According to the book A House on Fire: the rise and fall of Philadelphia Soul, by John A. Jackson, the MFSB name means " Mother, Father, Sister, Brother ", because according to Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, despite the diversity at Philadelphia International Records, all were connected musically.

More than 30 resident studio musicians, known together as MFSB " Mother Father Sister Brother ", were based at this studio and backed up most of these recordings.

" TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )" is a 1974 hit recording by MFSB ( Mother, Father, Sister, Brother ) featuring vocals by The Three Degrees.

MFSB released " TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )", a 1974 hit recording featuring vocals by The Three Degrees, which became the first disco song to reach number one, after " Love's Theme ", on the Billboard Hot 100 ; it was written as the theme song for Soul Train.

## how the song was released: Cyndi Grecco, Pratt & McClain, Joey Scarbury, David Naughton, and MFSB, for instance, were all technically one-hit wonders, but their hits were solely popularized by their use as themes to television shows ( Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, The Greatest American Hero, Makin ' It, and Soul Train respectively ), although Naughton's hit did also appear on the soundtrack to the film, Meatballs, from the same year the song was released ( 1979 ).

The first song they recorded there was with the studio band MFSB, entitled " TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )" which was the theme song for Soul Train.

Assembled by record producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, MFSB was the house band for their Philadelphia International Records label and originated the signature smooth " Philly sound " sound that dominated the early 1970s for the artists who recorded at the Sigma Sound Studios, including the O ' Jays, the Spinners, the Bluenotes, The Delfonics, Blue Magic, The Intruders, Three Degrees, Jerry Butler, and Teddy Pendergrass.

It was the 1972 release of their first album, MFSB, that put them on the map.

MFSB recorded a cover of The Nite-Liters's 1971 instrumental " K-Jee ", which gained some popularity when it was featured in a key scene in the film Saturday Night Fever ( 1977 ).

MFSB was a group of soul music studio musicians based in Philadelphia at the Sigma Sound Studios ; they later went on to become a name-brand instrumental group, and their best known hit was TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia ), better known as the theme from Soul Train.

The label's major hits included: " TSOP ( The Sound Of Philadelphia )" by MFSB, featuring The Three Degrees, 1974 ( which was later adopted as the theme of the TV dance-music show " Soul Train "); " Ain't No Stoppin ' Us Now " by McFadden & Whitehead ( writers and producers with the label ), 1979 ; " Backstabbers " and " Love Train " by The O ' Jays, 1972 / 3 ; " If You Don't Know Me By Now " and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, 1972 / 3 ; " Me And Mrs Jones " by Billy Paul, 1972 ; " When Will I See You Again " by The Three Degrees, 1974 ; and " You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine " by Lou Rawls, 1976.

He was a founding member of MFSB and one-third of the production trio of Baker-Harris-Young.

" Family Affair " has been heavily covered, with versions by Tyrone Davis, The Brothers Johnson, MFSB, Iggy Pop, Bunny Wailer, and many more.

* 1973-1975: " TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )", composed by Gamble and Huff and recorded by Philadelphia soul studio group MFSB with vocals by the Three Degrees.

The group's harmonies were supported by the MFSB studio house band.

They struck chart gold in 1976 with " Kiss and Say Goodbye ," written by Blue Lovett and arranged / co-produced with the group by the Philadelphia-based record producer Bobby Martin, a former member of the MFSB band of session musicians.

Some original Salsoul / Philly / TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )/ MFSB ( Gamble and Huff ) session musicians have appeared on ' Soul Recession ', including Earl Young ( drummer ), Bobby Eli, Dennis Harris, T G Conway, Jimmy Williams & Rikki Hicks.

The personnel of MFSB and the Salsoul orchestra overlapped substantially, and both groups were recorded at Philadelphia's famous Sigma Sound Studios.

* Summertime ( MFSB album ), the fifth album to be released by Philadelphia International Records houseband MFSB

** MFSB for " The Sound of Philadelphia "

** MFSB for " The Sound of Philadelphia "

In 1972, MFSB began recording as a named act for the Philadelphia International label.

* The song " TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )", is the theme song for the American television music program Soul Train, and a 1974 hit single by the band MFSB

* TSOP Records, a subsidiary of Philadelphia International Records, named after the hit MFSB song

The name comes from the 1974 hit single, " TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )", by MFSB and The Three Degrees.

