Wake Up Everybody was the last Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes album to feature Teddy Pendergrass before he left for a solo career, and it is Philly soul at its most socially conscious. The McFadden–Whitehead–Carstarphen title track is a call to action delivered with the weight of a sermon. The album also contains 'Don't Leave Me This Way,' which Thelma Houston would turn into a worldwide disco number one two years later.
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