Let's Stay Together (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Let's Stay Together


Caption =
Artist = Al Green
from Album = Let's Stay Together
A-side =
B-side = "Tomorrow's Dream"
Released = 1971
Format = CD single
Digital download
Vinyl
Cassette
Recorded = 1971
Genre = Pop, Rock, R&B
Length = 3:16 4:50 (full version)
Label = Hi Records
Hi-2202
Writer = Al Green, Willie Mitchell
Producer = Al Green, Willie Mitchell
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single =
This single =
Next single =
Misc = Infobox Single
Name = Let's Stay Together


Artist = Tina Turner
from Album = Private Dancer
B-side = "I Wrote A Letter"
Released = 1983
Format = 7", 12" single
Recorded = 1983
Genre = Pop/R&B
Length = 3:33 (7"), 5:14
Label = Capitol
Writer = Al Green
Producer = Martyn Ware
Certification =
Last single = "Ball of Confusion" (1982)
This single = "Let's Stay Together" (1983)
Next single = "Help!" (1984)

"Let's Stay Together" is a song by Al Green on his 1972 album of the same name. 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. [ [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6595905/algreen?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple3&rnd=1102299930402&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.857 "Rolling Stone"] ]

Tina Turner version

"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.

Versions and mixes (Tina Turner version)
* 7" Edit - 3:38
* Extended 12" Mix/"Private Dancer" album version - 5:14

Other cover versions

"Let's Stay Together" has also been covered by Michael Bolton, Jimmy Smith, Michelle Williams, Boyz II Men, Brian Kennedy,Issac Hayes, as well as by At Last on the first season of "America's Got Talent", who performed it a cappella. It has also been covered by soul singer Lemar. An interpretation of the song is evident in the song "Earthquake", on the album "Tha Carter" by rapper Lil Wayne. An instrumental version very close to the Al Green original was recorded by The Memphis Horns. The company Wavegroup did a cover of the song for the game .

Chart performance (Tina Turner - 1983)

Infobox Single
Name = Let's Stay Together


Artist = Michelle Williams
from Album = Roll Bounce Soundtrack, Exclusive Bonus CD Sampler
Released = March 4, 2005 (U.S.)
Format = Digital download, CD single
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Pop, R&B
Length = 3:23
Label = Music World/Columbia
Writer = Al Green, Willie Mitchell
Producer = Jazze Pha
Certification =
Last single = "Do You Know"
(2004)
This single = "Let's Stay Together"
(2005)
Next single = "We Break the Dawn"
(2008)

Chart performance (Michelle Williams - 2005)

Boyz II Men- 2004

Infobox Single
Name = Let's Stay Together
Artist = Boyz II Men
from Album = Throwback Vol.1
Released =2004
Format =
Recorded = 2004
Genre = R&B
Length = 3:55
Label = Koch Records
Writer = Al Green , Willie Mitchell

ee also

*Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1972 (USA)
*R&B number-one hits of 1972 (USA)
*Number-one dance hits of 1984 (USA)

References