* MFSB ( Philadelphia International Records )

The Salsoul Orchestra consisted of the most of the original members of Philadelphia International's MFSB, who had moved on to Salsoul as the result of a disagreement with producers Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff over finances.

( Tender Loving Care )" by the band MFSB.

MFSB albums and singles were released for the rest of the decade.

Another popular MFSB number, " Love Is The Message ", has been a favorite of dance / disco DJs since its release ; countless remixes, both official and unofficial, exist of the song.

The Temptations ' version of " Papa Was a Rollin ' Stone " followed in the extended-length " cinematic soul " tradition of the work of Isaac Hayes and others, and future songs like Donna Summer's fourteen-minute " Love to Love You Baby " and the instrumentals of MFSB expanded upon the concept in the mid-1970s.

Both were co-written by MFSB guitarist Bobby Eli, who played on the sessions.

Among some of his other success in mixing songs are The Three Degrees ' " Dirty Ol ' Man ", MFSB featuring The Three Degrees " Love Is The Message ", B. T.

His widely-imitated signature style is best heard on the record Love is the Message by MFSB.

`` we've got Father and Mother and each other '' said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott's Little Women ; ;

: begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, according to the Manhood ;

He argues against the idea that Christians should reject their family for an ascetic life, which stems from Luke, contending that Jesus would not have contradicted the precept to " Honour thy Father and thy Mother " ( Exodus ), one of the Ten Commandments.

stood for " Mother Father Sister Brother "; to the tough black areas where they came from it was understood to stand for " Mother Fuckin Son of a Bitch ".

Many list family members and the relationship of the deceased to them ( for example, " Father / Mother / Son / Daughter of ").

The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”

Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, mythological, or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings ( such as a God, angels, the jinn, and sky deities like King or Queen of Heaven, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, Son of Heaven, heavenly saints or venerated ancestors ) originate, are enthroned or inhabit.

The Father of Greatness, in the first of three " creations " ( or " calls "), calls to the Mother of Life, who sends her son Original Man ( in Aramaic ), to battle with the attacking powers of Darkness, which include the Demon of Greed.

:“... as to Servants, the Metaphorical and Synecdochial usage of the words Father and Mother, heretofore observed, implys it ; for tho ’ the Husband be the Head of the Wife, yet she is an Head of the Family .”.

All men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother, and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity.

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They all had to go away from London suddenly because of Air Raids, and because Father, who was in the Army, had gone off to the War and Mother was doing some kind of war work.

Russia named this particular ordnance the " Father of All Bombs " in response to the United States developed " Massive Ordnance Air Blast " ( MOAB ) bomb whose backronym is the " Mother of All Bombs ", and which previously held the accolade of the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in history.

" Mother Tongue and Father Script: The relationship of Sei Shonagon and Murasaki Shikibu ".

The most powerful non-nuclear bomb is Russian " Father of All Bombs " ( officially Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power ( ATBIP )) followed by the United States Air Force's MOAB ( officially Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or more commonly known as the " Mother of All Bombs ").

** Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother in Māori mythology

At the end of Divine Services on Thursday, the dismissal begins with the words: " May Christ our True God, through the intercessions of his most-pure Mother, of the holy, glorious and all-laudable Apostles, of our Father among the saints Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, the Wonder-worker …"

In the first film, Morticia and Gomez discussed how Mother and Father Addams were killed by an angry mob, removing any possibility that Grandmama could be Gomez's and Fester's mother.

In the second episode of the 1992 series, Grandmama introduced herself with the line, " the name's Granny Frump ", while the following episode referenced Gomez's parents, Mother and Father Addams.

* Mother Father Uncle Aunt ( May 1998 )

* My Mother, My Father and Me ( 1963 )

At the beginning of the reign he vetoed the unprecedented title Mater Patriae (" Mother of the Fatherland ") that the Senate wanted to bestow upon her, in the same manner in which Augustus had been named Pater Patriae (" Father of the Fatherland ").

The Father and Mother by Boardman Robinson depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride.

However it was suggested that the reverence for the colors red and white can trace its origin to older common Austronesian mythology of Mother Earth and Father Sky ; both symbolize in colors red ( earth ) and white ( sky ).