DISCOGRAPHY
Take a historic musical journey through the Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes catalog with The Classic Blue Note, Singer Jerry Cummings.
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
To Be True
To Be True is an album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in February 1975. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff.
The album features the hit singles "Bad Luck", "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" with Sharon Paige, and "Where Are All My Friends".
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Don't Leave Me This Way
"Don't Leave Me This Way" is a song written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert. First charting as a hit for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass, an act on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label in 1975, "Don't Leave Me This Way" was later a disco hit for Motown artist Thelma Houston in 1977. The song was also a hit for British duo The Communards in 1986.
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Featuring Teddy Pendergrass
Super Hits
Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the successful years at Philadelphia International. The remaining members of the Blue Notes have reunited for Soul Train Cruises in 2013, 2015, and 2017.
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Be For Real
Be For Real is a fine selection from one of Philadelphia International’s very best and brings together four consistently enjoyable albums. Although Harold Melvin recruited new Blue Notes after the split and had some further success, their most enduring work is represented here.
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!
A compilation album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in July 1976. The album, produced by Gamble & Huff, sold over a million in the USA. The UK album release also included the track, "Satisfaction Guaranteed" which had been a big hit for the group there.
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Wake Up Everybody
A 1976 remake of "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Motown artist Thelma Houston was a number-one hit on the US pop chart. The Blue Notes' version on the album, "Wake Up Everybody" was not released as a single in the USA at the time, but proved to be the group's biggest hit in the UK (#5) when released there as a single in 1977.