I Miss Youby Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

YBN Cordae sampled this one for 2019's "We Gon Make It." -- A self-taught pianist, as a teenager in 1953, Melvin began singing doo-wop with a vocal ensemble called the Charlemagnes. The following year, 1954, he established a quintet, the Blue Notes gathering together Bernard Williams, Roosevelt Brodie, Jesse Gillis, Jr., and Franklin Peaker. In 1972, the group now known as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were on tour with the Cadillacs, whose young percussionist was Theodore “Teddy” Pendergrass. Later in 1972 Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes released their first album on the Philadelphia International label, I Miss You. It featured a single of the same name that became a signature recording for the group with Pendergrass as the lead vocalist. -- R.I.P., Harold Melvin, who died last year at age 57: www.nytimes.com

Rev's 1972 Slow Jam of the Week! <3 It was Monday, March 24, 1997, when Harold Melvin, the leader of the rhythm-and-blues group the Blue Notes who molded a rough-voiced drummer named Teddy Pendergrass into a lead singer on the hits ''The Love I Lost'' and ''If You Don't Know Me By Now,'' died at age 57.: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1997/03/27/307807.html?pageNumber=49