ORIGINAL ALBUM CLASSICS

Released by Sony's Legacy division in 2014, Original Album Classics offers a compact bundling of Teddy Pendergrass' first five solo albums, all of which were originally released by Philadelphia International. This contains Teddy Pendergrass (1977), Life Is a Song Worth Singing (1978), Teddy (1979), TP (1980), and It's Time for Love (1981) -- all Top Ten R&B albums, and all platinum, with the exception of the fifth release, which merely went gold. When this was issued, it retailed for roughly the same amount as a double-disc anthology -- a reasonably priced way to obtain a major chunk of the great Philly soul singer's catalog. ~ Andy Kellman

• Genre: R&B
• Format: CD
• Released: 02/18/2014