The Philadelphia Story 1971 - 1986 - 15 Years of Philly Classics Vol. 3 And the Sound Goes On

This third volume we see new names move in, like Instant Funk, People's Choice and The Jacksons. But the bigger hits are still from the bands and artists who got it made: July, July, July, July (Billy Paul), Dirty Old Man (The Three Degrees), Now That We Found Love (The O'Jays) and my choice for this volume: Don't Leave Me This Way by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes. Not only this is great song, but it has been an ever bigger hit by other artists later in the 80's, like the version of The Communards.

The label Streetsounds was an offshoot from the Streetwave label owned by producer and promoter Morgan Khan, specializing in 1980's urban and dance music. The signature of the label was compiling full length dance tracks, licensed from the US, mostly black club and urban dance music.

The idea was to quickly react to the scene and the trends and of course to make money that way, releasing US compilations in Europe. Despite a lot of people in Europe were into alternative styles, the label did help to promote urban electronic dance music.

The Philadelphia story is one of the most notable compilations: a 14 vinyl box set filled with full length tracks, soul mostly, but when the music changes into the 80's soul-funk and soul-disco starts to mix in.

Streetsounds also released jazz-funk, house and high-energy compilations. They went of the market in 1988 but the label was revived by Khan some years later, mostly reissuing back-catalogue material. Starting 2009 they now release NU-electro compilations.

Track		Artist		Song		BPM
1		Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes		Don't Leave Me This Way		120
2		The Jacksons		Show You The Way To Go		109
3		The Three Degrees		Dirty Old Man		118
4		Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes		Bad Luck		119
5		People's Choice		Jam Jam Jam (All Night Long)		118
6		Instant Funk		Philly Jump		105
7		People's Choice		Do It Any Way You Wanna		110
8		Jean Carn		If You Wanna Go Back		116
9		Billy Paul		July, July, July, July		97
10		The O'jays		Now That We Found Love		114
11		The Intruders		(Win, Place Or Show) She's A Winner		120