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Gamble - Old Age Ain't Tired Ultra rare modern soul funk joint from Philly, recordered at legendary Sigma Sound Studios. One of my all-time favorites💣 #modernsoul #modernsoulfunk #allvinyl #vinylcollection #vinyljunkie #45s #45collector #toysandrecords #toycollection #necros #raresoul #rarefunk #gamble #sigma #sigmasound #sigmasoundstudios #cratedigging #neverstopdiggin #vinylrecords #vinylonly #instavinyl #insta45 #instatoy #instadigger #instarecords #toy_alliance #toyplanet #funkification #funkvinyl #funk45 (at Philly) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTwB0Xds4nI/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jcrt-costellotagliapietra]

Happy 45th to this amazing record #youngamericans #davidbowie #bowieforever #sigmasoundstudios https://www.instagram.com/p/B9cAPF5JQ-S/?igshid=1xnc159zdnolg

[shadowfishtank]

@phillylovesbowie #phillylovesbowie #philly #philadelphia #davidbowie #sigmasoundstudios #sigmakids just soaking up the love (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYoi694r4cv/?utm_medium=tumblr

[partsixx]

So sad to hear of the passing of @mike_tarsia_recording, son of #sigmasoundstudios legend Joe Tarsia and a Grammy award-winning engineer in his own right. He’s #phillysound royalty and he will be missed. God speed, pa! https://www.instagram.com/p/CXHXUO7v_md8YKO89ZyY2qnOUJGydgryCQIGS40/?utm_medium=tumblr

[brewerytownbeats]

Stuck in the crib? Tired of the same ol’ Hulu & Netflix reruns?? Sit with us, next WEDNESDAY at 11am for a zoom extravaganza! We can host up to 100 guests - @skemerichards & @froz1 & #phillydavelouis will he discussing #philadelphiasoulmusic #thephillysound from 1965 ‘s Yes I’m Ready by Barbara Mason to the late 70’s pre-disco era. We will answer as many questions we can get to, discuss labels, Influential Dj’s of the time, historic theaters in Philadelphia like the Nixon & Uptown, and the classic Philly Sound that was produced out of studios like @virtuerecordingstudios #sigmasoundstudios - all moderated by Brewerytown Beats. (at Brewerytown Beats) https://www.instagram.com/p/B99ato7DMyV/?igshid=1suwbfutm230b

[djsonyt]

PHILLY 2013. 🇫🇷✈️🇺🇸🎹🎧🎯⁣ ⁣ @vidal_davisphl did something I won’t forget for us, me and my brother @rasheenfarlow. 🙏🏽⁣ I was coming all the way from Paris, France to Philly with my boy @naskem just because I had a vision to start a project all together Paris / Philly. I put in my time, my money (I didn’t had much), my energy just because I believed when nobody wanted to support ! ⁣ We were working a couple of days at @sigmasound in Philadelphia in Vidal’s studio with a great producer engineer named @iambizzness trying to figure something out (don’t remember the reason why we never finished that song with @moneyjune_ but it’s never too late). After all that time we wanted to pay him for the stu BUT VIDAL REFUSED TO TAKE A $ FROM US. NOT A CENT. 😮 So when I hear now rappers or producers or anyone in that bizz who did nothing in their career being arrogant and asking for crazy fees for a verse that sounds like shit or a recording that’s not on point at all or any other bullshit THAT SMH... ⁣ ⁣ At the end, I did my best to import the vision to French people but it was too early for them, they didn’t follow the movement. But it doesn’t matter, never a failure, always a lesson (I heard)... ⁣ ⁣ THANKS VIDAL and the team for being humble. 🙏🏽⁣👀⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #throwback #philly #philadelphia #usa #throwbackthursday #frenchboy #dreamchaser #believer #dreambig #workhard💪 #behumble #networker #musicbusiness #artistmanagement #talent #calvinklein #studio #sigmasoundstudios #hiphop #cheesesteak (à Sigma Sound) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0VaAAZo3eu/?igshid=1m31pv7doyuza

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SOUTH SHORE COMMISSION / FREE MAN (TOM MOULTON MIX) : SOUL BROTHER(12")   かつてFrancois K.も自分のレーベルから復刻していたシカゴのグループSouth Shore Commissionによるガラージ・クラシック「Free Man」が正規で12インチ復刻！名門Sigma Sound Studiosでの録音でプロデュースはBunny Sigler、アレンジはNorman Harris、バックの演奏はInstant Funk、さらにミックスはTom Moultonで、悪いわけがない名曲中の名曲！B面には今回が初12インチ化となる1973年の極上フィリ―・ダンサーUltra High Frequency「We're On The Right Track」をカップリングというのも最高！ https://www.stradarecords.com/shop/item/23003/index.php #southshorecommission #freeman #soulbrother #francoisk. #sigmasoundstudios #bunnysigler #normanharris #instantfunk #tommoulton #ultrahighfrequency #we'reontherighttrack #garageclassics #boogie #disco #lp #kobe #motomachi #recordshop #vinyl #vinyljunkies #dj #stradarecords   (Strada Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6NMSwggfK4/?igshid=zuvhgrt2gsx9

