The Philadelphia Story 1971 - 1986 - 15 Years of Philly Classics Vol. 14 Into the Philly Future

Funny enough this last volume of the Philly collection is the only one I personally think they could have made way stronger choices and it does not give much direction for that future either. Okay the collection was released in 1986 and there were not that many big philly hits at that time, but this album only contains work from 4 artists. O'Jays and the Jones Girls had been around for a while, so that leaves Shirley Jones and Whitehead Brothers to complete the record, not exactly the new kids on the block either. Lack of future vision to not dare to put some upcoming talents on this album. 

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		O' Jays		Put Our Heads Together		85
2		Jones Girls		You Can't Have My Love		116
3		Whitehead Brothers		You Lift Me Up		124
4		Whitehead Brothers		Stylin'		124
5		Jones Girls		Ah Ah Ah Ah		110
6		Jones Girls		Keep It Comin'		97
7		O' Jays		Love You Direct		118
8		Shirley Jones		She Know About Me		159
9		O' Jays		Extraordinary Girl		117
10		Shirley Jones		Do You Get Enough Love		105