Al Green-Let's Stay Together (1972)


 

Artist: Al Green

Title: Let's Stay Together

Label: Hi

Format: LP

Cat #: SHL 32072

Year of Release: 1972

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1972 Capitol Record Club

Listed Condition VG/G+

Sell Date: 5/9/24

Sell Price:$10.01

Discogs Last Sold: 9/1/23 VG/VG $27.99

Low: $10.01 VG/G+

Median: $23.99

Average: $24.09

High: $40.00 NM/NM

Current low price: $13.45 G+/G

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4

Have/Want: 98/581

Where Sold: Saline, MI

Time it took to sell: 9 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester used Al Bums early 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

I've had the album 40+ years and outside of the title track I've finally got myself "right" with it.  For whatever reason, I didn't know the songs on the record start to finish so I gave it a good 4 listens before I even started in on writing this. 

The time I bought Let's Stay Together, Al Green albums on Hi were fairly scarce in general despite his massive success.  This album peaked at number 8 on Billboard and was a Soul number one in 1972.  Despite this, the only single was the #1 from late 1971, "Let's Stay Together."  You hear it everywhere nowadays and the "shirtless" Greatest Hits album can be found on many a discerning jukebox all over the place.  But that wasn't always so.  The CD reissue era, the appearance on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack and the return to secular performance after becoming a Minister and becoming a Gospel artist in the late 70's brought Al Green’s music back into mainstream saturation.  You can still go to Memphis and see his Full Tabernacle Choir service on Sundays.

I actually bore witness to a later-day Green secular performance in 1999 at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark.  Of course, he was excellent and most of the show was either hits or Gospel.  He did his version of the Bee Gees "How Do You Mend A Broken Heart" and of course the title track from this.  The only other song from here that seems to turn up in his recent live sets is "It Ain't No Fun To Me" which closes the album.

1972 was an extremely fertile year for Green with I'm Still In Love With You taking over later in '72 and housing "Look What You've Done To Me" which was the next hit in March as well as "Love and Happiness'.  Call Me came in 1973.  For this less hit-laden 4th album, the ones I like most are "So You're Leaving" and "I've Never Found A Girl."  

Both sides of the same side of the coin.



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