Philadelphia soul

Philadelphia(or Philly)soul is soul music that's complete with sweeping strings,seductive horns and lush arrangements.As a result, it sounds much smoother than the funky/gritty Southern and deep soul and it has slicker production, but the singing still sounds as soulful as any other style of soul music that came before it.All of those features are in the producers' medium.Famous Philly soul songwriters like Thom Bell,Linda Creed,Gene Mcfadden and John Whitehead worked with Philly artists like the Delfonics and the Spinners.Philly soul was popular throughout the 1970s and it set the stage for the studio constructions of future styles of soul music, which would be the dance-stylish disco and urban contemporary.