Don't Leave Me This Way (Official Audio) 

Anyone listening to this masterpiece in 2024?

Entering 2024 with this vibe. All the best everyone 😊

...It was 1976... This is as wonderful today as it was in 1976!...❤

Raise your hand if you're listening to this song in 2023!

Teddy Pendergrass was a gift from a very kind and generous God.

Teddy Pendergrass one of the best male soul voices ever

Okay. Thelma Houston tore up the dance floor with this song, but Teddy burned down the HOUSE!!! Both equally great versions.

My goodness Teddy Pendergrass’ voice is incredible!

The moment I hear Teddy's voice, I break out in goosebumps....he is truly missed.

Use to play the 8track tape in my car back in the 70s, of Harold Mervin, I’m 71 now and when ever I listen to the music of the 70s I’m back there again, faces come flooding back, and good times.❤😊

The best version EVER

A magical combination.... Gamble & Huff, Teddy, Harold, orchestra, back ups, all created the best there is.

🙏R.I.P T.P & Harold Melvin🙏

Teddys version is unbelievable! What a powerhouse!!!!

This is what you call music...a total classic! Love it!

Kenney Gamble said with raw talent like pendergrass voice, you got to feed it raw meat. And the hits came flowing out, hit after hits. That's the Philadelphia sound.

Teddy represents the total vintage Philadelphia music scene. My goodness what a talent. This man makes me proud to be from Philly.

P.I.-(Philadelphia), Stax-(Memphis), Chess-(Chicago) and of course Motown-(Detroit), shaped the childhood of my life. They all should all be museums dedicated to the history of shaping black America in the late 1960s to the 80s.

Fabulous voice the original. The emotion is THERE.

Still Listening 2024 🔥❤🔥❤🔥 5 - 15 - 24

Neither Teddy or these guys are in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Ridiculous flat out criminal

Never had a clue there was more versions before The Communards did this in the 80s! Thanks What we do in the Shadows for bringing me here

Beyond gorgeous! Teddy Pendergrass has a magnificent voice !

The soul put in this song cannot be denied.

Gamble & Huff and the "Philly Sound." Young folks, listen and learn something.

Wow! This is a masterpiece, the intro speaks volume. When he enters, his passion and intent is felt from the first syllable. Thank you Teddy P.

One of the best songs I've ever heard in my life absolutely love it.

My mum used to play this in the 70s when I was a kid and she used to get sent by it. Now I'm the one getting sent to places I ain't been before. This song has everything. The best intro I ever heard, bitter sweet, oh and his voice!! It literally makes me smile all the way through with a lump in my throat at the same time. And the cool disco section you can have a right dance too Jesus above, this song is everything in the world to a music lover and I am ever grateful I can pull this out the bag so to speak when ever the mood takes me. Love, looove, love it!!! I just listened to the long 6 minute version and the comments were turned off so come in over here and listened to it for the 5th time tonight. Thelma Huston's is nice but this is more than sensational!

This was a very powerful song back in the days ❤Teddy and his Blue 🔵 Notes where honestly on top of the world hit after hit after hit they were literally the biggest band way way back in the good old days ..todays music just isn't as appealing 😢as it was back then

I danced in76 at 26 it's 24, Im 74 now and STILL jamming to it!

Brings me to tears...so happy i was an adult woman and could appreciate all the emotion and every song he sings has special meaning for me... God Bless Teddy, no other can compare...

You thought you had soul? This is one of the greatest songs ever. What a groove. Love Thelma but this is up there with the very best. Wonderful.

Never be another Teddy !!!!

THE BEST VERSION AND THE BEST VOICE

Rest in Peace, Teddy. Your voice was a one-off. God bless you and those you loved. It is sad that we will never hear you live again.

This IS THE ORIGINAL!!!

just to say-this is NOT a 'versio'n' this is the original, the best- don't let, others feed off the original genius, HAROLD MELVIN and the great blue notes

I remember buying Thelma Houston's version and my sister bought this version, today i think this version wins because of the incredible teddy pendergrass , a magical era so many brilliant bands and singers down to earth people who worked so hard

Makes me so nostalgic about a long bygone era............... I used to listen to it all the time growing up in Lagos Nigeria, back in the 1970s !!!!!!

Teddy Pendergrass, the Blue Notes and MFSB add Gamble & Huff and classic is an understatement….. This is art , the music is the canvas and the voices are the paint , and we have a masterpiece…..🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶

Big Brother Teddy Pendergrass what a voice, what a man and what an inspiration.

It has always been my favourite song of all time. Gave me tingles as a teenager in the 70s and still does now I am in my 60s. Love TP's voice so much ❤❤❤ but the arrangement is perfection 👌

Starting at about 3:50 whoever the cat is, on those keyboards… has got his act TOGETHER!!! Wow. I wish that they had doubled the last three minutes of this.

They don’t make music like this anymore. Singers with soul and an inner quality that you’re born with. What an era !!

