I Miss You (album)

For the Girl's Day EP, see I Miss You (EP).

I Miss You (later reissued as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) is the debut album by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, released on Philadelphia International in August 25, 1972. Produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff, the album was recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia.^[6]

I Miss You
Studio album by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Released	August 25, 1972
Recorded	1971–1972
Studio	Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genre	R&B
Length	36:43
Label	Philadelphia International
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]
Christgau's Record Guide	B[2]
Mojo	(favorable)[3]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide	[4]
Pitchfork	8.0/10[5]

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,^[7] Norman Harris and Thom Bell.

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

Track listing

Side one

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

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

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	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
• Vincent Montana Jr. – vibraphone
• Don Renaldo and his Strings – strings
• Sam Reed and his Horns – horns

Charts

Chart performance for I Miss You

Chart (1972)	Peak position
US Billboard Top LPs[8]	53
US Billboard Top Soul LPs[8]	4

Chart performance of singles from I Miss You

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US [8]	US R&B [8]	UK [9]
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 (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: M". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 7, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
3. Brown, Geoff. "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes review". Mojo. Archived from the original on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
4. The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 329.
5. Deusner, Stephen M. (June 2, 2021). "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: I Miss You Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
6. Cogan, Jim; Clark, William (2003). Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios. San Francisco, United States: Chronicle Books. pp. 151–163. ISBN 0-8118-3394-1.
7. Chris Rizik, "R.I.P. Legendary soul music producer Bobby Martin", Soul Tracks, September 2013.
8. "US Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-04-21.
9. "UK Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2013-04-21.

External links

• I Miss You at Discogs (list of releases)