra album) is the
title of the autobiography Pendergrass co-authored with Patricia
Romanowski. ~ Ed Hogan, All Music Guide
Written by Ed Hogan