Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ~ The Love I Lost 1973 Disco Purrfection Version
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2019
- This song has been recognized as a pivotal moment in the history of disco. It established the dynamics that would define disco from that day on. One of the hallmarks was the open hi hat in between the kick drum beats that Earl used to propel the song forward, galloping towards ecstasy! Another hallmark was the use of strings which were recorded live as with the rest of the orchestra, and not used to "sweeten" the mix (i.e overdubbed).
This had the effect of pulling you along into the groove of the song as they all were in the same studio so the group energy dynamic helped them to create the sonics that gave life to the sad lyrics....the beautiful energy of the pretty music contrasts oh so sweetly with the loss of love lyrics that the breakup could have been avoided and Pendergrass is preaching to us all over the wonderful music track about being careful not to do the same thing.
I was soooo stoked to get my paws on these stems, the classic "The Love I Lost" I set about putting the remix together and it took me about six hours to finish it...one interesting thing was that at the very end when the percussion wells up to close out the song, there is a very familiar rhythm you may recognize that was used to open a completely different blockbuster tune that got in trouble for copyrights in 1979.
Anyway, Kenny and Leon got busy with Harold Melvin and His Blue Notes with a ballad called "The Love I Lost". During the initial session, the orchestra felt that the slow and sweet arrangement was not working, so drummer Earl counted off (1-2-3-4!) and added the one element that was missing turning the song into a disco anthem sung by one of R&B's greatest voices. It spent two weeks on top the R&B survey, then peaked at #7 on the Hot100.
It was about year too early for the disco chart since that began in November of 1974, but you can bet it would have been #1 for weeks. "Bad Luck" from 1975 was there for eleven weeks, almost three months! Pendergrass feels that the song popularity was buoyed by the stellar production and the song's subject of love. The sadness of losing a love never sounded so joyous and Pendergrass' fervent pleading to take him back still gives me chills...the man is supremely talented and the marriage of song and vocals makes for pure gold. 
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It's nearly impossible to make an all time great song greater, 🎵🎼 Papacat you certainly did it with this Smokin' Purrrrfection , of the late great Teddy P. an all time favorite of mine. I love it. There's no stoppin' you. Over 12 minutes of PURE BLISS.💋..Sweet sweet memories on that dance floor..👠♫💃
Once again, thanks for the memories.. and keep the vibes flowin' ❤️ Happy Friday..
R..P. Teddy P. you are sorely missed...
I agree 100% with you chillin - Teddy P., one of the purest, soulful voices around, will be sadly missed worldwide...Thank you my DJ Disco Cat Brother From Another Mother for this wondrous mix!
@@mikey_suzefour Hey Mikey....! Thank you... always nice to see you...Yes, Teddy P. is sorely missed...Have a wonderful week..! Peace 💕
Couldn’t agree more, up there with the best sounds from Philly and YOU make it better, that’s a talent you have there sir
Before disco was called "disco" . . . . . .
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤😊
Ah yes. 1973. I remember it well. Madras, cuffed bell-bottom pants, platform shoes, silk shirts. The works. Good times. Awesome sauce 👌.
hip huggers and tube tops
If you ever met them like I did back in 1977 you would say they were the best band ever for the era
In my youth, Saturday mornings were filled with the sounds of aspiring neighborhood bands. They practiced the soulful tunes of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, each with their own unique twist.
Absolute perfection!!!! I was in Graduate School at the University of Illinois when I first heard this... It's 2024 and it is as beautiful and as new as it was then. Thank you so very very much for uploading this and giving me a trip down Memory Lane!!!
I'm an old white guy and I love these guys too. Anything TSOP......music transcends all.
I was 21 years old. Amazing how music can put you back in time. What a feeling.
I was 25
I was in the spirit realm. 🤭
I was born in 1952, also.
THIS IS MUSIC...
REAL MUSIC...
CLASSIC FOREVER.
Wow this song! It takes me back to watching SOOOOUUUL TRAIN!!!! RIP CORNELIUS ❤ I'M DANCING CAUSE NOBODY'S WATCHING! 😊
This is another singing sensation from the many wonderful Black Bands the made the sixties and seventies a great era to be part of.
