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Like Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass was among the greatest male soul singers of the 20th century. We first noticed Teddy's talent while we were rehearsing Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. One day in the early 1970s, Teddy, the group's drummer, was asked to sing, and this great, powerful voice came out of this tall, thin guy. He had one of the most flexible voices we had ever heard...
...tried to avoid focusing on myself throughout this column, choosing to write instead about music news, although I suppose one can never really escape talking about one’s life or biases. “You can’t hide from yourself,” as Teddy Pendergrass once sang. So I suppose it’s alright to write just one column that’s personal. Hey boys hey girls superstar DJs here...
DIED. HAROLD MELVIN, 57, leader of the Blue Notes, the gospel-tinted rhythm-and-blues ensemble best known for its onetime lead singer Teddy Pendergrass and its achingly mournful 1972 hit If You Don't Know Me by Now; probably of a stroke; in Philadelphia...
Directing OSHA's current policies is Assistant Labor Secretary John Pendergrass, 62, a former 3M industrial hygienist. Pendergrass argues that OSHA's emphasis on encouraging companies to upgrade their record keeping has fostered self-regulation and a new spirit of cooperation between Government and business. "Playing policeman wasn't working," Pendergrass says. "We are nonconfrontational. We can't be the safety director at every plant." Since 1980, he asserts, 1.5 million safety hazards have been eradicated in America's 7 million workplaces. Indeed, Labor Department statistics suggest that workplace safety has improved substantially since OSHA was created...
...safety practices has grown complex. Meanwhile, though, OSHA's staff of inspectors has shrunk to 1,125, from 1,336 in 1980, and the agency has been notoriously slow to set standards. OSHA has issued only 18 health and 23 safety rules in its 16-year history, which even Pendergrass calls "embarrassing...