I Miss You (album)

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For the Girl's Day EP, see I Miss You (EP).
I Miss You
File:I Miss You Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes album.jpg
Studio album by
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
ReleasedAugust 25, 1972
Recorded1971–1972
StudioSigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
GenreR&B
Length36:43
LabelPhiladelphia International
ProducerKenneth Gamble & Leon Huff
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes chronology
I Miss You
(1972) 		Black & Blue
(1973)
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
File:Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes album.jpg
Reissue title and cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star empty.svg[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB[2]
Mojo(favorable)[3]
The New Rolling Stone Record GuideFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[4]
Pitchfork8.0/10[5]

I Miss You (later reissued as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) is the debut album by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, released on Philadelphia International in August 25, 1972. Produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff, the album was recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia.[6] 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,[7] Norman Harris and Thom Bell. The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2010 by Big Break Records.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Gamble and Huff, except where noted

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Miss You" 8:31
2."Ebony Woman"Morris Bailey3:37
3."Yesterday I Had the Blues" 7:25
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
4."If You Don't Know Me by Now" 3:27
5."Be for Real"Leon Huff, Cary Gilbert, Kenneth Gamble7:31
6."Let Me into Your World"Kenneth Gamble, Norman Harris, Allan Felder2:40
7."Let It Be You" 3:32
2010 remastered reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
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

The Blue Notes

Other personnel

Charts

Chart performance for I Miss You
Chart (1972) Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs[8] 53
US Billboard Top Soul LPs[8] 4
Chart performance of singles from I Miss You
Year Single Peak chart positions
US
[8] 		US R&B
[8] 		UK
[9]
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

  1. ↑ Hamilton, Andrew. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: M". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 7, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ↑ Brown, Geoff. "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes review". Mojo. Archived from the original on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
  4. ↑ The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 329.
  5. ↑ Deusner, Stephen M. (June 2, 2021). "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: I Miss You Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
  6. ↑ Cogan, Jim; Clark, William (2003). Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios. San Francisco, United States: Chronicle Books. pp. 151–163. ISBN 0-8118-3394-1.
  7. ↑ Chris Rizik, "R.I.P. Legendary soul music producer Bobby Martin", Soul Tracks, September 2013.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "US Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-04-21.
  9. ↑ "UK Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2013-04-21.

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