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Dexter Wansel

R&B/Soul

The next Dexter Wansel concert is scheduled for Saturday, June 7, 2025 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, United States. See all 1 upcoming concerts
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Top Songs By Dexter Wansel

Listen to The Sweetest Pain by Dexter Wansel, see lyrics, music video & more!
The Sweetest PainDexter Wansel
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Theme from the PlanetsDexter Wansel
Listen to Life on Mars by Dexter Wansel, see lyrics, music video & more!
Life on MarsDexter Wansel
Listen to New Beginning by Dexter Wansel & H. Smith, see lyrics, music video & more!
New BeginningDexter Wansel & H. Smith
Listen to I'll Never Forget (My Favorite Disco) by Dexter Wansel & The Jones Girls, see lyrics, music video & more!
I'll Never Forget (My Favorite Disco)Dexter Wansel & The Jones Girls
Listen to One Million Miles from the Ground by Dexter Wansel, see lyrics, music video & more!
One Million Miles from the GroundDexter Wansel
Listen to You Can Be What You Wanna Be by Dexter Wansel, see lyrics, music video & more!
You Can Be What You Wanna BeDexter Wansel
Listen to Together Once Again by Dexter Wansel, see lyrics, music video & more!
Together Once AgainDexter Wansel
Listen to Nights Over Egypt by Dexter Wansel, see lyrics, music video & more!
Nights Over EgyptDexter Wansel
Listen to A Prophet Named K.G. by Dexter Wansel, see lyrics, music video & more!
A Prophet Named K.G.Dexter Wansel

Upcoming Concerts for Dexter Wansel

  • Jun
    07
    Jun 07, 2025
    Merriweather Post Pavilion
    Columbia

More albums from Dexter Wansel

Listen to The Story of the Flight Crew to Mars by Dexter Wansel
ALBUMThe Story of the Flight Crew to MarsDexter Wansel
Listen to Time Is Slipping Away by Dexter Wansel
ALBUMTime Is Slipping AwayDexter Wansel
Listen to Voyager by Dexter Wansel
ALBUMVoyagerDexter Wansel
Listen to What the World Is Coming To by Dexter Wansel
ALBUMWhat the World Is Coming ToDexter Wansel
Listen to Life on Mars by Dexter Wansel
ALBUMLife on MarsDexter Wansel
Listen to Life on Mars (OPOLOPO Remix) by Dexter Wansel & Opolopo
ALBUMLife on Mars (OPOLOPO Remix)Dexter Wansel & Opolopo

Dexter Wansel's Popular Music Videos

Watch As One (feat. Terry Dexter) [Vocal] music video by Dexter Wansel
As One (feat. Terry Dexter) [Vocal]
Dexter Wansel
Watch This is My Story (feat. Damon Williams) [Vocal] music video by Dexter Wansel
This is My Story (feat. Damon Williams) [Vocal]
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About Dexter Wansel

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Hometown
Philadelphia, PA, United States
Born
August 22, 1950
Genre
R&B/Soul
Keyboardist/arranger/producer/recording artist Dexter Wansel can be heard throughout the catalog of Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records. His skills can be heard on non-PIR sides like Jermaine Jackson's "Where Are You Now" from his gold LP Let's Get Serious and "Tonight" from Junior's Acquired Taste LP. His frequent songwriting partners were Cynthia Biggs, Bunny Sigler, and T. Life. A synth pioneer, Wansel's first LP arranging assignment was several tracks on Carl Carlton's 1975 LP, I Wanna Be With You, produced by Bunny Sigler. A Biggs/Wansel song, "The Sweetest Pain," a duet between Wansel and Jean Carn, originally a 1979 single from Wansel's Time Is Slipping Away LP, was a popular radio-aired LP from Loose Ends' Zagora LP. Two of Carn's LPs, When I Find You Love (entirely produced by Wansel) and Sweet and Wonderful, and Jean Carn and Happy to Be With You were issued on a two-album single CD by U.K. label Westside Records in early 1999. When Wansel was 12 years old, he got the job of a gofer for the Uptown Theater in Philadelphia, going to get sandwiches and clothes out of the cleaners for the various acts that performed at the venue like Stevie Wonder and Patti Labelle. Many years later, Wansel would co-write a number one R&B hit for Labelle. In 1975, Wansel met Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff when he was a member of a band called Yellow Sunshine, which also boasted guitarist Roland Chambers who would later become a part of MFSB, the house band for Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International Records. Becoming a part of the staff creative collective, Wansel began arranging, playing keyboards, and writing songs for the label's acts including the O'Jays, Teddy Pendergrass, and the Intruders, among others. When Patti Labelle signed with PIR, she recorded Wansel's "Shoot Him on Sight," a song Wansel intended for Jackson Browne, on her 1981 album The Spirit's in It. A song Wansel co-wrote with Kenneth Gamble and Cynthia Biggs, the lovely unrequited love ballad "If Only You Knew," held the number one R&B spot for four weeks in early 1984. It was on her I'm in Love Again LP, which went gold, hitting number four R&B. A partial list of Wansel-associated sides would include Jean Carn's popular radio-aired LP tracks "I'm in Love Once Again," "You Are All I Need" (music by Instant Funk), "Where Did You Ever Go," "Free Love," and the dance classic "Give It Up"; Shirley Jones' "Last Night I Needed Somebody" and "She Knew About Me"; The Jacksons' "Keep on Dancin'," "Living Together," "Do What You Wanna Do," and "Jump for Joy"; The Stylistics' "Hurry Up This Way Again,"; keyboardist Patrice Rushen covered "Hurry Up This Way Again"; The O'Jays' dreamy ballad "I Really Need You Now"; Phyllis Hyman's radio-aired track "Living All Alone"; The Jones Girls' "We're a Melody", the exotic "Nights Over Egypt," "Love Don't Ever Say Goodbye," and "Why You Wanna Do That to Me"; Archie Bell and the Drells' "Old People"; and Evelyn "Champagne" King's "Till I Come Off the Road" and the radio-aired LP track ballad "The Show Is Over." Wansel's own charting LPs were Life on Mars from summer 1976 (includes two tracks with Instant Funk, "Life on Mars" and "You Can Be What You Wanna Be"), What the World Is Coming To, Voyager (with its great space-age oriented graphics) from spring 1978, and Time Is Slipping Away from 1979. Several tracks from his LPs were radio-aired LP tracks (the lushly orchestrated "Theme From the Planets," the spacy, funky "Disco Lights") and some songs -- "Together Once Again," "One Million Miles From the Ground," and "Holdin' On" -- are still in singers' repertoire today. "Holdin' On" was a radio-aired LP track from actor Lawrence Hilton Jacobs' self-titled album produced by Lamont Dozier. "Global Warming" from the 1991 PIR/Zoo/BMG CD Universe Featuring Dexter Wansel received some airplay on smooth jazz radio stations. During the '90s, Wansel continued to work with the reactivated Philadelphia International Records and occasionally toured. Dexter Wansel-related releases are Grover Washington, Jr. Ultimate Collection, Heaven & Earth-That's Love, Best of MFSB: Love Is the Message, and Best of the Intruders. ~ Ed Hogan

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Dexter Wansel has also released music as a member of Yellow Sunshine MFSB.