I Miss You (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes album)

I Miss You
Studio album by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Released	August 1972
Recorded	Sigma Sound Studios (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre	R&B
Length	36:43
Label	Philadelphia International KZ 31648
Producer	Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes chronology
I Miss You (1972) Black & Blue (1973)
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Reissue title and cover.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	A- [2]
Mojo	[3]

I Miss You (later reissued as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) is the debut album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in August 1972. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff.

The album title was changed from I Miss You to Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and given a new cover after the success of the single "If You Don't Know Me by Now". The group's roster for this album is Lloyd Parks, Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin, Lawrence Brown and Bernie Wilson. The album was arranged by Bobby Martin,^[4] Norman Harris and Thom Bell.

The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2010 by Big Break Records.

The single "I Miss You" was featured in the film Dead Presidents.

Track listing

All tracks written by Gamble and Huff, except where noted. 

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Miss You"	8:31
2.	"Ebony Woman" (Morris Bailey)	3:37
3.	"Yesterday I Had the Blues"	7:25

Side two
No.	Title	Length
4.	"If You Don't Know Me by Now"	3:27
5.	"Be for Real" (Leon Huff, Cary Gilbert, Kenneth Gamble)	7:31
6.	"Let Me into Your World" (Kenneth Gamble, Norman Harris, Allan Felder)	2:40
7.	"Let It Be You"	3:32

2010 remastered reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
8.	"I Miss You" (Part I - Single Version)	3:20
9.	"Yesterday I Had the Blues" (Single Version)	3:54
10.	"Be for Real" (Single Version)	3:24
11.	"If You Don't Know Me by Now" (Live in San Francisco, 1973)	4:08

Personnel

The Blue Notes

• Harold Melvin,
• Teddy Pendergrass,
• Bernard Wilson,
• Lawrence Brown,
• Lloyd Parks – vocals

Other personnel

• Leon Huff – piano
• Leonard Pakula – organ
• Ronnie Baker – bass
• Earl Young – drums
• Norman Harris, Roland Chambers, Bobby Eli – guitar
• Larry Washington – congas, bongos
• Vince Montana – vibraphone
• Don Renaldo and his Strings – strings
• Sam Reed and his Horns – horns

Charts

Chart (1972)	Peak [5]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	53
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	4

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US [5]	US R&B [5]	UK [6]
1972	"I Miss You (Part 1)"	58	7	—
	"If You Don't Know Me by Now"	3	1	9
1973	"Yesterday I Had the Blues"	63	12	—

References

1. Hamilton, Andrew. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
2. Christgau, Robert. "I Miss You review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
3. Brown, Geoff. "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes review". Mojo. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
4. Chris Rizik, "R.I.P. Legendary soul music producer Bobby Martin", Soul Tracks, September 2013.
5. "US Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". Allmusic. Retrieved 2013-04-21.
6. "UK Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2013-04-21.

External links

• I Miss You at Discogs (list of releases)