The Philadelphia Story 1971 - 1986 - 15 Years of Philly Classics Vol. 9 Mellow Moments 1

What would a good soul, funk or disco night be without slow songs, right? Those are collected on two albums of The Philadelphia Story of which this is the first one.
Nice slow songs like 'Love, Need and Want You' (Patti Labelle), memorizing songs, like 'My Love Don't Come Easy' (Jean Carne), the famous 'Lady Love' (Lou Rawls) or just dancing alone: You're Leaving (The Stylistics). 

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		Teddy Pendergrass		Come Go With Me		85
2		Dexter Wensel		Let Me Rock You		99
3		Stylistics		You're Leaving		147
4		Jean Carne		My Love Don't Come Easy		102
5		O' Jays		Summer Fling		107
6		Billy Paul		Sooner Or Later		105
7		Patti Labelle		Love, Need And Want You		150
8		Teddy Pendergrass		Heaven Only Knows		104
9		M.F.S.B.		Tell Me Why		109
10		Lou Rawls		Lady Love		90
11		Dee Dee Sharp Gamble		I Wanna Be Your Woman		96