Let’s Stay Together – Al Green (1971)

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Additional information about this, Al Green vinyl art.

Al Green – The Artist

Albert Leornes Greene (born 1946), often known as The Reverend Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including “Take Me to the River”, “Tired of Being Alone”, “I’m Still in Love with You”, “Love and Happiness”, and his signature song, “Let’s Stay Together”. Inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, Green was referred to on the museum’s site as being “one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music”. He has also been referred to as “The Last of the Great Soul Singers”.

Let’s Stay Together – The Song

Let’s Stay Together is a song by American singer Al Green from his 1972 album of the same name. It was produced and recorded by Willie Mitchell, and mixed by Mitchell and Terry Manning. Released as a single in 1971, “Let’s Stay Together” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks and also topped Billboard’s R&B chart for nine weeks. Billboard ranked it as the number 11 song of 1972. It was ranked the 60th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. “Let’s Stay Together” was later covered by Tina Turner, her second collaboration with the British Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation production team after “Ball of Confusion” in 1982, and served as her comeback single in late 1983.

The Happy Couple- The Shape

Modelled into the silhouette of a couple holding hands.

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