Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes

 

Listen/Download – Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes – Don’t Leave Me This Way (Extended Mix)

 

Greetings all.

This is going to be a very short entry, due to the fact that I have less than no time this week (this is being written/prepared several days in advance).

Thanks to a combination of planned (my folks 50th wedding anniversary and some DJ work) and unplanned (the whole family had to travel at the last minute to attend a funeral) I am operating at a serious time deficit.

I didn’t want to leave the blog hanging with the lights on and the door open, so I thought I’d put something interesting up that didn’t require a whole lot of explanation.

One of my cooler recent finds was a two record set released by Philadelphia International in 1977 as (I think) a promotional set for radio and club DJs. It features long mixes of some of the better known PI hits, but was especially interesting to me due to the inclusion of an especially long mix (unavailable elsewhere) of one of my personal favorites, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’.

There are no specific credits on the album as to who did the remixing, but my assumption is that it was probably someone from the axis of Gamble/Huff, Ronnie Baker and Norman Harris, all of whom were involved in the production and arrangement of the original appearance of the song on the group’s 1975 ‘Wake Up Everybody’ LP. If anyone knows different, please let me know in the comments.

That said, it’s about five minutes more of the good stuff than you get on the album track, which in the case of this mightiest of Philly dance floor anthems is most excellent.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

Peace

Larry

 

 

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3 Responses to “Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes – Don’t Leave Me This Way (Extended Mix)”

1. jb says:

   August 1, 2011 at 6:36 am

   I found the “Philadelphia Classics” compilation in a used shop probably 25 years ago. It’s a party in a box for sure.

2. Larry Grogan says:

   August 1, 2011 at 9:34 am

   Indeed. I could spin a whole set using just those two discs!

3. KenG says:

   August 7, 2011 at 10:23 pm

   Amazing. Too cool for words. Hadn’t heard the extended version yet and now I can’t imagine living w/out it. Thanx for sharing.