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This window of opportunity was Philadelphia's second, the first having come from Dick Clark nearly a decade earlier. When Sigma opened its doors in 1968, the forces that developed Philadelphia Soul music were already in motion as Gamble and Huff's first national hit, The Soul Survivors \"Expressway to Your Heart\", was released in 1967. However, Tarsia created a state-of-the-art facility where the Philadelphia music community would converge to develop a signature sound and a musical legacy. This paper examines audiotapes from the Sigma Sound Studios Collection of the Drexel University Audio Archives that were recorded in the early years of Sigma. From these tapes, the blending of styles within the Philadelphia Soul genre is apparent with elements of Doo-Wop, Funk, Soul, Gospel, R\u0026amp;B, and Disco represented. Some of the artists represented in these early tapes are The Delfonics, The Stylistics, The Moods, Earl Young, Holly Maxwell, Harold Melvin \u0026amp; The Blue Notes, Len Barry and others.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Video Editor"]},"value":{"en":["Nathan Georgitis (Video Editor)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eSigma Sound Studios founder, Joe Tarsia, attributed Sigma's early success to taking advantage of \"a window of opportunity\" created by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff. This window of opportunity was Philadelphia's second, the first having come from Dick Clark nearly a decade earlier. When Sigma opened its doors in 1968, the forces that developed Philadelphia Soul music were already in motion as Gamble and Huff's first national hit, The Soul Survivors \"Expressway to Your Heart\", was released in 1967. However, Tarsia created a state-of-the-art facility where the Philadelphia music community would converge to develop a signature sound and a musical legacy. This paper examines audiotapes from the Sigma Sound Studios Collection of the Drexel University Audio Archives that were recorded in the early years of Sigma. From these tapes, the blending of styles within the Philadelphia Soul genre is apparent with elements of Doo-Wop, Funk, Soul, Gospel, R\u0026amp;B, and Disco represented. Some of the artists represented in these early tapes are The Delfonics, The Stylistics, The Moods, Earl Young, Holly Maxwell, Harold Melvin \u0026amp; The Blue Notes, Len Barry and others.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/166/076/small/ARSC_conf_2012_Seay_video_thmb.jpg?1661537244","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1508/collection_resources/78578/file/166076","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 2 - ARSC_conf_2012_Seay_video.mp4"]},"duration":1587.79733,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/166/076/small/ARSC_conf_2012_Seay_video_thmb.jpg?1661537244","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1508/collection_resources/78578/file/166076/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1508/collection_resources/78578/file/166076/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/166/076/original/ARSC_conf_2012_Seay_video.mp4?1661537244","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":1587.79733,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1508/collection_resources/78578/file/166076","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1508/collection_resources/78578/file/255136","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - ARSC_conf_2012_Seay_audio.mp3"]},"duration":1562.61125,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1508/collection_resources/78578/file/255136/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1508/collection_resources/78578/file/255136/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/255/136/original/ARSC_conf_2012_Seay_audio.mp3?1730316789","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":1562.61125,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1508/collection_resources/78578/file/255136","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}