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🎶🎙📼 #ArtIsAWeapon Fascinating #Blackmusichistory, reposted from @easymobee - LOST AND FOUND: #UnclaimedProperty The Story Of How 7,000 Unclaimed #SigmaSoundStudios #MasterTapes Were "Donated" To A College University😳 Back in 2005, a storage facility placed a call to #Philadelphia's #DrexelUniversity and asked if they would be interested in a "donation" to the college. The caller said that he had 7,000 master tapes in his possession, all labeled "Sigma Sound Studios." The studio, founded in 1968 by legendary audio engineer #JoeTarsia, led an intense search for all of the tapes' original owners before closing it's doors in 2003. All of the unclaimed tapes were then placed in a local storage facility in Philly. The tapes ended up as a "donation" to Drexel University's Music Industry Audio Archive and now serve as an educational tool for it's college students' music programs. In the bulk of the massive unclaimed tape load were multitrack sessions, outtake reels and final mixes by the likes of #SlyStone #DavidBowie #GradyTate #MillieJackson #StevieWonder #TeddyPendergrass and countless others. This crazy story brings another similar case to mind. In the year 2004, I can remember when #NYC's #UniqueRecordingStudios was closing it's doors and also led the same kind of search for the owners of tapes that were left at their studio. I got the call and immediately rushed down to their Times Square address and took ALL of my tapes out All the other unclaimed tapes went into a big green dumpster. Unclaimed property turned into garbage. Just like that. Smh. One man's junk is another man's treasure. Lost And Found. EMB🐝 #TSOP #Funk #SoulMusic #MusicHistory #Preservation #MusicIsLife #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hM0Nll4AY/?igshid=uf829ii3xymj

[henriscarsstruck]

In this #Mood - #Vinyls #salsoulorchestra #1975 #Nasty #Groove #Recto - Produced by #VincentMontana Drums by #EarlYoung and #CharlesCollins #SigmaSoundStudios #SalsoulRecords #ProducerDiaries #Series #Hustle & 🔥🔥🕺🔥

[brewerytownbeats]

A blitz of photo’s - aiight, 1st flick.. Notice the #souldevalents & #carlandthecommanders - 2nd shot - "James C. Barnacle, FBI special agent, looks over part of the 17 million records, stored in a wareshouse on Delaware Avenue, taken during a raid. 3rd.. - #firstunitarianchurch 4th & 5th - @mrkennygamble & #leonhuff with #joetarsia at #sigmasoundstudios (at Brewerytown Beats) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nkdyRjhcm/?igshid=65zddcpyzr12

[mtwy]

Madonna (1-23867)

Produced By: Reggie Lucas for Kalisa Inc.                     * John ‘Jellybean’ Benitez for Jellybean Productions Inc.                   ** Mark Kamins

Recorded: Sigma Sound Studios New York City, NY (Jul 82 - Jun 83)

Released: July 27th 1983

Available on vinyl, cassette, CD and 8-track.

Side 1 1. Lucky Star (5:30)  (Madonna) 2. Borderline (5:18) (Reggie Lucas) 3. Burning Up (3:41) (Madonna) 4. I Know It (3:45) (Madonna)

Side 2 1. Holiday* (6:08) (Curtis Hudson/Lisa Stevens) 2. Think Of Me (4:53) (Madonna) 3. Physical Attraction (6:35) (Reggie Lucas) 4. Everybody** (4:57) (Madonna)

---Some versions of the LP (namely the Australian and Japanese releases) had a slightly different mix of Burning Up running at 4:48. 

After Mark Kamins produced Madonna’s first single, Michael Rosenblatt brought in Reggie Lucas to produce the next one and the resulting album.

Reggie Lucas: When Warner Brothers called me about working with Madonna, I was the big score. I signed on to do the record, and then “Everybody” came out and it made a little noise. It sold 100,000 copies, so I was like, “All right!

We had this really fun guitar thing on ”Lucky Star,“ and then she had a meltdown about guitarists – she related an experience where a rock guitarist she was sharing the stage with turned up his guitar, and upstaged her with volume. So we never completed that version.

