During the final mixing of the track, Kenny Gamble impulsively reached over to the echo button and added echo to Jackson's opening riffs. Tarsia decided to run Jackson's bassline through a phaser, giving it a swishing sound and later mixed in echo. Sigma Sound Studios owner/engineer Joe Tarsia noticed that Jackson had a wah-wah pedal attached to his Fender Precision Bass. One day during fall 1973, producer/keyboardist Leon Huff was leading the members of the MFSB rhythm section and Jackson through a rehearsal.

The song's title comes from a well-known Bible verse, 1 Timothy 6:10: 'For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.' (This translation is from the King James Version of the Bible.) The song was also used as the opening theme song for NBC’s The Apprentice.Īnthony Jackson played bass guitar on the song.

Though the album version of the song was over seven minutes long, it received substantial radio airplay. 9 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart in spring 1974. The single peaked at number three on the U.S. Produced by Gamble and Huff for Philadelphia International Records, 'For the Love of Money' was issued as a single in late 1973 (see 1973 in music), with 'People Keep Tellin' Me' as its B-side. ' For the Love of Money' is a soul, funk song that was written and composed by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Anthony Jackson it was recorded by Philadelphia soul group The O'Jays for the album Ship Ahoy.

'For the Love of Money' by the O'Jays on YouTube 'Christmas Ain't Christmas New Year's Ain't New Year's Without The One You Love' Levert was posthumously featured again on former groupmates Keith Sweat's 'Knew It All Along' and Johnny Gill from the singer's Til the Morning album, which was released two days after the fifth anniversary of Levert's death.Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia: October 3, 1973 Levert's last collaborations included Jim Brickman on the song 'My Angel', for Brickman's 2006 album entitled Escape and on the song 'Real S***' from rapper Styles P's album, Time Is Money. Levert performed a duet with Teena Marie on the latter's 2004 album La Doña. In 1999, Levert sang the chorus on the Chris Rock spoken-word comedy piece, 'No Sex (In the Champagne Room)'. The trio released the album Levert-Sweat-Gill the same year, selling over two million copies it was followed by LSG2 in 2003. In 1997, Levert teamed up again with fellow singers Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill, to form the supergroup, LSG. who was participated in the group and joining with Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill as well. During the release ofGroove On, Levert appeared in the group Black Men United for the hit single 'U Will Know' for the film Jason's Lyric, the movie's soundtrack. In the early 1990s, he also helped launch the careers of three Cleveland-area ensembles: The Rude Boys, Men at Large and 1 of the Girls. Levert wrote and produced songs for other artists such as Barry White, Stephanie Mills, Anita Baker, Eugene Wilde, Teddy Pendergrass, James Ingram, Freddie Jackson, Chuckii Booker, The Winans, Troop and The O'Jays.

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