Thom Bell discusses 50 years of Philadelphia International Records in this interview. How Thom Bell Created a Sound for a City, a Record Label, and for Generations of Fans Marcus Shorter ...

What does a 200-ton bell sound like? It’s an academic question, as the only accessible bell of that size broke beyond repair shortly after manufacture in 1732 in Russia. The Tsar Bell captured the ...

Try to think of a world without recorded sound. No radios, televisions or telephones. Out of that relative silence rings a voice: Alexander Graham Bell’s — the man widely credited with the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Thom Bell, the Grammy-winning producer, writer and arranger who helped perfect the “Sound of Philadelphia” of the 1970s with the inventive, orchestral settings of such hits ...

Thom Bell speaks onstage during the Grammy Salute to Music Legends event at Beacon Theatre on July 11, 2017, in New York City. Getty Images for NARAS “He was a great talent and my dear friend.

Thom Bell, Key Figure of the Sound of Philadelphia, Has Died at Age 79 “The only Bell they knew in Philly had a crack down the middle. So, I started writing melodies,” the hit-maker once said.

Producer, composer and arranger Thom Bell was one of the prime originators of the Sound of Philadelphia, creating hits with the Delfonics such as "La La La Means I Love You" and "Didn't I Blow ...

Nick Lemos gets emotional as he speaks about the history of the bell at his home in Belmont, Calif. on Friday June 20, 2014. The sailing schooner Adventuress was badly damaged in a fire in June of ...

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Alexander Graham Bell, as you probably know, invented the telephone. What you may not know, is that he also made crucial refinements to the first techniques used to record and play back sound. And ...

Legendary producer, composer, and musician Thom Bell, a pioneer of the "Philly Sound," died on Thursday, Dec. 22. He was 79.

Producer Thom Bell, who co-created “The Sound of Philadelphia” alongside Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff as the Mighty Three, has died at age 79. His cause of death was not immediately made known.