Damn, Teddy! We miss you so much! I was in Philadelphia in 1981 when he had his MVA. As a senior medical student doing an Anesthesia rotation at Jefferson Hospital, I watched when he lay on the OR table being prepped for surgery. They planned to fuse his neck vertebrae for stabilization. The Chair of Anesthesia told us that Teddy had a high cervical fracture and need mechanical ventilation. Thank goodness Teddy improved and lived for many more years.
I was 15yrs old, and I had my boombox playing Harold Melvin and the blue notes in Brooklyn NY and until this day 2024 I still listen to it, makes me happy and sad, may they rest in peace 😢
Happy Birthday to Harold Melvin of the Blue 💙 Notes 🎶 Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
I don't know what to say, so lost for words. But I will say these words, utterly spectacular, magnificent, superb, music that penetrates and moves the soul.
I became a DJ because my mom use to play music like this on the record player.
Love that Philadelphia sound!
Fabulous song never tire of it.
I ❤this song
Gamble and Huff writing... Teddy Pendergrass singing about lost love... Harold Melvin, The Blue Notes and MFSB (with the Mighty Three)... just absolute perfection!
Gotta love that Philly Sound .
Rip Teddy
Tp was special
Today is Teddy's birthday! Sing it out🎉 Happy Birthday❤
50 years after this first came out and STILL the same beautiful and pure classic that it has always been!❤
YESSSSS!!!!!
Wow, I'm 63, which means I was around 13 years old
Meravigliosi !!che bella !!e che ricordi io...
One of the most heartbreaking songs ever. If you ever was in this situation you would understand.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK 😃
I know the feeling, I was f….up from Vietnam. I lost !
I swear to God I do understand man boy do I understand
I've always called this the most joyful, life affirming breakup song ever! It's definitely one of my favorite Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes songs. Thanks for giving it the Disco Cat Purrfection treatment!
How can a song about lost love be so damn joyful? Only Gamble & Huff, HMATBN, and Teddy P. know the answer!
That's what I have always thought! I love songs that celebrate the emotion they convey, regardless of what that emotion is, but few do. This is the best example I have ever heard and just one of the many reasons I love it so much. Here's Teddy wailing "I'm in misery! Can't you see!" yet you want to get up and dance like a maniac and yell "I lost it" along with the chorus.
Most definitely
Absolutely! LOL
Thank you so much
The best ! Harold ❤
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American soul and R&B vocal group. One of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s, the group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the middle of the 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976, although they performed and recorded until Melvin's death in 1997. Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the successful years at Philadelphia International
That beautiful sound of Philadelphia!
Absolutely an all time classic from the greatest musical era..the 70s..love it !
OMG You just hit a homerun with those comments TRUE DAT!!I was so lucky to be born to experience that awesome era and some AMEN!!!
I TRULY LOVE YOU ❤️ DISCOCAT . YALL SOME BAD ASS MUFUGZ
Remember this song. I let the love of my life go in 1973. Still love her to this day. One life one love X💓💓
Dang
Dang bro. Where is shr
She.
PHILLY SOUND 🔊 WILL NEVER BE THE SAME 😔🎵🎼🎶🎤🎧🎷🎸📻
The beat ,the voices,the best!......
DJ DiscoCat you’re the best!! Evoking memories. I had a love many years ago. She was two years older and stated I was infatuated. My heart was crushed. I joined the military and became a man. Word is she never married and became a missionary in a Baptist church. Help me understand somebody. Was it me or was it her? Only God knows…1976💖💖💖💖💖💖
DJDiscoCat, thank you, thank you for this! It is purrrrrfection indeed. I first heard this song, and danced to it in Chicago, Illinois, when I was a graduate student at the University of Illinois working on my Ph.D in Romance Languages. I fell immediately in love with it. Everytime the DJ (who happened to have been my roommate) played it, everyone left whatever they were doing and flocked the dance floor like sardines in a can! It brings back great memories. I was 23 years old then. I am going on 73 in November 2023 and this song has taken me back to a moment in time that was like Camelot... a place that will remain in the mists of the glorious past, yet still very real for those of us who were lucky enough and priviledged enough to have experienced those years. Once again, thank you. G-d bless!!!
