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Live! Coast to Coast was the first live album and fourth overall album by R&B crooner

Crooner

Crooner is an American epithet given to male singers of pop standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, either backed by a full orchestra, a big band or by a piano. Originally it was an ironic term denoting an emphatically sentimental, often emotional singing style made possible by the use...

Teddy Pendergrass

Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade...

. It was recorded in Philadelphia in 1978 and Los Angeles in 1979. It did rather well on the Billboard album charts

Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...

, reaching #33 Pop and #5 R&B.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff; except where indicated

Disc 1

"Life Is a Song Worth Singing" (Thom Bell
Thom Bell
Thomas Randolph "Thom" Bell is an American songwriter and producer, best known as one of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. He moved to Philadelphia as a child.-Biography:...

, Linda Creed
Linda Creed
Linda Creed also known by her married name Linda Epstein, was an American singer-songwriter and lyricist who teamed up with songwriter-producer Thom Bell to produce some of the most successful Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s.-Career:Born in Philadelphia in 1949, Creed was raised in the...

)
"Only You"
Medley: "If You Don't Know Me by Now/The Love I Lost/Bad Luck/Wake Up Everybody" (Victor Carstarphen, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Gene McFadden
Gene McFadden
Gene McFadden was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with John Whitehead.-Biography:McFadden met John Whitehead as a teenager...

, John Whitehead
John Whitehead (singer)
John Whitehead was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with Gene McFadden.McFadden and Whitehead wrote many hits for...

)
"When Somebody Loves You Back"
"Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose"

Disc 2

"L.A. Rap"
"Come Go with Me"
"Close the Door"
"Turn Off the Lights"
"Do Me"
Live Interview with Mimi Brown of WDAS-FM, Philadelphia
"It's You I Love"
Live Interview
"Shout and Scream"
Live Interview Concludes

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