Co-creator of “the Philadelphia Sound” with longtime collaborator Leon Huff, and co-writer of such classics grroves as the “Love Train,” “Back Stabbers” and “For the Love of Money” by the O’Jays and the Grammy-winning “Me and Mrs. Jones” by Billy Paul, Kenny Gamble was born in Philadelphia on this day in 1943. (Gamble and Huff tell their story in this 1997 interview.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBLM0KUERxQ
Born on this day:
Singer/musician Joe Jackson (aka David Ian Jackson) — born 1954 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England.
Jazz pianist Jess Stacy (1904-1995), who played with Benny Goodman in the late 1930s — born in Bird’s Point, Missouri.
Alto saxophonist/clarinetist Russell Procope (1908-1981), member of the Duke Ellington orchestra — born in New York, NY.