Que pasada de canción ,me pone el vello de punta , que recuerdos me trae de la Discoteca ❤
Still miss him and still love his music
PURE. *SOUL*
Wow never heard this version different from the one I I have on my Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes Collector's Item CD
Ted's voice just melts into your heart with that expression, emotion and feeling
This is a very wonderful mix
I was at Studio 31 in Chicago when this was playing..What a time for dancing..Great Song👍💃🕺🎼🎵
Damn that Bass Guitar Talking Lawd, somebody help me!!!
That must be Jamison or the Funk Brothers playing that Guitar and Drums, Lawd Lawd Lawd
This Is A Pure BANGER, Help me Addictive!!!
It’s again that great sound coming out of Philadelphia!
Mmmmm mmmm mmmm. This, here... is a dance song.... I danced to it in the 70's and I'm dancing to it in. 2019.. Which happens to be my 40th HS reunion. I'm blessed to have grown up in the 70's and 80's... CAN YA DIG IT?!
I was in my 20s when this came out. All these years and I still love it. Teddy's amazing voice is timeless.
This song says it all. ❤️🩹
My, my, my. I fell in love with The Love I Lost back in the Fall of 1973! I've listened to it many times over the next 45+ years - not lamenting a lost love, but for the iconic disco beat and rifts that seemed to have helped set the stage for disco to come. You've done this song Proud!! A mix of a very, very long time favorite expounding on the original to listen longer!!!!!
well said
You forgot Teddy & the guys’ great angst.
I remember where I was when I first heard this song in 1973! It remains my favorite after all these many years.
It was the break up song that year. I was just talking to my friend from high school about dancing to the song at Trude Hellers in NYC when we were 16. Music really is a Time Machine
SUMMER 2019 🍹🌴🍹
STILL AMAZING 💓
I danced to this song so many times starting out in 1973 and kept on dancing and dancing, There is no way You can just sit and not feel the music and get on up and Dance Dance Dance . Great MIX !!!!! I did lose the lady that I first danced to this song with but I kept on dancing and dancing Houston Tx Had fabulous dance clubs back in those days Todd's Ciaos Elans and many others around the Galleria
I was 8 years old when this came out. I vaguely remember it then but today, 50 years later, it is at the VERY top of my Playlist.
This song is a Masterpiece.
Nossa de volta ao túnel do tempo,,,,muito bom mesmo,,,sou do Brasil,,amo muito ESSAS belas músicas,,,eu só Gil,,do Brasil BAHIA,,,eu gosto mais de músicas internacionais,,,vcs dão um chou de músicas... muitíssimo obrigado pessoal,,,essas músicas são Relíquias do passado QE estarão sempre,,, presente em nossas vidas
Você está totalmente correto! Músicas como essa nos levam de volta a um tempo que, como Camelot, permanecerá nas brumas do tempo, mas muito presente para aqueles de nós que tiveram a sorte de vivenciar esses tempos. Que os orixás os abençoem com todo tipo de bênçãos.
IT WAS TEDDY'S VOICE THAT SOLD ME ! STILL A GREAT SOUND ! 💙🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶👍
*OUTSTANDING*
purrrrfection once again =)
Awesome remix this is my favorite song by this great group
Yo did it againn!!!!!!!!!!!.... Yeah!!!!, keep those tables turning!!!! Congrats!!!! From this Fan.... In Lima Perú!!!!!!!!
Surely miss Teddy Pendergrass. Great mix for one of my favorite songs!!!✔️😎
I ❤ this song
Timeless
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes é difícil esquecê-los, principalmente a voz de Teddy Pendergrass, que Deus o tenha. Amem-se e aproveitem o que a vida os permitirem viver. Aqueles tempos bons não voltarão nunca mais.
The epitome of a great love song that should be the blueprint for now days love songs.
Hello DJDiscoCat, this is a perfect remix. A beautiful song made to perfection. Thank you for this quality. 👍👍👍
Wooooooow!What a sound!
Great Song!
That 1st note sets my "memories wheel" in motion. WVBF-FM, thank you.
Wowwwww!!! Growing up on Chicago House Music, I've heard many re-works of this song, but this tops them ALL!
Fantastic im back in the in the good days of music i remember dancing to this wow bring it on love it.
