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Posted in music on January 14, 2010

Teddy Pendergrass, RIP

Teddy Pendegrass

Silky voiced soul singer Teddy Pendergrass, whose hits "Turn Off the Lights" and "If You Don't Know Me By Now" set the mood for millions of fans, has died at age 59.

The singer's son, Teddy Pendergrass II, said his father died Wednesday night at Bryn Mawr Hospital.

Pendergrass' son said his father underwent colon cancer surgery eight months ago and had "a difficult recovery."

The elder Pendergrass was born March 26, 1950 in Philadelphia. His mother, who raised him, discovered his talent when he started singing in church when he was only 2 1/2 years old, according to his Web site. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

RIP

Tags: RIP, Teddy Pendergrass
posted at 5:09 PM on January 14, 2010 in music | Comments (26)

Comments (26)

there are black artists today who are just as good. really, there are.

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 5:15 PM

@ 5:15

Ok...name some?

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 5:18 PM

OD?

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 5:23 PM

R.I.P.

Posted by TXn | January 14, 2010 5:33 PM

Steve Harvey classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4rLHwPy8hk

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 5:37 PM

How is his son "II" and not "Jr."?

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 5:37 PM

@537 thank you

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 5:45 PM

To 5:37: Usually reserved for kings or popes, it's perfectly acceptable to substitute II for Jr. For the "common man" it's pretentious but still acceptable.

Posted by g | January 14, 2010 6:22 PM

5:37 and g:

II can also be used if a generation is skipped (grandfather to grandson) Technically a Jr. automatically becomes a II when Sr. dies, but that's obviously fallen out of practice. It HAS become a bit pretentious, but that is a pretty recent development. . .

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 7:18 PM

it's like a fuckin oxford comma

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 7:27 PM

^ LAME blogger trying to promote his blog

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 7:38 PM

who cares i need to cry about bad musicians who are popular in my indie community

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 7:40 PM

can you blame him? i'd suck the air out of bjork's asshole and hold it in like a bong hit

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 7:45 PM

i'd suck the air out of bjork's asshole and hold it in like a bong hit

^NOW THAT IS A SCENE

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 7:49 PM

can you blame him?

-Have you read the article?

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 7:50 PM

I like his "If You Don't Know Me By Now", sincerely hope he can still sing in the heaven.

Posted by terracotta warriors | January 14, 2010 8:43 PM

WOW!!! that link at 7:31 is some seriously illiterate, ignorant horseshit. It takes some valid points and stomps them to the most thoughtless common denominator possible. As awful as so many BV comment board posts are I'll take them any day over such pathetic score settling. Talk about pissing in the wind!

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 9:57 PM

first jay retard, now teddy pendergrass. they go in threes. who's next? or does vic chesnutt count?

Posted by grim reaper | January 14, 2010 10:59 PM

@10:59, Bobby Charles. RIP.

Posted by :( | January 14, 2010 11:27 PM

if you can't get laid playing a teddy pendergrass album, you got no game.

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 11:50 PM

you got, you got, you got what i need!

Posted by Anonymous | January 15, 2010 12:05 AM

can you blame him?

-Have you read the article?

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2010 7:50 PM


You cant blame Bjorks asshole if you cant read it properly. Cant blame her but thats gross.

Posted by Anonymous | January 15, 2010 1:34 AM

“I find it very difficult to draw a line between what's sex and what isn't. It can be very, very sexy to drive a car, and completely unsexy to flirt with someone at a bar.”

Bjork quote

Posted by Anonymous | January 15, 2010 1:36 AM

“It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.”

Bjork quote http://thinkexist.com/quotes/bjork/2.html

Posted by Anonymous | January 15, 2010 1:39 AM

He had a really beautiful voice, r.i.p.

Posted by Anonymous | January 15, 2010 7:52 AM

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