We lost another soul great. There are obituaries for Teddy Pendergrass all over the media right now, and I'm no authority so I will refrain from trying to cut and paste his life story from other sources, but in tribute I'm going to put up my favorite electro funk tinged number from his 1983 Heaven Only Knows album on CBS:

.. and seeing as I'm putting up music from unsung major label modern soul heroes, here is an instrumental British offering from 1987: