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Black Music Month - 2011

Wake Up Everybody

By NorthStar News Staff

POSTED: June 03, 2011, 12:00 am

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Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, with Teddy Pendergrass on lead vocals, singng their consciousness raising hit "Wake Up Everybody" in a peformance on "Soul Train."





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