PHILLY SOUL HOUR WITH AL RANDALL - JULY 3, 2026

Philly Soul Hour with Al Randall This episode explores the heart of the Philadelphia soul sound — from early Arctic Records harmony groups to the lush productions that shaped the Philly Groove era. Featuring Barbara Mason, Honey & The Bees, First Choice, The Delfonics, The Ambassadors, The Volcanoes, and more. Al Randall delivers a fully scripted hour with years, labels, and deep‑cut trivia, highlighting the artists, producers, and studios that made Philly one of the most influential soul capitals in America. 

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Barbara Mason – Is It Me

Della Humphrey – (Girls Have Feelings) Just Like the Boys Do

Tiffanys – Lover Boy

Teddy & the Fingerpoppers – Soul Groove (Pt.1)

Ben Aiken – Handle With Care

Honey & the Bees – Dynamite Exploded

Honey & the Bees – Why Do You Hurt the One Who Loves You

Lane Relations – Cleaning Up Here

The Ambassadors – I Dig You Baby

Dee Dee Barnes – Do What You Wanna

First Choice – Smarty Pants

Nat Turner Rebellion – Ruby Lee

The Delfonics – Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)

The Coupe Devilles – So Long, Goodbye, It’s Over

The Volcanoes – Storm Warning

Volcanos – Make Your Move

The Temptones – Say These Words of Love

The Tiffanys – Happiest Girl in the World

Broadway Express – Didn’t We Make It

Three Strangers – Find My Baby (Pt.1)

Kenny Gamble & the Romeos – Ain’t It Baby (Inst)

Brokington Ensemble – How I Got Over (Pt.1)

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:55

Is it me? I'm right on show.

SPEAKER_07 1:09

Is it me or is it her? Tell me what you one do you prefer? I love you. You know I do. I'm gonna ask you one more time. Are you hurt or are you mine? Is it me? Is it her? Is it me? Is it her? Is it me? Is it her? What man do you prefer? Do you want to rather than me? Eating don't happen gonna be. You don't even know my faith knows Which way your love will go? I'm a better old woman than she. If you don't believe it, come try me. I love you a bit old. You'll never forget. I won't do anything of my believing. You'll regret all the things I've said are true. But the choice is up to you. Is it me? Is it her? Is it me? Is it her? Is it me? Is it her? Oh it's one minute. Do you prefer? Oh God and open it, isn't it of her? Oh which one bed, is it gonna be? Oh God and open it, is it her or me? Is it her? Or is it me? Oh which one baby is it gonna be? Is it her of me? I wanna know baby about how it's gonna be. Is it her or me? Is it my baby? Is it her of me? Is it my baby? Boys think they can treat girls anyway, and we should have nothing to say.

SPEAKER_06 4:50

You heard us and push us aside, but we still have our pride.

SPEAKER_07 4:58

So remember when you break the heart in two, somebody, someday who break us to me. Just like I do, just like girls will do anything to make a boy stink, and no duels are too much, are too much to paint. We're devoted and so true when boys have an extra girl or two. So boys girl, you go out, do get back and return and know. Just like the boys do that, really, just like the boys do that too. The girls are trying to take the bird Just like the Bolives, just like the ball wants to go on the I don't love you no more.

SPEAKER_08 7:29

I could be more true, make me put my heart in two weeks. I don't like the gate to make it no, no, no, no. Oh yeah, I can't remember that you're looking at the boy, double boy, double boy, found a boy, double toy. I don't need you around, look, to let me down and only want it on the rebound, oh boy, oh, oh, oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 8:14

But now, now I see what double what I don't need to all round.

SPEAKER_08 9:14

You step it down and all I wanna, now I go back to really, really, really, really, got to go.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

Yeah, number one, number, number one, five, so number toy. Uh, from 1968, that was at Tiffany's with Loverboy. You're listening to Philly Solar, yours really Al Randall on the Al Randall show. Next up, something from Teddy and the Finger Poppers. It's called Soul Groove Part One, 1971. Little Label Record Label of Funky Instrumental.

SPEAKER_07 11:21

Come on now. All right, then we'll fight and do you now, huh? Are you ready? Here we go, baby. I gotta soul. I gotta sound true, so I gotta do and make you wanna move, and make you wanna catch your feet.

SPEAKER_03 11:52

Hey, everybody, come on and feet. Gonna sweep you off your feet. Listen to the drummer.

SPEAKER_07 12:03

Listen to the guitar beat. It's all that room. I got a room. Yeah. Come on now. Alright, are we together? Yeah. Alright, are we rooming now?

SPEAKER_03 12:32

Alright, pat your hands, drop your hands now. Oh no, don't don't like that, dude. Oh one, two, three. Alright, come on now.

