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| + | '''T.J. Tindall''' (born '''Thomas Joshua Tindall'''; 1950 – January 26, 2016) was an American guitarist. He was a member of [[MFSB]] and played on 38 gold and platinum funk and R&B records and more than 30 hits produced by [[Gamble and Huff]] in the 1970s and 1980s. Tindall is considered one of the architects of the [[Philadelphia soul|Philadelphia Sound]]. He was inducted twice into the Philadelphia Music Alliance’s Walk of Fame as a member of MFSB and the [[Salsoul Orchestra]]. | ||
| - | '''MFSB''', officially standing for "Mother Father Sister Brother", was a pool of more than thirty [[session musician|studio musician]]s based at [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia’s]] [[Sigma Sound Studios]]. They worked closely with the production team of [[Gamble and Huff]] and producer/arranger [[Thom Bell]], and backed up such groups as [[Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes]], [[The O'Jays|the O’Jays]], [[the Stylistics]], [[The Spinners (American R&B group)|the Spinners]], [[Wilson Pickett]], and [[Billy Paul]]. | + | '''Thomas Joshua Tindall''' was born in 1950 in [[Trenton, New Jersey]]. |
| - | In 1972, MFSB began recording as a named act for the Philadelphia International label. "[[TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)]]" also known as the ''[[Soul Train]]'' theme was their second and most successful single. Released in March 1974, it peaked at number one on the US ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Billboard Hot 100|pop]] and [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B]] [[record chart|charts]]. "TSOP" was influential in establishing the [[disco]] sound. The track sold over one million copies, and was awarded a [[music recording certification|gold disc]] by the [[RIAA]] in April 1974. | + | During his career, Tindall played on hits produced by "Sound of Philadelphia" architects Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff for artists such as [[The O'Jays]]' ''[[Travelin' at the Speed of Thought]]'', Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the Intruders, and [[The Three Degrees]]' album ''[[International (The Three Degrees album)|International]]''. He also backed up and recorded with [[Bonnie Raitt]] (her album ''[[Give It Up (Bonnie Raitt album)|Give It Up]]''), [[Lon & Derrek Van Eaton]] (their album ''Brother''), the Jacksons, [[Robert Palmer (singer)|Robert Palmer]]'s ''[[Double Fun]]'', the Temptations, to name a few. He can be heard on [[The Trammps]]' 1976 hit "[[Disco Inferno]]" (US #46) and their ''[[Disco Inferno (album)|album]]'' of the same name, [[Lou Rawls]]' "[[You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine]]" (US #2), [[The Jackson 5]]'s 1976 hit "[[Enjoy Yourself (The Jacksons song)|Enjoy Yourself]]" (US #6, US R&B #2), [[Eddie Kendricks]]'s "He's a Friend" single (US #36) and ''[[He's A Friend|album]]'' of the same name and album ''[[Goin' Up In Smoke]]'', [[Phyllis Hyman]]'s album ''[[Prime of My Life]]'', [[Loleatta Holloway]]'s album [[Loleatta (1977 album)|Loleatta]], [[Double Exposure (band)|Double Exposure]]'s album ''[[Ten Percent]]'', [[First Choice (band)|First Choice]]'s album ''[[Delusions (First Choice album)|Delusions]]''. |
| - | ==Overview== | + | In the 1980s, Tindall retired from music, running a company in Princeton founded by his father. In 2012, he went back to the studio to join [[David Uosikkinen]]'s project ''In The Pocket: Essential Songs of Philadelphia''. |
| - | MFSB formed in 1971 and disbanded in 1985, three years after Teddy Pendergrass' accident. | + | |
| - | Assembled by [[record producer]]s [[Kenneth Gamble]] and [[Leon Huff]], MFSB was the [[house band]] for their [[Philadelphia International Records]] [[record label|label]] and originated the signature smooth "[[Philadelphia soul|Philly sound]]" that dominated the early 1970s for the artists who recorded at the Sigma Sound Studios, including the O'Jays, the Spinners, the Bluenotes, [[The Delfonics]], [[Blue Magic (band)|Blue Magic]], [[The Intruders (band)|The Intruders]], [[The Three Degrees]], [[Jerry Butler]], and [[Teddy Pendergrass]]. Later in the decade, the collective would become known for the [[hi-hat]]-dominated [[disco]] sounds that became popular in the late 1970s with groups such as [[The Trammps]], [[First Choice (band)|First Choice]], [[Ripple (band)|Ripple]] and [[Double Exposure (band)|Double Exposure]]. | + | Tindall died of cancer in 2016 at age 65. |
