Fayette Pinkney Dies

When I was in high school in the mid-'70s, The Three Degrees' "When Will I See You Again" was the ultimate make-out song. It was probably the first slow-dance tune played at every dance I attended; I know it was at my prom.

This morning I learned that Fayette Pinkney, an original member of the Philadelphia group, died over the weekend at age 61. In a statement printed in a Philadelphia Inquirer obituary, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff said Pinkney and the Three Degrees "were our Philly sound version of Motown's Supremes — but bigger and stronger and melodic."

I'm not about to argue with that.

RIP.