{"id":17992,"date":"2012-11-12T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17992"},"modified":"2012-11-12T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:15:26","slug":"philly-sound-rb-singer-major-harris-dies-at-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17992","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Philly Sound\u2019 R&amp;B Singer Major Harris, Dies At 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, VA \u2014 <strong>Major Harris<\/strong>, a former member of the \u201cPhiladelphia sound\u201d soul group<strong>\u00a0The Delfonics<\/strong> and singer of the 1975 hit <em>\u201cLove Won\u2019t Let Me Wait,\u201d<\/em> has died.<\/p>\n<p>His sister,\u00a0<strong>Catherine Thomas,<\/strong> said the 65-year-old passed away Friday at a Richmond hospital from congestive heart and lung failure.<\/p>\n<p>The Richmond native made the rounds with several music groups in the 1960s, including T<strong>he Charmers<\/strong>, <strong>Frankie Lymon\u2019s Teenager<\/strong>s and <strong>Nat Turner\u2019s Rebellion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He then joined <strong>The Delfonics<\/strong> in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>He left the group in 1974 and recorded a string on R&amp;B singles, including <em>\u201cLove Won\u2019t Let Me Wait,\u201d<\/em> which peaked at No. 5 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas said her brother last sang at a reunion show with T<strong>he Delfonics<\/strong> last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, VA \u2014 Major Harris, a former member of the \u201cPhiladelphia sound\u201d soul group\u00a0The Delfonics and singer of the 1975 hit \u201cLove Won\u2019t Let Me Wait,\u201d has died. His sister,\u00a0Catherine Thomas, said the 65-year-old passed away Friday at a Richmond hospital from congestive heart and lung failure. The Richmond native made the rounds with several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}