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Gene and Kenny Gamble, co-creator of "The Sound Of Philly" go back to his record store at Broad and South, and a mutual friendship with legendary Philly Clothier Benny Krass. He loved music and dancing, and helped Kenny get a good start in the recording end and me a good start in my stage wardrobes.It was great to be able to take part in ceremony placing placques on Broad Street for dear friends Charlie Gracie and Billy Paul, and the Mashed Potatoe girl herself, Dee Dee Sharpe (Gamble). I wrote a song for her called "My Star" in my producing days.
"I've got your big and shiny photograph...with your funny little autograph..but now baby, I gotta' see..If you're ever gonna' notice me?" c.1962
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Terry's 2009 headshot. WE HAVE MET SOOO MANY GREAT PEOPLE ON THIS TRIP. THE GUYS FROM THE GROUP 'THE MAINE', TONY TARANTINO, (WHO WE HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING AND TAKING PART IN A RED CARPET SEMINAR WITH, ALONG WITH OUR OLD FRIENDS BILL HOOEY, ACTORS SANDY AND MORRIS, WIL WHEATON AND ADAM JACKSON,(SOUL-PATROL" BROTHERS, ) and our lovely SON, GRANDSON, AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, family members, and of course..RIO SOUL..whom we share more than a home with..THANK YOU ALL. MISSED SUGARFOOT MOFFET THIS TRIP,(HE'S GETTING READY TO PLAY DRUMS ON THE NEW mj TOUR IN LONDON)
SAD SAD SAD UPDATE....NO TOUR...MJ IS D E A D!
"Harry The K" is "Outta' Here!" Philly radio and the Phillies broadcasts will NEVER be the same. RIP dear friend since 1971. Harry Kalas is NOT REPLACEABLE!!!!!GARY PAPA TV 6 sports guy also gone far too young, and Irv Homer..a very special talk host who stood up for me time and time. again..has just died on June 24th. WOW! wE SAW MANY OLD FRIENDS AT HIS MEMORIAL SERVICE.
We know these pages are about music and Philly Music History, but a "Minute Of Silence" has to be held for the 5 Philly Police Officers (and the One Middletown Township Officer ) AND NOW THE 4 OAKLAND CALIFORNIA OFFICERS killed in the line of duty in the last 14 months. Thank you for trying to protect us to the point where you gave your lives to do so.
We replaced a picture that showed Gene MC'ing a concert.
Gene Arnold MC'd shows at The Spectrum in Philly starting in 1969, with Hendrix,Chicago, and so many more. Here, he's back introducing Nazz, Charlie Gracie, MFSB, The Orlons, and The Soul Survivors at the Spectrum in 2007 for the Thrill Show.Of course Gene no longer "works" at this, and it is just plain fun to do it for such long-time friends as these.
Sad to see it go. The black and white picture below is of Gene introducing Jimi Hendrix at the venerable arena.
The Flyers used to come on after Giant Gene's AM Underground on WCAM, with the late, great Gene Hart doing the play by play. Both Gene's worked together at Aquarama as well....AND, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, GENE'S AM UNDERGROUND RADIO SHOW WAS PRE-EMPTED BY TFOURTH QUARTER FLYERS HOCKEY WITH GENE HART DOING PLAY BY PLAY IN 1969 on occasional friday nights.
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Terry is shown here with Ty Giordano, a hearing-challenged star who was recently featured in "The Family Stone",,a big hit. Gene narrated the story of a deaf baseball player, Dummy Hoy, in the Hollywood feature made about him, and how hand-signals in baseball were born.
Look for a new film in which my original radio partner and still good friend RJ Ron Joseph talks about the Dick Clark bandstand music monopoly. It's called "Wages Of Spin."
I will also be featured in a new film called "Pioneers Of The Philly Sound", a documentary by award-winner George Manney
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Above is a pic of Giant gene introducing Jimi Hendrix at The Spectrum way back when. Lot's happening lately.
Terry and I were in the great STAND UP FOR CANCER TV AND MOVIE SPOTS as background actors, and this month will be in Tim and Eric's Awesome Job series on the Cartoon Network.
We were also background in "The Nail" with Tony Danza, "No Boundaries," a love story, and on 'THE ONION'network in a great McCain spoof.
Good friends all over the world need to be recognized..Lee Roy Brown, the great Photoshop artist in London has done wonderful things for our site.
Kay Wheeler, an early Elvis girlfriend has a great site at www.Kaywheeler.com
One of our oldest friends is Charlie Gracie..Philly's original rocker. Visit him at www.charliegracie.com
Lot's more coming soon.This site, and hearing from you on our facebook page that Rio set up for us is phenomenal therapy for me. Thank you all.
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Gene mc's Charlie Gracie's 50th Anniversary Concert. He presented him with his Philly Rock Hall Of Fame certificate, and Charlie also was given a Proclamation from the City of Philadelphia and an award from WIP radio.
On October 23, 2008, a plaque on Philadelphia's "Walk of Fame" for Charlie was dedicated, along with one for other old friends Billy Paul and Dee Dee Sharpe. The late Tammi Terrel was also honored with a plaque.I was pleased to be involved, and to ask Charlie about his Beatles and "British Invasion" fans..such as The Beatles, Stones, Graham Nash, Van Morrison, etc., so that the Philly "Soul" crowd and my fellow www.soul-patrol.net" members who were not familiar with him or his music had an idea of why Charlie was being honored. Long time Philly radio legend and old friend Jerry Blavat was the MC, and I appreciated his nice intro of me.
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