The silky song sends a serious message: “Wake up everybody, no more sleeping in bed. No more backward thinking, time for thinking ahead. The world has changed so very much from what it used to be.

Joe Tarsia, now retired, is shown standing at the mixing board in Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios in 2003. Sigma Sound, the source of the echoing, orchestral "Sound of Philadelphia" that topped the ...

Engineers of the ‘Philly Sound’ Go Behind the Scenes on Creating one of America’s Unique Sounds The Music Industry program at Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design ...

Nat Turner Rebellion was an up-and-coming band in the golden age of Philadelphia soul music. They opened for the chart-topping Delfonics. They had a hit-making agent, signed with a renowned record ...

The Jacksons weren’t in the mood for spaghetti. After a seven-year stint at Motown Records, the Jackson 5 went to Philadelphia to record two albums at Sigma Sound Studios. They were staying at a hotel ...

Fans spell out "BOWIE" with their bodies outside Sigma Sound Studios on 12th Street in 1974 while David Bowie was recording songs for the album "Young Americans." (Dagmar) The second annual Philly ...

PHILADELPHIA — What’s the most significant Philadelphia music landmark that needs to be saved? Last month, Preserve Pennsylvania announced that the John Coltrane house in Strawberry Mansion is under ...

Joe Tarsia, a legend of Philly music who made his home at Willow Valley Communities in Lancaster County in recent years, has died. The news was confirmed by longtime friend and fellow record producer ...

His work as an engineer at Sigma Sound Studios left a sonic stamp on R&B hits by the O’Jays, the Delfonics, the Stylistics and many others. By Bill Friskics-Warren Joe Tarsia, the recording engineer ...