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Greatest Hits - Sealed

AL GREEN Greatest Hits (UK/EU limited edition 10-track black vinyl LP, an always welcome Fat Possum Records reissue of his 1975 compilation album featuring the stone cold classics Let's Stay Together, You Ought To Be With Me and I'm Still In Love With You. Picture sleeve, factory sealed. Essential)
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$31.24, £24.99  
Product Availability In stock. Order now for shipping on Wednesday 1st May
Release Year 2022 - 2 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Fat Possum / Hi
Complete Stock List Go to Al Green
Product Catalogue No FPH1135-1
Music Genre Male Solo, Funk, Soul and r&b
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
Tracklisting & More Information

Al Green Greatest Hits, features the classics Let's Stay Together, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, Tired Of Being Alone and Love and Happiness amongst many other gems from his catalogue.

For years, Willie Mitchell told anyone who would listen that the one thing Hi Records needed was a young, charismatic male singer with the potential for stardom. In 1969, fate would intervene in the form of a destitute 22-year-old named Albert Greene.

Green - as he would later change the spelling - relocated to Michigan as a child and began singing gospel with his brothers and launched his career with an album for the tiny Hot Line Label in 1967, called Back Up Train. His ?rst single had been a small breakout, but Green had fallen on hard times since then. Stranded in Texas, he asked if he could sit in and earn a few dollars performing with Mitchell that night. "He started singing and I heard that voice and I said, "'Ah-ha! Look what I found here."

It would take a little more than the 18 months for Green to evolve into stardom. The ?rst two albums they recorded were minor masterpieces in their own way, offering inventive R&B interpretations of songs by the Beatles and Doors, among others. The latter LP produced a top 10 hit in the Green-penned Tired of Being Alone and a gritty reworking of the Temptations' Can't Get Next To You.

Released at the end of 1971, Let's Stay Together shot up the charts, becoming a No. 1 hit and the biggest pop song of the following year. The accompanying album would also land atop the R&B charts. The next ?ve years would yield arguably the greatest run in the annals of R&B. With Mitchell producing and helping co-write many of Green's hits (Call Me [Come Back Home], and I'm Still In Love With You), and guitarist Teenie Hodges collaborating on several others (Love and Happiness, Here I Am (Come and Take Me]), Hi would not only come to dominate, but also rede?ne, soul music in the early '70s.


Side One
1. Tired Of Being Alone 2:43
2. Call Me (Come Back Home) 3:04
3. I'm Still In Love With You 3:14
4. Here I Am (Come And Take Me) 4:15
5. Love And Happiness 5:04

Side Two
1. Let's Stay Together 3:18
2. I Can't Get Next To You 3:53
3. You Ought To Be With Me 3:20
4. Look At What You Done For Me 3:06
5. Let's Get Married 3:23

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Recording Artist Al Green
Product Title Greatest Hits - Sealed
Product Information Al Green Greatest Hits - Sealed UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Artists Related To Willie Mitchell
Product Barcode 767981113517
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