Harold Melvin & Teddy Perdergrass

[Marcio**]

from...

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/07/27/033838.php



''Pendergrass credits Melvin with teaching him the ins and outs of show business. However, the relationship was fraught with tension from the start. For years, Melvin insisted on calling the group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Many a confused person thought that Pendergrass, the tall, dark, lead vocalist, a commanding presence, was Melvin. The problems extended beyond Melvin's egoistic effort to promote himself at Pendergrass' expense. According to Truly Blessed, Melvin could be quite abusive and kept royalties for himself instead of distributing the money among the group's members. Though on their way up in the business, the other Blue Notes often did not have even ticket money home."


''In 1975, an incident in Los Angeles, when Melvin partied at an expensive hotel, while leaving the others at a low-rent motel, set the stage for the the end of the collaboration. Pendergrass says Melvin peremptorily broke the date, leaving the others stranded without any money. He quit Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes and briefly formed a competing Blue Notes"


:)

[efunk_adelic]

well we all knew it was doomed from the beginning.... I'm surprised they lasted that long. So many classics by them.