| - | It was the 1972 release of their first album, ''MFSB'', that put them on the map. This marked the beginning of a string of instrumental hits that brought major attention to a large orchestra who laid the foundation for the Sound of Philadelphia. The line-up of musicians included Karl Chambers, [[Earl Young (drummer)|Earl Young]], and Norman Fearrington on drums; [[Norman Harris (musician)|Norman Harris]], Roland Chambers, [[Bobby Eli]], and [[T.J. Tindall]] on guitar; Winnie Wilford and [[Ronnie Baker]] on bass; [[Vincent Montana Jr.]] on vibes, tympani, orchestra bells, chimes, percussion, arrangements and conductor, and Larry Washington on congas and bongos, Harold Ivory Williams on keyboards, plus Leon Huff and [[Thom Bell]] on keyboards and Don Renaldo on strings and horns featuring Rocco Bene on trumpet. | + | In 2016, Tindall was inducted into the [[Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum]]. |
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| - | MFSB's disco sound first hit the top of the Hot 100 charts as the backing band for [[The O'Jays]]' "[[Love Train]]" in March 1973. | + | |
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| - | In 2005, drummer Keith Benson (who had joined the group upon Young's departure) revived the group with Gamble's help. The lineup included himself on drums, Jimmy Williams on bass, Dennis Harris and Barton French on guitars, and vocalists Carla Benson, Johnny Ingram, and Michael Clark. In 2007, Philadelphia's Inner City Horns (George Bussey, Jr., saxophone; Bill Hosbach, Jr., trumpet; and Matt Vernon, trombone) were added to the mix. The group performs live at private and concert events, and was featured at the inauguration of Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter. | + | |
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| - | ==Career== | + | |
| - | In the spring of 1974, Philadelphia International released an [[instrumental]] track which had been recorded by the band as the [[theme music]] for the television show ''[[Soul Train]]'' as a single. The record, titled "[[TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)]]" reached number one on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and also topped the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B chart]] and the [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|adult contemporary chart]]. The success of "TSOP" launched a recording career for the band under their own name. MFSB albums and singles were released for the rest of the decade. | + | |
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| - | MFSB recorded a cover of [[New Birth (band)|The Nite-Liters]]'s 1971 instrumental "K-Jee", which gained some popularity when it was featured in a key scene in the film ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' (1977). It is also included in the soundtrack to that movie. "Sexy" (1975) was later used as a prize cue for the "Big Deal of the Day" on the 1980 version of ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]''. | + | |
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| - | Another popular MFSB number, "Love Is The Message", has been a favorite of dance/disco [[Disc jockey|DJs]] since its release; countless [[remix]]es, both official and unofficial, exist of the song. On September 20, 2004, the record became among the first to be inducted into the newly formed [[Dance Music Hall of Fame]]. In October 2004, the song appeared in the [[video game]], ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', playing on funk radio station, [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas soundtrack#Bounce FM|Bounce FM]]. | + | |
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| - | Due to a disagreement with Gamble & Huff over finances, several members of the group moved on to [[Salsoul Records]], where they became known as the [[Salsoul Orchestra]]. Other members began performing as [[The Ritchie Family]] orchestra, and [[John Davis and the Monster Orchestra]]. Not to be outdone, Gamble & Huff replaced them with a new [[rhythm section]] consisting of Charles Collins on drums, Michael Foreman on bass guitar, and Dennis Harris on lead guitar. They also employed [[Dexter Wansel]] and others on MFSB's latter recordings for the label. | + | |
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| - | Since 1975, MFSB's "My Mood" has been the closing theme music for the Friday 6:00 p.m. newscast on [[WRC-TV]] (NBC4), the [[NBC]]-owned television station in [[Washington, D.C.]] MFSB's "TLC" (Tender Lovin' Care) has been used for decades as the closing credits theme for the Washington, DC version of the "It's Academic" quiz show recorded at WRC-TV. | + | |
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| - | In 2008, some of the members appeared together on new recordings made at Bobby Eli’s Studio E/The Grooveyard in the Philly suburbs. Musicians on the session were Earl Young on drums, Bobby Eli and Dennis Harris on guitars, Jimmie Williams on bass guitar, Rikki Hicks on percussion and T G Conway on keys. Two songs have been released from that session: "Soul Recession" by Double Exposure and "There I go falling in love again" by Chiquita Green. | + | |
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| - | ==Name origin== | + | |
