The Philadelphia Story 1971 - 1986 - 15 Years of Philly Classics Vol. 7 Summer Philly

First part of the summer hits from the Philadelphia Collection. With songs from Dee Dee Sharp, Jerry Butler, Anthony White and The Jones Girls to name a few. 

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.

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Track		Artist		Song		BPM
1		Billy Paul		One Man's Junk		102
2		Jones Girls		This Feeling's Killing Me		84
3		Bunny Sigler		Picture Us		89
4		Anthony White		Never Repay Your Love		91
5		Dee Dee Sharp Gamble		Real Hard Day		107
6		Jerry Butler		Are You Lonely Tonight		114
7		Jerry Butler		(I'm Just Thinking About) Cooling Out		120
8		Silk		I Can't Stop Turning You		84
9		Futures		Ain't Got Time Fa Nothing		92
10		Dee Dee Sharp Gamble		Ooh Child		119