Harold Melvin

Harold Melvin
“Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes” were a popular group out of the “Philedelphia Soul” stable of “Gamble & Huff”. They hit it big with “The Love I Lost” which was an across the board hit in 1974 and featured Teddy Pendergrass on lead vocals. It was Harolds “brainchild” to move Teddy from drums to the lead vocal spot. They followed up with a few more hits “Bad Luck” and “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” and helped put Disco on the map before “Saturday Night Fever” came along and gave Disco a bad name. Their hits dried-up after Teddy Pendergrass left to pursue a solo career. They say Harold ran a tight ship and kept the band together until health problems forced him out of the band in the early nineties. He died March 24th, 1997 at the age of 57.