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Bell died Thursday at his home in Bellingham, Washington, following a lengthy illness Thom Bell, a producer who helped create the "Sound of Philadelphia" soul music has died at 79. Bell's wife Vanessa ...

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 as the Spinners’ “I’ll Be ...

"Invariably, when other producers and musicians would say that my sounds were odd for R&B, I would just tell them, ‘I don’t do R&B — I do music,'" said the man behind such hits as "Back Stabbers," "La ...

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Thom Bell, who helped to create the soul songs style that became known in the 1960s and 1970s as “The Sound of Philadelphia,” died Thursday in Bellingham, Washington. He was 79 and no cause of death ...

Grammy-winning producer Thom Bell, credited with helping develop the Sound of Philadelphia style, died at the age of 79. Alongside Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, Bell was part of the Mighty Three who ...

Thom Bell, the Grammy-winning producer who heavily influenced Philadelphia soul music, died Thursday. He was 79. His lawyer, Michael Silver, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that Bell passed away at his ...