Half a Love is the eighth album by American soul group The Chi-Lites, produced and largely written by lead singer Eugene Record. The album was released in 1975 on the Brunswick label.
| Half a Love | ||||
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| Released | July 1975 | |||
| Genre | R&B, soul | |||
| Length | 38:21 | |||
| Label | Brunswick | |||
| Producer | Eugene Record | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
History
editHalf a Love was the group's final album for Brunswick, which was in serious financial trouble by 1975. Half a Love contains only six new tracks, supplemented by four tracks from earlier Chi-Lites albums. Brunswick's problems meant that the album received minimal promotion in the US, where it could only reach #41 on the R&B chart. The only single release "It's Time for Love" likewise stalled in the lower reaches of both the pop and R&B charts, but did become a top 5 hit in the UK.
After the release of Half a Love, The Chi-Lites released three further non-album singles for Brunswick before leaving the company in 1976. Their final Brunswick release "You Don't Have to Go" passed by largely unnoticed in the US, but was a major 1976 summer hit in the UK where it became jointly the group's highest-charting single, matching the #3 position reached by "Have You Seen Her" over four years earlier. The 1999 Edsel Records reissue of Half a Love includes the final three singles as bonus tracks; they can also be found on the same company's 2004 UK-issue compilation The Complete The Chi-Lites on Brunswick Records: Volume 2.
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Half-a-Love" | Teddy Randazzo, Victoria Pike, Iran Koster | 2:48 |
| 2. | "Here I Am" | Eugene Record, Chris Allen | 3:45 |
| 3. | "I Never Had It So Good (And Felt So Bad)" | Eugene Record, Stan McKenney | 5:06 |
| 4. | "Living in the Footsteps of Another Man" | Samuel Garner, James Smith | 3:01 |
| 5. | "When Temptation Comes" | Eugene Record | 4:20 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6. | "It's Time for Love" | Eugene Record | 5:05 |
| 7. | "Take a Trip to the Islands" | Eugene Record | 3:20 |
| 8. | "Go Away Dream" | Eugene Record, Stan McKinney | 3:23 |
| 9. | "I'm Not a Gambler" | Eugene Record | 3:55 |
| 10. | "Ain't Too Much of Nothin'" | Eugene Record | 3:05 |
- Tracks 3 & 8 originally released on Chi-Lites (1973)
- Tracks 4 & 10 originally released on A Lonely Man (1972)
Charts
edit| Chart (1975) | Peak [2] |
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| U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs | 41 |
- Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |
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| US [2] |
US R&B [2] | ||
| 1975 | "It's Time for Love" | 94 | 27 |
| "Here I Am" | — | 87 | |
References
edit- ^ Hamilton, Andrew. Half a Love review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ a b c "US Charts > The Chi-Lites". Allmusic. Retrieved 2013-03-31.