HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES - BE FOR REAL (3CD Boxset) [CD]

The 1972 release of two consecutive ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ ballads – ‘I Miss You’ and ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’ – marked the start of a four-year association that yielded some of the most enduring recordings in contemporary soul music, in the process creating – with label founders Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff and a burgeoning coterie of talented songwriters, arrangers and musicians - a handful of timeless dance music classics including ‘The Love I Lost’, ‘Bad Luck’ and ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’. A Philadelphia-based group (The Charlemagnes) became ‘The Blue Notes’ after Harold Melvin joined them in the mid-50s and after a number of personnel changes, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes achieved their first US Top R&B hit in 1965 with ‘Get Out (And Cry)’. Mainstays of the popular lounge circuit, Melvin had hired Theodore Pendergrass as the new drummer for the group’s touring band in 1970 and by the time the quintet joined the fledgling roster at P.I.R., he had emerged as the lead singer; it was Teddy Pendergrass’ gospel-honed passion-filled vocals that were front-and-centre of the four gold-certified albums that formed the legacy of treasured recordings included in this glorious 36-track, 3-CD box set.

I MISS YOU

EBONY WOMAN

YESTERDAY I HAD THE BLUES

IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW

BE FOR REAL

LET ME INTO YOUR WORLD

LET IT BE YOU

CABARET

THE LOVE I LOST

IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOU

CONCENTRATE ON ME

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED (OR TAKE YOUR LOVE BACK)

IS THERE A PLACE FOR ME?

I'M WEAK FOR YOU

I'M COMING HOME TOMORROW

WHERE ARE ALL MY FRIENDS

TO BE TRUE

PRETTY FLOWER

HOPE THAT WE CAN BE TOGETHER SOON - Sharon Paige And Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes

NOBODY COULD TAKE YOUR PLACE

SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE

BAD LUCK

IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF A WOMAN

WAKE UP EVERYBODY

KEEP ON LOVIN' YOU

YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE ME FEEL SO GOOD - Featuring Sharon Paige

DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY

TELL THE WORLD HOW I FEEL ABOUT 'CHA BABY

TO BE FREE TO BE WHO WE ARE

I'M SEARCHING FOR A LOVE -Featuring Sharon Paige

EVERYBODY'S TALKIN'

BAD LUCK (TOM MOULTON MIX)

DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY (TOM MOULTON MIX)

THE LOVE I LOST (LIVE)

IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW (LIVE)

I MISS YOU (LIVE)

• Genre: Funk & Soul
• Product Type: Audio CD
• Barcode: 5013929088801
• Release Date: April 03, 2026

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