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.

* Sheila Ferguson as The Three Degrees

In addition to producing several hits with Donna Summer, Moroder also produced a number of electronic disco hits for The Three Degrees, two albums for Sparks, a handful of songs on Bonnie Tyler's album Bitterblue as well as her 1985 single " Here She Comes " and a score of songs for performers including David Bowie, Irene Cara, Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, Blondie, Japan, and France Joli.

* The Three Degrees

Also contributing to the labels success was its distribution of Philadelphia International Records, which produced additional hit records by acts such as The Three Degrees and McFadden and Whitehead.

* International ( The Three Degrees album ), 1975

* The Three Degrees

To emphasize the risk of diarrhoea and vomiting caused by food poisoning, the song " When Will I See You Again " by The Three Degrees is played in the background.

* " When Will I See You Again "-The Three Degrees

The first single released from the album was a remake of " Giving Up Giving In ", which had originally been a hit for The Three Degrees in 1978.

The first single " When Will I See You Again " featured the original singers of the song, The Three Degrees.

The young talented three, Brendon Batson, Laurie Cunningham and Cyrille Regis, made a huge impression and became known as the Three Degrees, in comparison to the vocal trio of the same name.

This was the first time an English team simultaneously fielded three black players, and Atkinson collectively referred to Cunningham, Batson and Regis as ' The Three Degrees ' after the legendary U. S. soul singing trio.

The Three Degrees are an American female vocal group, formed in 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Three Degrees were formed around 1963 in Philadelphia.

The Three Degrees released a number of singles, including " I'm Gonna Need You " and a cover version of " Maybe " in 1966.

Ferguson sang backup on all the group's Swan recordings as did the Three Degrees for her solo singles.

Their first album for the Philadelphia International label, simply titled The Three Degrees, spawned three hits: " Dirty Ol ' Man " ( which went gold in the Netherlands and Belgium ), " Year Of Decision " ( which made it to # 13 in the UK Singles Chart ), but it was the third single, " When Will I See You Again ", that propelled the trio into the mainstream.

The Three Degrees also recorded two live albums: one from Leicester in the UK, and the other from Tokyo in Japan, and released both in 1975.

The trio's second studio album for the Philadelphia label, The Three Degrees International, was marketed internationally under different titles and in various languages.

In 1976, the Three Degrees parted company with Gamble and Huff and moved to CBS Sony / Epic Records where they released the concept album, A Toast Of Love, purely for the Far East market, although a single of the title track was released internationally.

In 1978, The Three Degrees signed to Ariola Records in Europe and the US and began working with Giorgio Moroder, who had become famous as a disco producer following his work with Donna Summer.

Their own television special, The Three Degrees at The Royal Albert Hall ( aka An Evening with The Three Degrees ), was recorded in October 1979 in which the trio were backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Three days previously, we had steamed past barren Rennell Island in the distance.

Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;

A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.

Later it developed that the Soviets had a very different interpretation of democracy, which will be discussed later, and their judgment never told them that the Big Three should unite in establishing democratic conditions, as we understand them, within their zone of influence.

Three days had passed since Spencer's arrest and each day had brought new dangers, new fears.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

Three years afterwards, under Yusuf's son and successor, Ali ibn Yusuf, Sintra and Santarém were added, and Iberia was again invaded in 1119 and 1121, but the tide had turned, the French having assisted the Aragonese to recover Zaragoza.

Three years had now elapsed without any production coming from his chisel.

Between 1673 and 1681, the Emperor Kangxi suppressed an uprising of three generals in Southern China who had been denied hereditary rule to large fiefdoms granted by the previous emperor ; he also put down a Ming restorationist invasion from Taiwan, called the Revolt of the Three Feudatories.

Three magazines, all of them defunct, had been published by Chaosium to promote its products:

Three types of cavalry became common: light cavalry, whose riders, armed with javelins, could harass and skirmish ; heavy cavalry, whose troopers, using lances, had the ability to close with their opponents ; and finally those whose equipment allowed them to fight either on horseback or foot.

By 1405, de Pizan had completed her most successful literary works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Treasure of the City of Ladies, or The Book of the Three Virtues.

Three weeks after Earnhardt's death, Harvick scored his first career Cup win at Atlanta driving a car that had been prepared for Earnhardt.

Furthermore, frescoes and murals dealing with death had a long tradition and were widespread, e. g. the legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead: on a ride or hunt, three young gentlemen meet three cadavers ( sometimes described as their ancestors ) who warn them, Quod fuimus, estis ; quod sumus, vos eritis ( What we were, you are ; what we are, you will be ).

Three of twelve technologies on board had to work within a few minutes of separation from the carrier rocket for the mission to continue.

Moe Howard of the Three Stooges recalled in 1975 that Sullivan had a memory problem of sorts: " Ed was a very nice man, but for a showman, quite forgetful.

Three short lived secessionist attempts had their own emperors: the Gallic Empire, the Britannic Empire, and the Palmyrene Empire though the latter used rex more regularly.

Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with James II, and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on December 30, 1687 which established the Corporation of Madras.

The parliament had evolved from an earlier council of nobility and clergy, the colloquium, constituted around 1235, but perhaps in 1326 representatives of the burghs — the burgh commissioners — joined them to form the Three Estates.

Three years after the war, the 1948 Summer Olympics were held at the original Wembley Stadium, at a time when the city had barely recovered from the war.

Three were adopted without change: That labour should not be treated as a commodity ; that all workers had the right to a wage sufficient to live on ; and that women should receive equal pay for equal work.

Three previous trials of the defendants had been halted because of jury tampering, and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, cited cost and the additional burden on the jurors as reasons to proceed without a jury.