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1975 studio album by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

To Be True

Released

February 1975

Recorded

Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Length

38:46

Black & Blue
(1973)

To Be True
(1975)

Wake Up Everybody
(1975)

To Be True is an album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in February 1975. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff.

The album features the hit singles "Bad Luck", "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" with Sharon Paige, and "Where Are All My Friends".

The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2016 by Big Break Records.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Where Are All My Friends"	Gene McFadden, John Whitehead, Victor Carstarphen	3:22
2.	"To Be True"	Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff	4:42
3.	"Pretty Flower"	McFadden, Whitehead, Carstarphen	5:42
4.	"Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" (Female vocal by Sharon Paige)	Gamble, Huff	3:45

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Nobody Could Take Your Place"	Gamble, Huff	4:22
6.	"Somewhere Down the Line"	Gamble, Huff	4:55
7.	"Bad Luck"	McFadden, Whitehead, Carstarphen	6:29
8.	"All Because of a Woman"	McFadden, Whitehead, Huff	5:29

2016 remastered reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
9.	"Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" (Single Version)	3:26
10.	"Bad Luck" (Tom Moulton Mix)	7:56

Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, Lawrence Brown, Jerry Cummings – vocals
Sharon Paige – female vocalist on "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon"
MFSB – music
Carla Benson, Evette Benton, Barbara Ingram - background vocals

Chart (1975)	Peak
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	26
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	1

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	US	US R&B	US Dance
1974	"Where Are All My Friends"	80	8	11
1975	"Bad Luck (Part 1)"	15	4	1
1975	"Hope That We Can Be Together Soon"	42	1	—

Cyndi Lauper used an interpolation of "Where Are All My Friends" in the 2008 song "Set Your Heart" from her album Bring Ya to the Brink.

v t e Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Harold Melvin Bernard Williams Roosevelt Brodie Jesse Gillis, Jr. Franklin Peaker John Atkins Teddy Pendergrass Lawrence Brown Bernard Wilson Lloyd Parks Jerry Cummings Sharon Paige David Ebo Dwight Johnson William Spratelly Gil Saunders
Studio albums	I Miss You Black & Blue To Be True Wake Up Everybody Reaching for the World
Compilation albums	Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!
Singles	"If You Don't Know Me by Now" "The Love I Lost" "Bad Luck" "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" "Wake Up Everybody" "Don't Leave Me This Way"
Related articles	Discography Philadelphia International Records