Charted:

May 19, 1973

Rating:

Genre:

R&B

Quotable:

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Album Tracks:

1. Call Me (Come Back Home)
2. Have You Been Making Out O.K.
3. Stand Up
4. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
5. Your Love Is Like the Morning Sun
6. Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
7. Funny How Time Slips Away
8. You Ought to Be with Me
9. Jesus Is Waiting

Sales (in millions):

0.5
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0.5

Peak:

10
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Singles/Hit Songs:

• You Oughta Be with Me (10/21/72) #3 US, #1 RB, gold single
• Call Me (Come Back Home) (2/17/73) #10 US, #2 RB, gold single
• Here I Am (Come and Take Me) (7/7/73) #10 US, #2 RB, gold single

Notes:

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Awards:

Review:

“Al Green was hands-down the dominant soul singer of the Seventies, and his run of albums, especially in the first half of the decade, was so consistently strong that it's hard to pick a favorite. I'm Still in Love with You has the back-to-back perfection of ‘Love and Happiness’ and ‘I'm Glad You're Mine.’ Let’s Stay Together has, well, ‘Let's Stay Together.” ^TL

“But top to bottom,” ^TL “the brilliant Call Me” ^JA is “the reinvention of Memphis soul” ^BL and “the one to beat.” ^TL On “his third classic set in just 18 months, the Top 10 Call Me marked Green’s creative and commercial peak” ^BL with “the most inventive and assured album of his career.” ^JA

“So silky and fluid as to sound almost effortless.” ^JA “His awesome voice soared, soothed and seduced” ^BL as they “revel[ed] in the lush strings and evocative horns of Willie Mitchell’s superbly intimate production, barely rising above an angelic whisper for the gossamer Have You Been Making Out O.K..” ^JA

“With barely perceptible changes in mood, Call Me covers remarkable ground, spanning from Stand Up – a call to arms delivered with characteristic understatement – to renditions of Hank Williams’ I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry and Willie Nelson's Funny How Time Slips Away, both of them exemplary fusions of country and soul” ^JA that “seal Green’s linking of Memphis and Nashville traditions” ^TL while making “country and soul bewitching bedfellows.” ^BL

“Equally compelling are the album’s three Top Ten hits – You Ought to Be with Me,” ^JA “the effortlessly sexy title song and the devastating Here I Am (Come and Take Me).” ^TL

“The closing song, Jesus is Waiting, turned out to be the bridge to Green’s future in the pulpit.” ^TL

Review Source(s):

• ^JA Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
• ^BL Blender Magazine’s 100 Greatest American Albums (10/08)
• ^TL Josh Tyrangiel and Alan Light, Time Magazine’s “All-TIME 100 Albums” (11/13/06)

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You Oughta Be with Me

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Call Me

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Here I Am (audio only)

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Last updated April 13, 2011.