As a part of Arthur Jafa: BLACK POWER TOOL AND DIE TRYNIG on now at 52 Walker there is film. It has a bit of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes Soul Train performance of “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”.

Teddy Pendergrass vocals here are singular, defining.  TSOP just gets more important in the canon of American music over time. Defining moments in our collective history. He was only nominated for Grammys within his genre, none of them he won. The test of time tells a different story.