"Borderline" was the first record I ever used a drum machine instead of a drummer. And the bass on ”Borderline“ is an ARP 2600 synthesizer, but the great Anthony Jackson is playing along on an electric bass guitar, and they’re playing so tight you can’t tell the difference.

Most of the people around Madonna at the corporate level did not get her and for the most part did not like her. You could see them recoil from her bohemianism. Everybody thought she was crazy and gross.

We had a fun experience. There was no committee rendering judgment from on high, because she was brand new and frankly nobody cared about her that much. And she had a sense of direction.

Michael Rosenblatt: It was great – there wasn’t any infighting or any of that kind of shit. Reggie wrote two of the songs, Borderline and Physical Attraction. The rest were Madonna songs. While Reggie was making the record, nobody at Warner Brothers gave a shit at all. Madonna was just a little dance girl.

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The album was to be finished by April, but Ain’t No Big Deal, one of the tracks from Madonna’s demo was signed over to its collaborator Stephen Bray for sole credit, in exchange for Everybody (with Madonna getting sole credit for that song), Stephen then sold Ain’t No Big Deal to July 4 music. It was then picked up by the band Baracuda and recorded and eventually released. Madonna was now a song short. Enter John ‘Jellybean’ Benitez. A young DJ at The Fun House.

Michael Rosenblatt: I needed to get more money to finish the record. So Seymour said, "Take her down to L.A., have her meet the executives at Warner Brothers." Once she went out to L.A., everybody started buzzing. I said to Lenny Waronker, "I need an up-tempo song; will you give me 10 grand?” He said yes. That trip to L.A., Madonna didn’t have a manager. We decided to get somebody based in L.A. to deal with Warner Brothers. So we met with Freddy DeMann. At the time, Freddy was managing Michael Jackson. So we go into Freddy’s office and we’re having this great meeting, his assistant comes in, and says, “Freddy, you have a call. Can you take it?” He says, “You guys stay here, watch this video, let me know what you think. It’s premiering on MTV in about two weeks.” Freddy puts in a video, presses play, shuts the door. Madonna and I watch the “Beat It” video. As soon as the video ends, I say, “This guy’s your fucking manager.” She says, “Yeah.” So I went back to New York with the money in hand and went to Jellybean [Benitez] and Reggie Lucas and maybe two other guys, and said, “Whoever comes up with an up-tempo dance song gets to produce it.” Literally three days later, Jellybean comes into the office and plays me a demo of “Holiday,” and it’s like, “You win.”

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Probelm solved, however another problem arose; Madonna was not completely happy with Reggie Lucas’ production on the album.

John ‘Jellybean’ Benitez “She was unhappy with the whole [album], so I went in and sweetened up a lot of music for her, adding some guitars to ’Lucky Star’, some voices, some magic… I just wanted to do the best job I could do for her. When we would playback ’Holiday’ or ’Lucky Star’, you could see that she was overwhelmed by how great it all sounded. You wanted to help her, you know? As much as she could be a bitch, when you were in groove with her, it was very cool, very creative.”

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With production pushed back to June, Holiday was added and the album remastered with Jellybean’s touch. As a result of the delay the original album design was scrapped. Michael Rosenblatt sent Madonna back into the photo studio, this time with photographer Gary Heery for the now iconic photoshoot.

A month later the album came out with little fanfare. Billboard gave it a favourable review, while the few print media that did review it hedged their bets, enjoying the production but unsure of Madonna’s voice and artistry. It took months before the album got noticed, but it still remains Madonna’s seminal piece, the one that started it all.

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WILLIAM DEVAUGHN / BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU GOT : DEMON (LP)  The 1974 masterpiece album by the soul singer William DeVaughn of Washington DC is regularly reprinted! The title tune which also covered Massive Attack is especially popular!   ワシントンDCのソウル・シンガーWilliam DeVaughnによる1974年の名作アルバムが正規復刻！Massive Attackもカヴァーしたタイトル・チューンが特に人気！録音は伝説のSigma Sound Studio、Norman HarrisやVince Montanaも参加したメロウ・ソウル～レア・グルーヴ傑作アルバムです！180グラム重量盤仕様！  http://www.stradarecords.com/shop/item/22162/index.php #williamdevaughn #bethankfulforwhatyougot #demon #70s #massiveattack #sigmasoundstudio #normanharris #vincemontana #mellowsoul #raregroovsoul #重量盤 #lp #kobe  #motomachi #recordshop #vinyl #vinyljunkies #dj #stradarecords (Strada Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/By1bTkIAkSN/?igshid=it9dwbhgbhc

[ziggystradust]

David Bowie, Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, August 1974.