SPEAKER_07 12:41

Alright, everybody together now. Oh yeah. Alright, and I have some fun. You say you need to say it. You think you got some more? But I will show you some limits. I want you to I see the gleam in your eye.

SPEAKER_04 13:56

It's a water.

SPEAKER_07 14:06

All of the love that you need is given me.

SPEAKER_04 14:26

Oh yeah, today's day must just show me. Now that you have my heart, be like me, don't have my heart.

SPEAKER_07 14:58

All the love that you need, give you all about it, you can be so bad. And this is all in for you, baby, it's cherry. Explosion, is the what you bought, cherry ball, baby, jalama, slow this baby, deep down in my soul, jelly, slowly, baby, deep soul, baby. If you don't come back, end up being holding down there for the pieces of my heart will be spread over town. Like it's old, let's drop my point down. The sound of this profusion was helpful.

SPEAKER_06 19:00

And I can fight feeling, but I'm just not this ball.

SPEAKER_07 19:06

Come on, people, cheap out and passion. And to all the sweet, sweet big. I give you a baby. Do you want to make me bad?

SPEAKER_08 20:03

If you go to the baby, what do you want to do? I wanna know. I wanna know. I gave you all my love and a bag.

SPEAKER_07 20:39

All I get is a baby. What do you want a bird? I want to know. I want to know.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

I just heard a double shot from Honey and the Bees Gold from 1970 Gold Honey Article record label. First you heard the dynamite exploding. You just heard why do you heard the one who loves you? Next up clean relations with cleaning up here in 1972 on Phil LA of soul record label, a rare roof with tight harmonies and early Philly production fingerprints all over it.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

Did it ever occur to you that I have a speaker in my office?

SPEAKER_07 22:46

Get right seriously, get rich. You wanna stay clean up, clean it up, you'll not feel a straight clean up till it caused that last meeting that we'll come in again. One thing everywhere, you wanna tell us, you wanna take the home, you laugh on the stay for the home, you'll laugh the problem, you wanna stay for this, we can laugh the problem, you wanna stay for the time in the hand, because I'm gonna turn the beach in the holy holy dust, I wanna stay on it, only that's good, I want to stay on it, only that's good, I've got it, yeah.

unknown 24:43

Do you have it?

SPEAKER_10 24:54

The Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost, the whole holy T days and the turntables on fire.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Al Randolph Shifting Gears, man, the year 1969. I got the ambassadors with I dig you, baby, on the Article record label. This is a silky Philly Harmony episode. These guys are part of the same scene and birth of the Delphine. And then we're gonna hear from DD Rodin Seminar. What do you want?

SPEAKER_03 26:19

Some new chick he needs, though it doesn't usually last too long.

SPEAKER_07 26:30

Little girl, your love is so strong I have to say I think you baby.

SPEAKER_03 26:51

I just bite You're that special kind of girl that makes a man feel like he rules the world. You add that special something to my day Lord knows you make it easy to say I take you, baby baby.

SPEAKER_07 27:26

Whoa, I really love you I just got you, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby the truth now.

SPEAKER_03 27:48

You are my inspiration, and I think you're a conversation, the way you smile, boy, that's out of sight, and everything you do, go you know who you know who know it's all right, baby, oh baby Oh, I know you, I love you, I love you, I love you, baby.

SPEAKER_07 28:31

I believe oh, you can't get a lot of people. Oh my god, your face take the food I usually want to get out of the food I can tell you show you, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my god, you're the skin take on your bone, you have a bowl, I can go to do what you wanna do, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't take it Do what you wanna do now you want me, one thing, but now you just stop saying So I do run Do you go up with me? What do I do? What do I do? What you wanna do? What do I do? What you wanna do? By the way, my name is Smarty Pay. I could win a man with just one plan, and I'll win a man. That is good, that is good. Do I make a man? Make up make that he's a blame. Wake up, make that he's a blame. They call me Smarty Pen.

SPEAKER_08 31:28

Looking for a man, I took just one way, I'm a smarty pen. They call me Smarty Pen. Looking for a man, I took just one way, I'm this Marty Pen.

SPEAKER_07 31:43

From the day I laid my eyes on that. I knew then I had to win this man. So I got high, so I paid back to my mind. And I came back something, really blowing back. Really blowing on They called me Smarty Fred, Smarty Queen, all romance, just one plan. Look like the joke's only there's the long Now I'm about to be able to be called it, oh man, just one way. Oh, yeah, just money, they don't have to be just coming out, but just one day smart, smarty, pay, smart, pay, all me, on the fall, just one hand, smart, yeah, smarty, pay, all the friends. Just one that was the first choice with Smarty Pants from 1973.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

Is it a Philly solo hour with Al Randall on the Al Randall show? Plenty of good music. Excuse me, still headed your way. Like Matt Turner Rebellion with Ruby Lee in 1972 on a Philly Groove record.