| - | According to the book ''A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul'', by John A. Jackson, the "clean" version of the MFSB name means "Mother, Father, Sister, Brother", because according to Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, despite the diversity at Philadelphia International Records, all were connected musically. This was in line with their spiritual views at the time. The "other" version was "mother-fuckin' son-of-a-bitch", an expression which was used among the musicians to compliment a person's musical prowess. | + | |
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| - | ==Discography== | + | |
| - | ===Studio albums=== | + | |
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| - | ! width="35"| [[Billboard 200|US]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|US<br>R&B]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[Billboard charts#Albums|US<br>Jazz]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[RPM (magazine)|CAN]]<br> | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="2"| 1973 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| ''[[MFSB (album)|MFSB]]'' | + | |
| - | | 131 | + | |
| - | | 20 | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| | + | |
| - | | rowspan="6"| [[Philadelphia International Records|Philadelphia International]] | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| ''[[Love Is the Message (MFSB album)|Love is the Message]]'' | + | |
| - | | 4 | + | |
| - | | 1 | + | |
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| - | | 55 | + | |
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| - | * US: Gold | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="2"| 1975 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| ''[[Universal Love]]'' | + | |
| - | | 44 | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| ''[[Philadelphia Freedom (album)|Philadelphia Freedom]]'' | + | |
| - | | 39 | + | |
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| - | | 30 | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="1"| 1976 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| ''[[Summertime (MFSB album)|Summertime]]'' | + | |
| - | | 106 | + | |
| - | | 18 | + | |
| - | | 21 | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="1"| 1978 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| ''[[MFSB: The Gamble & Huff Orchestra]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="1"| 1980 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| ''Mysteries of the World'' | + | |
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| - | | 54 | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="1"| [[Philadelphia International Records|TSOP]] | + | |
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| - | | colspan="15" style="font-size:90%" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | + | |
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| - | ===Compilation albums=== | + | |
| - | *''End of Phase I: A Collection of Greatest Hits'' (1977, [[Philadelphia International Records|Philadelphia International]]) | + | |
| - | *''Greatest Hits'' (1990, [[Philadelphia International Records|TSOP]]) | + | |
| - | *''Love Is the Message: The Best of MFSB'' (1995, [[Legacy Recordings|Legacy]]/[[Epic Records|Epic Associated]]) | + | |
| - | *''All in the Family'' (1997, [[Sony Music Special Products|Sony Music]]) | + | |
| - | *''Deep Grooves'' (1999, Epic Associated) | + | |
| - | *''The Essentials: MFSB'' (2018, [[Sony Music]]) | + | |
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| - | ===Singles=== | + | |
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| - | ! width="35"| [[Billboard Hot 100|US]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|US<br>R&B]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[Hot Dance Club Songs|US<br>Dan]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[Ö3 Austria Top 40|AUT]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[RPM (magazine)|CAN]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[Media Control Charts|GER]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[MegaCharts|NLD]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[Swiss Hitparade|SWI]]<br> | + | |
| - | ! width="35"| [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]<br> | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="1"|1973 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| "[[Family Affair (Sly and the Family Stone song)|Family Affair]]" | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="2"|1974 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| "[[TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)]]" <small>(featuring [[The Three Degrees]])</small> | + | |
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| - | | 22 | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| "Love Is the Message" <small>(featuring The Three Degrees)</small> | + | |
