Gene McFadden RIP

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- R&B vocalist and songwriter Gene McFadden, best known for singing and co-writing the 1979 smash "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now," died Friday at home after a battle with cancer, his family said. He was 56.
McFadden and John Whitehead formed the Epsilons in their youth and toured with Otis Redding in the 1960s. They became a prominent song writing and performing duo at Philadelphia International Records, the soul music powerhouse.
"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" hit No. 1 on the R&B chart and No. 13 on the pop charts. The duo also wrote several hits performed by others, including "Back Stabbers" for the O'Jays and "Wake Up Everybody" for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.
Whitehead was fatally shot in May 2004.

― brianiac (briania), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:45 (twenty years ago)

RIP. admittedly before i clicked i thought this might be about bob mcfadden!

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:56 (twenty years ago)

We've lost them both in short order now:

RIP John Whitehead, cowriter of "Back Stabbers" and singer of "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" among many other things

"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" is such an anthem that it tends to overwhelm everything else, but what are their other goodies?

― brianiac (briania), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:58 (twenty years ago)

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― teleporter accident (alanbanana), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:59 (twenty years ago)

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― teleporter accident (alanbanana), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

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