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I Miss You (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes album)
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I Miss You
Studio album by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Released
August 1972
Recorded
Sigma Sound Studios
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre
R&B
Length
36:43
Label
Philadelphia International
KZ 31648
Producer
Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes chronology
I Miss You
(1972) Black & Blue
(1973)Black & Blue1973
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Reissue title and cover.
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau B [2]
Mojo (favorable) [3]
I Miss You (later reissued as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) is the debut album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in August 1972. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff.
The album title was changed from I Miss You to Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and given a new cover after the success of the single "If You Don't Know Me by Now". The group's roster for this album is Lloyd Parks, Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin, Lawrence Brown and Bernie Wilson. The album was arranged by Bobby Martin,[4] Norman Harris and Thom Bell.
The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2010 by Big Break Records.
The single "I Miss You" was featured in the film Dead Presidents.
Contents
1 Track listing
2 Personnel
2.1 The Blue Notes
2.2 Other personnel
3 Charts
4 References
5 External links
Track listing[edit]
All tracks written by Gamble and Huff, except where noted.
Side one
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1. "I Miss You" 8:31
2. "Ebony Woman" Morris Bailey 3:37
3. "Yesterday I Had the Blues" 7:25
Side two
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
4. "If You Don't Know Me by Now" 3:27
5. "Be for Real" Leon Huff, Cary Gilbert, Kenneth Gamble 7:31
6. "Let Me into Your World" Kenneth Gamble, Norman Harris, Allan Felder 2:40
7. "Let It Be You" 3:32
show2010 remastered reissue bonus tracks
No.
Title
Length
8. "I Miss You" (Part I - Single Version) 3:20
9. "Yesterday I Had the Blues" (Single Version) 3:54
10. "Be for Real" (Single Version) 3:24
11. "If You Don't Know Me by Now" (Live in San Francisco, 1973) 4:08
Personnel[edit]
The Blue Notes[edit]
Harold Melvin
Teddy Pendergrass
Bernard Wilson
Lawrence Brown
Lloyd Parks – vocals
Other personnel[edit]
Leon Huff – piano
Leonard Pakula – organ
Ronnie Baker – bass
Earl Young – drums
Norman Harris, Roland Chambers, Bobby Eli – guitar
Larry Washington – congas, bongos
Vince Montana – vibraphone
Don Renaldo and his Strings – strings
Sam Reed and his Horns – horns
Charts[edit]
Chart (1972)
Peak
[5]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs 53
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs 4
Singles
Year
Single
Peak chart positions
US
[5]
US
R&B
[5]
UK
[6]
1972 "I Miss You (Part 1)" 58 7 —
"If You Don't Know Me by Now" 3 1 9
1973 "Yesterday I Had the Blues" 63 12 —
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Hamilton, Andrew. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
Jump up ^ Christgau, Robert. "I Miss You review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
Jump up ^ Brown, Geoff. "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes review". Mojo. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
Jump up ^ Chris Rizik, "R.I.P. Legendary soul music producer Bobby Martin", Soul Tracks, September 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b c "US Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". Allmusic. Retrieved 2013-04-21.
Jump up ^ "UK Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2013-04-21.
External links[edit]
I Miss You at Discogs (list of releases)
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Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Harold Melvin
Bernard Williams
Roosevelt Brodie
Jesse Gillis, Jr.
Franklin Peaker
John Atkins
Teddy Pendergrass
Lawrence Brown
Bernard Wilson
Lloyd Parks
Jerry Cummings
Sharon Paige
David Ebo
Dwight Johnson
William Spratelly
Gil Saunders
Studio albums
I Miss You
Black & Blue
To Be True
Wake Up Everybody
Reaching for the World
Compilation albums
Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!
Singles
"If You Don't Know Me by Now"
"The Love I Lost"
"Bad Luck"
"Hope That We Can Be Together Soon"
"Wake Up Everybody"
"Don't Leave Me This Way"
Related articles
Discography
Philadelphia International Records
Book:Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
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