| - | | 85 | + | |
| - | | 42 | + | |
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| - | | 37 | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="4"|1975 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| "Sexy" | + | |
| - | | 42 | + | |
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| - | | 51 | + | |
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| - | | 37 | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| "T.L.C. (Tender Lovin' Care)" | + | |
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| - | | 54 | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| "[[K-Jee]]" | + | |
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| - | | 18 | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| "The Zip" | + | |
| - | | 91 | + | |
| - | | 72 | + | |
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| - | | 24 | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="4"| 1976 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| "[[Philadelphia Freedom (song)|Philadelphia Freedom]]" | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| "Summertime and I'm Feelin' Mellow" | + | |
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| - | | 65 | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| "We Got the Time" | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| "Picnic in the Park" | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="1"| 1977 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| "Let's Clean Up the Ghetto" <small>(with Philadelphia International All Stars)</small> | + | |
| - | | 91 | + | |
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| - | | align="left"| "Use ta Be My Guy" | + | |
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| - | | 94 | + | |
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| - | | rowspan="1"| 1994 | + | |
| - | | align="left"| "TSOP (Theme from Soul Train '94)" <small>(vs [[Johnny Vicious]])</small> | + | |
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| - | | colspan="15" style="font-size:90%" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | + | |
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| - | ==See also== | + | |
| - | * [[The Assembled Multitude]] | + | |
| - | * [[The Funk Brothers]] | + | |
| - | * [[The Nashville A-Team]] | + | |
| - | * [[Compass Point All Stars]] | + | |
| - | * [[Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section]] | + | |
| - | * [[Hi Rhythm Section]] | + | |
| - | * [[The Section (band)|The Section]] | + | |
| - | * [[Booker T. & the M.G.'s]] | + | |
| - | * [[The Memphis Boys]] | + | |
| - | * [[The Wrecking Crew (music)|The Wrecking Crew]] | + | |
| - | * [[Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra]] | + | |
| - | * [[The J.B.'s]] | + | |
| - | * [[The Love Unlimited Orchestra]] | + | |
| - | * [[Tower of Power#Collaborations|Tower of Power Horn Section]] | + | |
| - | * [[Salsoul Orchestra]] | + | |
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T.J. Tindall (born Thomas Joshua Tindall; 1950 – January 26, 2016) was an American guitarist. He was a member of MFSB and played on 38 gold and platinum funk and R&B records and more than 30 hits produced by Gamble and Huff in the 1970s and 1980s. Tindall is considered one of the architects of the Philadelphia Sound. He was inducted twice into the Philadelphia Music Alliance’s Walk of Fame as a member of MFSB and the Salsoul Orchestra.
Thomas Joshua Tindall was born in 1950 in Trenton, New Jersey.
During his career, Tindall played on hits produced by "Sound of Philadelphia" architects Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff for artists such as The O'Jays' Travelin' at the Speed of Thought, Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the Intruders, and The Three Degrees' album International. He also backed up and recorded with Bonnie Raitt (her album Give It Up), Lon & Derrek Van Eaton (their album Brother), the Jacksons, Robert Palmer's Double Fun, the Temptations, to name a few. He can be heard on The Trammps' 1976 hit "Disco Inferno" (US #46) and their album of the same name, Lou Rawls' "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" (US #2), The Jackson 5's 1976 hit "Enjoy Yourself" (US #6, US R&B #2), Eddie Kendricks's "He's a Friend" single (US #36) and album of the same name and album Goin' Up In Smoke, Phyllis Hyman's album Prime of My Life, Loleatta Holloway's album Loleatta, Double Exposure's album Ten Percent, First Choice's album Delusions.
In the 1980s, Tindall retired from music, running a company in Princeton founded by his father. In 2012, he went back to the studio to join David Uosikkinen's project In The Pocket: Essential Songs of Philadelphia.
Tindall died of cancer in 2016 at age 65.
In 2016, Tindall was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum.
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