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Al Green – Let's Stay Together (3:13)

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“Let’s Stay Together” is a song by Al Green on his 1972 album of the same name. The Let’s Stay Together Songfacts reports that according to Rolling Stone magazine’s Top 500 songs, after producer Willie Mitchell gave Al Green a rough mix of a tune he and drummer Al Jackson had developed, Green wrote the lyrics in 5 minutes. However, Green didn’t want to record the song and for 2 days he argued with Willie Mitchell before finally agreeing to cut it.

It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks. It also topped Billboard’s R&B chart for nine weeks. The song later appeared on the soundtrack to Pulp Fiction. 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/B.E.F. production team after “Ball of Confusion” in 1982, and served as her comeback single in late 1983, charting at #6 in the UK (one place higher than Al Green’s original - and her third U.K. Top 10 single, the first being “River Deep, Mountain High” and second being “Nutbush City Limits”, (both with former husband Ike Turner) and also #26 on The Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the U.S. Dance Chart. The song became a turning point in Turner’s solo career and was later included on her multiplatinum selling album Private Dancer, released in the Spring of 1984.
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  • mizmash

    LET'S

    Thursday evening

  • YamesSaves

    Baby making music.

    17 days ago

  • BikerWriter

    another great Reverend Al track...so glad I went out and got the greatest hits cd!

    21 days ago

  • CHILDOTHE70

    this music take me back ,when my uncle albert was alive and my grand aunt had this juke box in her tavern, i used to select it in the juke box.

    22 days ago

  • spacecat2003

    Let us stay together ...... Please Honey

    23 days ago

  • oldiesfanjohn

    One of THE standards of the great dancin` songs

    last month

  • marthabbrown

    oh goodness, i remember singing this to my boyfriend when I was 14! I took it from my mums cd collection. A beautiful song though, regardless of the cringe memories..

    last month

  • SHOTGUNPLAYA

    Old School so new to the young ears...

    last month

  • BestBritJamesB

    Tune! Still fantastic in 2012.

    last month

  • Angel5th

    Or Obama LOL! Last.fm is crazy. Smh & LOL @mcflyyoubojo!

    last month

  • Angel5th

    Lol I feel it for those of you getting some woman singing!

    last month

  • far7east8boy

    AG ...

    March 2012

  • PurplePostRock

    Musical genius

    March 2012

  • BowieFreak

    love.

    March 2012

  • Tajalicious

    Al is the man!

    March 2012

  • kellykimxx

    What the H*ll ? This is a horrible cover of a great song!

    March 2012

  • Mermead

    This is not Al Green. It's some horrible cover by some random woman... Tf is rhis?

    March 2012

  • nurby12

    beautiful song

    March 2012

  • jpjmmm

    tag 'GOP'

    March 2012

  • lattmere

    nobody does it like Al.

    February 2012
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