A House On Fire

Author: John A. Jackson
Date of completion: 1968

“If You Don’t Know Me By Now,” “The Love I Lost,” “The Soul Train Theme,” “Then Came You,” “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”–the distinctive music that became known as Philly Soul dominated the pop music charts in the 1970s. In A House on Fire, John A. Jackson takes us inside the musical empire created by Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell, the three men who put Philadelphia Soul on the map.

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