Ben-Lee Music

Philadelphia, USA publishing company, owned by Frank Bendinelli and Leroy Lovett associated with Ben-Lee Publishing Please consider Ben-Lee In the 1960s, musician-producer-songwriters Frank Bendinelli and Leroy Lovett formed a production company B & L Production that generated tracks that were leased to other labels, as well as sides that were put out on their own small Philadelphia labels, like Benn-X and Sonata (6). The exact routes (whereby each side got placed where) are painstaking to trace nowadays; all the lay fan needs to know is that the Ben-Lee umbrella produced obscure Philadelphia soul throughout the decade. As was usual for small-label soul, the songs are often derivative of larger trends. It's less generic than the usual collection of items that were resuscitated by the Northern soul graveyard in Britain, however, due to the Philadelphia feel of its doo wop-influenced harmonies and peppy horn arrangements. Gamble & Huff fans will want to to know this since Leon Huff has a hand in several tracks as pianist and songwriter