Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Tarsia, founder of Sigma Sound Studios and chief engineer for Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philadelphia International Records, ...

Ximena Conde WHYY/PLAN PHILLY Aug 19, 2020 Aug 19, 2020 0 Save for a blue historical marker, it’s hard to tell Philadelphia’s 200 block of N. 12th Street was once a hub where Philly Soul and that ...

In addition to hosting Stevie Wonder and David Bowie, Sigma Studios is where Philadelphia International Records – the Gamble, Huff, and Bell label – got its start. The former Sigma Sound Studio ...

Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios recorded more than 200 gold and platinum records before closing its doors in 2003, eventually donating 7,000 tapes to Drexel University, including recordings by ...

PHILADELPHIA — What’s the most significant Philadelphia music landmark that needs to be saved? Last month, Preserve Pennsylvania announced that the John Coltrane house in Strawberry Mansion is under ...

In 2015 it officially became a Pennsylvania state historical landmark because it’s where those worldwide-loved ’70s Philly soul hits were made. Sigma Sound Studio’s list of signature recordings ...

Before Joseph Jefferson penned a string of hits for the Spinners in the early Seventies, he and his band the Nat Turner Rebellion – named after the 1831 slave revolt – entered Philadelphia’s famed ...

His work as an engineer at Sigma Sound Studios left a sonic stamp on R&B hits by the O’Jays, the Delfonics, the Stylistics and many others. By Bill Friskics-Warren Joe Tarsia, the recording engineer ...