{"id":38427,"date":"2022-12-23T01:47:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/thom-bell-legendary-philly-soul-hitmaker-dead-at-79\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T01:47:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:47:16","slug":"thom-bell-legendary-philly-soul-hitmaker-dead-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/thom-bell-legendary-philly-soul-hitmaker-dead-at-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Bell, Legendary Philly Soul Hitmaker, Dead at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thom Bell, the Jamaican-born producer, arranger, songwriter, and pillar of \u201970s Philadelphia soul, has died. The information was confirmed by Philadelphia radio station WDAS-FM. Bell was finest recognized for his work within the \u201cMighty Three\u201d with Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff; collectively, the trio created what turned referred to as the \u201cSound Of Philadelphia.\u201d He was 79. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Born in Jamaica in 1941, Bell moved to Philadelphia as a toddler. He studied classical music, and as a teen sang with Gamble, Huff, and Daryl Hall of Hall &amp; Oates. His first main break in soul music was with Cameo Records, the place he labored as a session participant and arranger. In the mid-\u201960s, Bell was launched to the Delfonics, and he produced two songs for them, \u201cLa-La (Means I Love You)\u201d and \u201cDidn\u2019t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),\u201d the second of which was nominated for a Grammy in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Bell additionally joined up with Gamble and Huff, who ran the file label Philadelphia International Records. The three males fashioned a music publishing firm, Mighty Three Music, and Bell organized for acts akin to Jerry Butler, Archie Bell &amp; The Drells, the O\u2019Jays, and Dusty Springfield. Bell additionally joined Gamble and Huff\u2019s manufacturing firm.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u201970s, Bell produced for the Stylistics and teamed up with Philly\u2019s personal Linda Creed. Together, they turned the realm\u2019s premier soul songwriting duo, writing hits akin to \u201cStop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart),\u201d \u201cYou Are Everything,\u201d \u201cBetcha By Golly, Wow,\u201d \u201cBreak Up To Make Up,\u201d \u201cYou Make Me Feel Brand New,\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m Stone In Love With You.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>By 1972, Bell produced former Motown band the Spinners for Atlantic Records; the collaboration was so profitable, it lasted for seven years and eight albums. Bell produced hits like \u201cI\u2019ll Be Around,\u201d \u201cCould It Be I\u2019m Falling In Love,\u201d \u201cGames People Play,\u201d and \u201cThe Rubberband Man.\u201d In 1974, Bell received the Grammy for Best Producer Of The Year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '514545615712257');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Thom Bell, the Jamaican-born producer, arranger, songwriter, and pillar of \u201970s Philadelphia soul, has died. The information was confirmed by Philadelphia radio station WDAS-FM. Bell was finest recognized for his work within the \u201cMighty Three\u201d with Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff; collectively, the trio created what turned referred to as the \u201cSound Of Philadelphia.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}