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Love Language

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I learned about this beautiful music via the movie Choose Me - a great comedy of errors and misbegotten choices, for which Teddy provides smooth and sexy ambiance.

I know that Teddy has done a lot of recordings and all are quite good; however, I happen to think that this CD is his very best. His true talent as a singer is heard throughout this entire CD. It even introduces the eminent Whitney Houston. This CD is perfect to listen to while relaxing or even cleaning. Sometimes adversity has a way of bringing out our very best.

"Love Language" was Teddy's first post-accident album and a strong comeback. Most of the songs, however, were more MOR-pop than R&B (which I find rather strange) but this may have been the direction Teddy planned on going had he not suffered that horrendous car accident.

I don't know why some of these songs aren't on his greatest hits CDs. Love 4/2, In My Time, they are great songs. It's most likely due to copywright laws and ownership.

There isn't a woman alive who shouldn't listen to Teddy sing beggingly "Stay With Me" and also the duet with Whitney.

I remember all the years in which Teddy Pendergrass had all his hits and sessions with Harold Melvin (deceased) and The Blue Notes. "The Love I Lost", "Wake Up Everybody", "Bad Luck", "I Miss You" and "If You Don't Know Me By Now" (done in the later years by Simply Red, Elektra) were some of the winners and were penned by the Dynamic Duo of The Philly Sound Machine, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff. Pendergrass would branch off on his own to his first solo album that yielded "I Don't Love You Anymore", "The Whole Town's Laughing At Me" and many others. He would win a Grammy Award (in a tie with the late Lou Rawls) for "Life Is A Song Worth Singing". Tragedy would haunt Pendergrass in a near fatal car crash, resulting in paralysis. Philly International would walk out on him later. His first album for Asylum / Elektra, he definitely showed that he was reborn, though his gruff vocal style he would no longer obtain. It is still, to me, a convincing return, and my favorites are just about almost the entire album. "Stay With Me" says it all, not wanting a romantic evening (or anytime) to end. "So Sad The Song" (done in earlier years by Gladys Knight And The Pips), says to leave the past behind and start over again. "Love" is a song of near-miss and foolish pride, while "Hold Me", with Whitney Houston, is a neverending never-let-me-go. "This Time Is Ours" has the same thing in common with "Hold Me". Pendergrass lost his life to cancer on January 13, 2010 at the age of 59. Ironically, Donny Hathaway lost his life on this date in 1979.

This is one of the best cool cd ever made. Teddy just sang his heart out here and if you ever have a chance to sit down for a quiet evening with someone you love with a glass of wine and this music playing in the background, you will be having one of the most memorable moments in your life.

Teddy Pendergrass recorded a session of songs for the wonderful and idiosyncratic film called "Choose Me," yet only one -- "Your My Choice Tonight" -- made it to his album "Love Language." The rest of the record, frankly, is awful. It was his first post-accident release. I wonder what happened to the rest of the "Choose Me" sessions, which were never released, as far as I know. I didn't exactly follow Pendergrass too closely. That one song, though, is great. The Cadillacs, for which he drummed, I don't believe were the same Cadillacs that are in the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and responsible for the epic slow burn glory of "Gloria" and the lightning-fast "Girlfriend." Harold Melvin was much like a cut-rate version of Billy Ward, lording over his Blue Notes (as Ward did over the great, great Dominoes) and recognizing talent, attempting to control it, and focus it, but not having much of his own. Pendergrass chafed at that and went out and had hits, but he was more of a love object than a great music star. The wheelchair he spent the last 29 or so years of his life in tested his belief in himself beyond that image. By all accounts, he acquitted himself quite well. RIP

This is the worst cd I've ever purchase it only have one good song on it.