Philly Soul Documentary Featuring Gamble, Huff & Bell In The Works From Alex Gibney, Sam Pollard, Warner Music & Imagine Documentaries
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The story of Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell, who created the sound of Philly Soul, is to be chronicled in a new feature documentary.Sam Pollard, director of Mr.
Soul!, MLK/FBI and Citizen Ashe, will direct The Sound of Philadelphia with Alex Gibney, director of docs including Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, set as exec producer.The doc, which will tell the story of the sound of late 60s/early 70s soul music, comes from Warner Music Entertainment, publishing company Warner Chappell Music and Imagine Documentaries in partnership with Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions.The Sound of Philadelphia will include exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage featuring the songwriters and producers Gamble, Huff, and Bell – known as The Mighty Three.
It will explore how the founders of the legendary record label Philadelphia International Records, crafted their sound and navigated the music business.The trio wrote and produced songs including Love Train by The O’Jays, If You Don’t Know Me Now by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Me and Mrs.
Jones by Billy Paul and TSOP by MFSB and the Three Degrees – known for its use as the Soul Train theme song.It will also explore their work with the likes of The Jacksons, Dusty Springfield, Lou Rawls, The Three Degrees, Patti LaBelle, Nancy Wilson, Elton John, The Temptations and The Supremes.The feature doc will be exec produced by Gibney, Pollard, Imagine’s Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Sara Bernstein, and Justin Wilkes, Warner Music Entertainment’s Charlie Cohen, Warner Chappell Music’s Ashley Winton, Jigsaw’s Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, and Erin Edeiken and Unigram’s Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron.“After six decades, we are incredibly proud to finally
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