Teddy Pendergrass - "Turn Off The Lights" (1979)

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Loooooove this one! From his album "Teddy". The song hit #48 on the Pop charts and #2 on the R&B charts. The song was sampled in "I'm Not Havin' It" by MC Lyte and Positive K and "Shots" by 9th Wonder featuring Big Dho, Sean Price and Rapsody. Nuyorican singer La India released the salsa version in 2010.

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Love it. One of his best. He had so many great hits.

[Soulsista]

TURN EM OFF!

Love it.

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#42 in Rolling Stone's 200 Best Singers Of All Time.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/teddy-pendergrass-1234643129/

Though he was one of the Seventies’ most important vocalists, it took years for people to learn Teddy Pendergrass’ name — he came to prominence early in the decade as the lead singer, though not the leader, of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, before going solo in 1977. But his voice simply couldn’t be kept in the background: Pendergrass’ timbre was deep, wide, and towering like a Redwood, and it was a fulcrum for equally gigantic emotions. Teddy’s big masculine rumble could make a breakup sound like the world ending — “The Love I Lost,” from 1973, is the most devastated — but it could also be transportingly gentle, as on the 1975 entreaty “Wake Up Everybody.” —M.M.