Sung with a raw desire every man has known.🔥🔥🔥

Teddy sings like he means every single word he's saying

Until a year ago I never knew there was an original version of this because the only version I ever heard was by Thelma Houston but I really love this version. Teddy Pendergrass's voice is just phenomenal and the the song is just so smooth and so mellow... Plus the lyrics resonate, at least in me. ❤️

I've seen lists of the greatest singers ever, and Teddy was not even on the list!? The hell?! Top five, for sure!

im so glad i grew up back then!! What a time to be alive!! The 70s and 80s ruled!!! I miss those days! Everyone got along and just danced no bullshit like 2020! Listen to this Amazing singer gives me goose bumps still!! Thelmas version is Great too! I prefer his though

What a great backing band you had every instrument to perfection

I love this great classic song by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass Don't Leave Me This Way from great album Wake Up Everybody the best album of all time in 1975 Thelma Houston covered the song in 1977!!! The Philadelphia Sound is the best!!!! Thanks so much for posting this video!!!!! I love it!!!! I love the 70s!!!! Can you dig it!!!! R.I.P. Teddy Pendergrass you are now in musical heaven!!!!

I hear this and I get such a poignant burst of nostalgia...makes me cry. The superb base player and beautiful melody....just takes me back to when I was aged 20... life was a mix; of dressing to the ' new romantic' nines for all day discos - with no worries in my world - and the promise of a fantastic adventure still ahead of me. I never had a broken heart or gave one, still had all my loved ones round me and I was the happiest I have ever been in my life. Wish I could go back and live every precious moment of those years again. We who were having the time of our young lives in the eighties were surely the luckiest of all.

Lord reminds me so much of my family functions what a era we lived in happiness and joy at its finest miss my family and what’s life without good music and love . Peace to all

Sounds like God himself is singing this! Have mercy!

2024 here, and this is so good.

The moment I hear Teddy's voice, I break out in goosebumps....he is truly missed. The most underrated band ever The best version EVER

I love my man...Teddy, you sing from the heart God gave you...

Wow, what a song what a voice!!!!

No one...NO ONE has ever been able to cover this with the same FIRE as it was originally sang by Teddy Pendergrast.

Man oh man what an all round classic. Big Brother Teddy Pendergrass with a powerful voice and he made the Bluenotes so soulfully classical. RIP Brother Teddy and Brother Harold Melvin.

Harold Melvin surely had soul in his heart... a song from a better time

The king has masterfully spoken this is great !!!

This broken man with empty hands . Baby please don't leave this way. WOW.

This is my favorite bass line of all time.

I cannot decide who's my favourite Teddy , Curtis or Marvin. All so beautiful. 😫😫

brought tears to my eyes reminising about the past/70's

Folks, it doesn’t get any better than this.......grab your headphones and crank this baaaad mfer up........we miss you Teddy......😀

My God. Incredible.

For me there has been three great versions of this record and this tops them. So soulful

The People who Thump's down this GREAT CLASSIC DISO SONG Need their DAMN HEADS EXAMINED PERIOD!!!!!

Teddy got it going on.

WHY HAVE I NOT HEARD THIS VERSION BEFORE AGH IT'S BEAUTIFUL I don't even know how I'm gonna get through the rest of the day now holy-

This Song is going straight through my Heart. I love it❤️

AIN'T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING. SENSATIONAL AWESOME BEAUTIFUL PHENOMENAL EXTRAORDINARY AMAZING WONDERFUL ❤!

The best version EVER The most underrated band ever The most underrated band ever

The most underrated band ever

THEODORE PENDERGASS aka the voice These kids today will never understand this amazing music. Gamble & Huff and the "Philly Sound." Young folks, listen and learn something.

This version is just awesome. If your head doesn't bop when this song is playing you really have no soul at all.

best version of the song, hands down

Communards 6 million views. Harold and the boys on 130,000. Almost as heartbreaking as Teddy's vocals.

Back in 70s my late Brother Tony was a Nightclub D.J.He would always say Teddy P would make you cry..had so much Soul ❤️

The original and the best

The only version I listen to, great singer, great voice

Teddys ad libs is legendary on this song 🎵

As I recall, back in the day every radio station in Los Angeles (except for the country & western stations) played this song. It was universally loved.

Only discovered this version, just amazing.

You are Right On Man!!! The soul in this song is not to be matched.

What a magical voice from a magical man ❤️

Oh my god! 3:54 to 4:40. I'm speechless. I have tears in my eyes. "Ahhh Uhahhh UhhaaAhh HAA! I need your love babah! Yah. See, ha. Yo love! Your love! Well. Your love is so IM-PORTANT! IMPORTANT TO ME!! "

My favorite version on this song ❤

Just discovered this magnificent song and such a beautiful voice. I can't stop listening to it

this is most excellent, well done,

Gosh the strings are beautiful on this.

Big Brother Teddy Pendergrass is the man RIP

Teddy Pendergrass one of the best male soul voices ever These kids today will never understand this amazing music. Gamble & Huff and the "Philly Sound." Young folks, listen and learn something.

Best version

On everything that is holy. The intro, the build up and the finish. Mr Melvin, Teddy and the blue notes. God this is ecstasy.

Grandioso..... Sublime.....

Old School ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I would genuinely like to thank "What We Do In The Shadows" for getting yet another great song stuck in my head!!!