Item: The most impressive cut on the LP is 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?' Green's version is far superior to the Bee Gees' original, but the original is pure glop. The popularity of his romantic disappointment, however, has induced him to narrow his persona. Al Green Gets Next to You shows real emotional range-like Marvin Gaye, Green comes on both passive and active. Maybe it's just that I'm so tired of the title single, but this is disappointing. And closes out side two with some greasy hard funk like you just don't hear anymore. He also covers the Doors, the Temptations, Roosevelt Sykes, and the gospel-phase Johnnie Taylor. Green plays the boyish Sam Cooke supplicant-or maybe a smooth Otis Redding, or an assertive Smokey Robinson-with the startling is-that-a-synthesizer? high note that climaxes 'Tired of Being Alone' serving as a trademark. function, Hi of Memphis has turned into a pocket of naivete (or reaction) (or traditionalism) on the confused black pop scene. With Willie Mitchell performing the Booker T. But Green was better off making pop fashion conform to him. These attempts to conform to pop fashion are fairly fascinating in retrospect. Not always such a genius, Mitchell began remaking young Al Green in 1969 by having him cover the Beatles, the Box Tops, and, less bizarrely, gritty r&b crooner Little Willie John. The album built up around it after he became famous establishes that the regional hit in question was catchier than the rest of the generic r&b he and his Grand Rapids boys were laying down. 'There was just no logical reason for that particular tune to take off like it did,' Green has said of the title song, a 1967 one-shot that did the world the favor of letting a gifted young singer taste success. Love Ritual: Rare and Previously Unreleased 1968-1976 A.

Al green im still in love with you