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Stylistics' Soulful Romance

Phil Symes, Disc, 4 November 1972

WHAT MOTOWN did for Detroit, writers like Thom Bell, Gamble and Huff, and groups like the Stylistics are now doing for Philadelphia. With their brand of "sweet soul" they're giving to the city a musical identity of its own.

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