I loved that time and space,ever thing was beautiful❤🎉
This song does address a rather common mishap, but it’s better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all!
Exactly. That would be much WORSE, to have never loved! 🫂❤️
2022 to 9992 Will still be playing this song 4ever . .. my high school song. We had no idea what were singing until we had divorce and break up. Now it makes sense. 🎶 🎵 🪕 🎼 💿 🎸 🎶 🎵 🪕
Uau
Show
Top
Chiques
Lindas músicas
Bora dança 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃👏👏
Mega híper super incrível
Back to the jukebox at The Golden Horseshoe in old Pioneer Square downtown Seattle (1973). My first intro to Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and that soulful voice of Teddy Pendergrass only then introduced to us. We are but 4yrs from a Golden Anniversary! Thank you DJDCV2 for keeping my gray cells well stirred up in my memory stew. Thank you.😆
What could be better than hearing your favourite songs of your youth? I know a remixed and extended version!!! Brilliant job DJDiscoCat, thank you. During this period I was living in a little town in England called Newbury. We had first fallen in love with Motown and then soul, funk, disco and Northern Soul. There were discos every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. It was a wonderful time to be a teenager 😎.
Same across the pond in Southern New England.
Extension plaisir......l ❤
September 2019....
God..... You never want this to end... No one did it better than TEDDY.....
Perfect choon to kick the long weekend off. Sing that song Teddy 👍👍👍👍👍
My heart 💔 heart pumps thundering rain this my life well explained.
This magnificent and undeniably impossible music to imitate transports me to olden days ! Absolutely amazing music! Thanks!
Goddamn, Teddy is brilliant, just brilliant with this great song, like he is with so many others.
Taking me back to my childhood growing up looking and learning 😊
In the seventies my dad was a local DJ and his nightclub he played this song all the time because he and my mom would get into little fights with with my Dad cuz of jealousy my mother would go over there to her mother house and my dad would go over there to his dad's house. Eventually they would make up then l can along Born 1973 5 lb 4 oz l was a preemie
My mother she only smoke at night also my mother was a worry about I think she have no control of and they always worried about me cuz I was the youngest and spoil I never had to work hard for nothing.
That base line ... now i gotta hear 'I Love the Nightlife '.
Yess!!! No doubt! !!..." I love the night life" was inspire on this gem!!!!!
What are the greatest songs ever
This was the biggest song in all the clubs in 1973 NYC got 3 plays per night. You’re the Coolest Cat Disco Cat.
Ohhhhh you Disco Cat!!👍👍👍
DJDisoCatV2 = I am building my music world around your mixes! thx
Powerful sound is the Philadelphia sound.Awesome. I like it.
Feel in the soul this notes.
Remember the past in the east the USA. Uffff !! Very pretty all. Congrat.
Teddy Pendergrass, my ALL-TIME Favorite Voice!!
I loved his music. We made lots of babies back in the day! Bless you Teddy!!
just great😆😆😆❤❤❤👍👍👍👍
I love this great classic long version of The Love I Lost by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass on lead vocals it is super cool disco song it so great to dance to make you wanna shout and dance!!!! Thanks for posting this video!!!! I love it!!!!! I love the 70s!!!!! Can you dig it!!!!!!!
Driving up North Broad. Philly Sound.
Gamble & Huff like Rodgers & Edwards light up contemporary music prod mixing rythm & classic elements. A climax satisfying both popular & artistic demands
I didn´t lost you, because you´re still in my heart....
...and my heart will go on....
Maravilloso tema,inolvidable, nada como esos tiempos ,lindos recuerdos!!!
「愛は幻想」この年になっても実に飽きない素晴らしい名曲
To Heck with Spotify or Pandora. You got the Hits I didn't know I needed in life. Thank you for showing me.
THIS IS THE SOUNDTRACK OF MY LIFE .
An absolute milestone and then more followed!
¡MAGNÍFICO, GRANDIOSO, MARAVILLOSO !
Outstanding!
LOVE...i did lose my complete love..MG..i guess i must move on..always in my soul..
I remember when this song came out, I had just broken up with someone and this song really hit me like a ton of bricks. Thank you for sharing this great version by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.
Complete. Real music
Perfection.