| TP | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Teddy Pendergrass |
| Cover: | TP - Teddy Pendergrass.jpg |
| Released: | July 25, 1980 |
| Recorded: | 1979–1980 |
| Label: | Philadelphia International |
| Producer: | Ashford & Simpson, Dexter Wansel, Cecil Womack, John R. Faith, Jerry Cohen, Gene McFadden, John Whitehead |
| Prev Title: | Live! Coast to Coast |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | It's Time for Love |
| Next Year: | 1981 |
TP is the fourth album by American R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass. It reached No. 14 on the US pop albums chart and No. 3 on the US R&B albums chart. It spawned the top ten singles, "Can't We Try", which was also featured in the soundtrack to the film Roadie, and "Love T.K.O." TP is Pendergrass's only album while at Philadelphia International Records made without any input from label founders Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff.
The Globe and Mail deemed the album "disco Muzak at its most innocuous: lame, unoriginal, and curiously sexless."[1] The New York Times wrote that "the strongest cuts ... were all ballads that showed Mr. Pendergrass developing long narrative laments with unprecedented subtlety and emotional conviction."[2]
| Chart (1980) | Peak [3] |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top LPs | 14 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs | 3 |
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US R&B | US Dan | ||
| 1980 | "Can't We Try" | 52 | 3 | 52 |
| "Love T.K.O." | 44 | 2 | - | |