"Where Were You in '72?"Al Green - Let's Stay Together

You gotta love the "rev", as someone wrote on You Tube. This was another great song from 1972 that I loved to hear come up on the radio. Actually I'm fudging this a bit, because "Let's Stay Together" debuted on the pop charts in the USA in December of 1971 but went to Number One in February the following year.
Al Green grew up in Grand Rapids Michigan. His parents wouldn't allow anything but Gospel music into the home so he had to sneak out to a local record store to hear his favorites like Otis Redding and Ray Charles. He started in a group called "The Creations" in 1964, then went on his own in 1969. Within two years, he had his first million-seller. "Let's Stay Together" was the follow up and it was even bigger. The hits kept coming until the late seventies when the suicide of his girlfriend and a near-fatal fall from a stage led him back to spiritual matters. He gave up the regular music business and became an ordained reverend with his own church.

In the last few years, "The Doctor of Love" has reemerged with new songs. He still sounds great, which is why I include this 2005 version of his great song. It's got more horns than the '72 hit, more mature but still recaptures that beatific smoothness that made it such a deserved hit. Over to you, rev...