On Being Black: How Gamble & Huff Turned a Dream into Destiny

Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff have come a long way since a chance meeting in the elevator of Philadelphia’s Schubert Building, which housed several production and publishing companies back in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Huff was working at a production company on the second floor; Gamble on the sixth.
“I knew Gamble was connected with music, because he had a guitar in his hands,” recalls Huff. “And I played piano. We ended up meeting a few days later at my home in the C