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Charted: February 12, 1972

Rating: 4.527 (average of 9 ratings)

Genre: R&B > soul

Quotable: --

Album Tracks:

  1. Let’s Stay Together
  2. La-La for You
  3. So You’re Leaving
  4. What Is This Feeling?
  5. Old Time Lovin’
  6. I’ve Never Found a Girl Who Loves Me Like You Do
  7. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
  8. Judy
  9. It Ain’t No Fun to Me

Sales:

sales in U.S. only ½ million
sales in U.K. only - estimated --
sales in all of Europe as determined by IFPI – click here to go to their site. --
sales worldwide - estimated ½ million

Peak:

peak on U.S. Billboard album chart 8
peak on U.K. album chart --

Singles/Hit Songs:

  • Let’s Stay Together (12/4/71) #1 US, #7 UK, #1 RB, #36 AC. Sales: ½ million. Airplay: 2 million

Awards:

Rated one of the top 1000 albums of all time by Dave’s Music Database. Click to learn more.

Let’s Stay Together
Al Green
Review:
“Prior to this album, Al Green never had a number one song. The title track, Let’s Stay Together, achieved that status and held it for nine consecutive weeks [on the R&B chart]. Green’s ingenuity produced one of the all-time classics, which has the bounce of a dance cut and the passion of a ballad. The dynamic soul singer’s whispers, animated cries, and riffing enhance his already stirring delivery” (Lytle).

“This album was sold on the strength of the title track as there were no other selections to grace the Billboard charts. However, this album includes the timeless gem How Can You Mend a Broken Heart [originally a hit by the Bee Gees] and lesser-known beauties like the exulting Judy, the cookin’ testimonial I Never Found a Girl, and the soothing blues effort It Ain’t No Fun to Me. The Arkansas native and his creative partner Willie Mitchell season these selections with lucid rhythm arrangements complemented by the faint strums of a guitar and brawn, unchiding horns” (Lytle).

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Last updated April 6, 2008.