Be for Real: The P.I.R. Recordings (1972-1975)

Tracklist

• CD 1: I Miss You (1972) / Black & Blue (1973)
• 1
  I Miss You
  8:38
• 2
  Ebony Woman
  3:40
• 3
  Yesterday I Had the Blues
  7:33
• 4
  If You Don’t Know Me by Now
  3:25
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Be for Real
  7:25
• 6
  Let Me Into Your World
  2:39
• 7
  Let It Be You
  3:32
• 8
  Cabaret
  1:44
• 9
  The Love I Lost
  6:24
• 10
  It All Depends on You
  4:50
• 11
  Concentrate on Me
  3:12
• 12
  Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or take Your Love Back)
  3:28
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Is There a Place for Me
  6:59
• 14
  I’m Weak for You
  6:52
• 15
  I’m Coming Home Tomorrow
  6:13
• CD 2: To Be True (1975) / Wake Up Everybody (1975)
• 1
  Where Are All My Friends
  3:21
• 2
  To Be True
  4:42
• 3
  Pretty Flower
  5:42
• 4
  Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
  3:39
• 5
  Nobody Could Take Your Place
  4:22
• 6
  Somewhere Down the Line
  4:55
• 7
  Bad Luck
  6:25
• 8
  It’s All Because of a Woman
  5:28
• 9
  Wake Up Everybody
  7:33
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Keep on Lovin’ You
  3:41
• 11
  You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good
  5:18
• 12
  Don’t Leave Me This Way
  6:06
  3.5 ★
• 13
  Tell the World How I Feel About ’cha Baby
  5:54
• 14
  To Be Free to Be Who We Are
  5:08
  2.0 ★
• 15
  I’m Searching for a Love
  5:20
• CD 3: Various Bonus Tracks
• 1
  Everybody’s Talkin’
  3:51
• 2
  Bad Luck (Tom Moulton mix)
  7:58
• 3
  Don’t Leave Me This Way (Tom Moulton mix)
  11:02
• 4
  The Love I Lost (live)
  5:15
• 5
  If You Don’t Know Me by Now (live)
  4:09
• 6
  I Miss You (live)
  11:00

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Release credits

• Bobby Martin
  arranger [1.2-4, 1.7, 1.9, 1.11, 1.14-15, 2.1-11, 2.13, 3.2]
• Gamble & Huff
  producer [1.8-15, 2.1-8]
• Gene McFadden
  producer [2]
• Harold Melvin
  lead vocals [4]
• John Whitehead
  producer [2]
• Kenneth Gamble
  producer [2.9-15, 1.1-7]
• Lenny Pakula
  arranger [8]
• Leon Huff
  producer [1.1-7, 2.9-15]
• MFSB
  performer [1.1, 1.9, 2.4, 2.7, 2.9]
• Norman Harris
  arranger [1.5, 1.10, 1.12, 2.12, 2.15]
• Ron Baker
  arranger [14]
• Sharon Paige
  vocal [4]
• The Blue Notes
  background vocals [4]
• Thom Bell
  arranger [1, 6]
• Tom Moulton
  mix [2]
• Victor Carstarphen
  producer [2]
• Vincent Montana, Jr.
  arranger [13]
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Issues

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  Be for Real: The P.I.R. Recordings (1972-1975)

  3x CD
  23 August 2019