SPEAKER_03 34:47

I was born one of twelve in a house too old to stand. I met Ruby Lee. Out of me, she made a man. Ruby was my first one before her was mine. Now that she's gone, that can never be another one. Tell me why did you have to leave me? I never thought I'd find a love to freeze me.

SPEAKER_07 35:13

Stop this misery. Come on, go back to me, do me, do that. Got my best of the honey. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 35:39

Two years I've been away, and I'll fall off late.

SPEAKER_07 35:46

I'm going through the sand. I asked all my friends that I knew where we went. But oh, the house was up for it.

SPEAKER_05 35:57

Tell me why did you have to leave me? I never thought I'd find a love to sleep.

SPEAKER_03 36:32

Tell me why that you have to leave me. I never thought I found a love to flee.

SPEAKER_07 36:40

Stop this man too. I trust me, just love you.

SPEAKER_05 38:38

I thought that part of yours was true.

SPEAKER_07 38:44

Now teaching, teaching us, but this time I'm gonna leave it. So love the world meet. And I know it would be better than the time it's up, so we just don't weak don't say the meat. Yo kiss it's dark, they had a chance. I'm gonna get the way you get your call your face.

SPEAKER_03 41:36

Oh, that we had to bother. Take this stamina up for you all my lip when you dump it on me.

SPEAKER_07 41:45

Baby, baby, baby, baby, that's the meat. What you say, made up and I can fade in you, all you heard a bang. Get the big up, get you now, we never change you. Oh yeah, my faith, just give my other chair, oh you love me, it's gonna be chilly jumping.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

So long goodbye, it's over in 1968, and it's one record label. We're moving on to the Philly Randall. Before Holland Oates at least old history right here on the Al Randall Show.

SPEAKER_03 44:05

Nineteen sixty-seven.

SPEAKER_07 44:33

I have a big master and black cow. In my home. In my donut. Please come home. Where you belong.

SPEAKER_09 47:06

Now listen, let's take out a brand new day. You really got to take this. Just wait until it's time to make your I get to work and you follow. I didn't do the things that you wanna do. And now just get things going to clap your hands to the big.

SPEAKER_04 49:50

All you got to do is say that you love me so much. Say that you feel to my touch. These sweet words could mean so much to me. All you got to do is say Word of Assurance gave me all I want to say. Can take the sadness away. There's no better way to express your devotion. But happiness you bring could make me feel like a king. All you got to do is say that you love me so much. Say say that you threw to my touch. These sweet words could mean so much to me.

SPEAKER_07 51:13

All you got to do is say it down it.

SPEAKER_04 51:45

All you got to do is say.

SPEAKER_01 55:44

Louder we saw, louder we felt, now that we knew.

SPEAKER_05 55:52

There were bridges involved to kept us from being together. No one wondered whatever we were being.

SPEAKER_07 57:25

Something we were dreaming to be on the love we had to make just the same. I knew we made it, baby.

unknown 58:09

It took so long to be, but I know we made it, baby.

SPEAKER_10 58:29

Oh we have to play just a winning Blaze in the hottest mixes on the planet. Yep, yep. You're rocking with the best. Enjoy. Al Randoy, Randall.

SPEAKER_07 59:32

Find my baby. Find my baby.

SPEAKER_09 59:45

Go out and find my honey.

SPEAKER_03 59:50

They just kept on jiving around and beating me for my money.

SPEAKER_09 59:57

And when I found out that they wouldn't do, I had to call somebody to my rescue. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I went and paid every mason. Just not a detail. And then I paid a change bound to get on her jail, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:24

I even paid a super mains to come to a decision.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:30

I told him to you to say my baby. Come on and find her that now.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:42

Now pay every mason and game is bone and super main deed and do. So I'm made on my mind.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:53

I have to find Finding somebody new.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:59

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:00

So I called on a Batman. And him I had a lot of hope.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:09

And in a right away, without a word. He jumped right on his rope. And in his backmoby, he's riding around.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:22

Go to every city and every little town. Come on and find her right now. Talking about the owner's change now. A super man, a bat man. I can come and find my baby.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:50

I guess I'ma have to go out there and find myself.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:58

You've been listening to the Philly Soul Hour with Al Randall on the Al Randall Show. You want to get a hold of me? You can do that via email. Once again, it's the Al Randall Show at gmail.com. One Al and L two Elton Randall, the Al Randall Show at Gmail.com. Appreciate all of you listening around the globe with your emails, your suggestions, your shout-outs, all that good stuff, man. Can't do it without you.