Half a Love

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Half a Love

Studio album by The Chi-Lites

Released

July 1975

Genre

R&B, soul

Length

38:21

The Chi-Lites chronology

Toby
(1974)

Half a Love
(1975)

Happy Being Lonely
(1976)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Half a Love is the eighth album by American soul group The Chi-Lites, produced and largely written by lead singer Eugene Record. The album was released in 1975 on the Brunswick label.

History

Half a Love was the group's final album for Brunswick, which was in serious financial trouble by 1975. Half a Love contains only six new tracks, supplemented by four tracks from earlier Chi-Lites albums. Brunswick's problems meant that the album received minimal promotion in the US, where it could only reach #41 on the R&B chart. The only single release "It's Time for Love" likewise stalled in the lower reaches of both the pop and R&B charts, but did become a top 5 hit in the UK.

After the release of Half a Love, The Chi-Lites released three further non-album singles for Brunswick before leaving the company in 1976. Their final Brunswick release "You Don't Have to Go" passed by largely unnoticed in the US, but was a major 1976 summer hit in the UK where it became jointly the group's highest-charting single, matching the #3 position reached by "Have You Seen Her" over four years earlier. The 1999 Edsel Records reissue of Half a Love includes the final three singles as bonus tracks; they can also be found on the same company's 2004 UK-issue compilation The Complete The Chi-Lites on Brunswick Records: Volume 2.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Half-a-Love"	Teddy Randazzo, Victoria Pike, Iran Koster	2:48
2.	"Here I Am"	Eugene Record, Chris Allen	3:45
3.	"I Never Had It So Good (And Felt So Bad)"	Eugene Record, Stan McKenney	5:06
4.	"Living in the Footsteps of Another Man"	Samuel Garner, James Smith	3:01
5.	"When Temptation Comes"	Eugene Record	4:20

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"It's Time for Love"	Eugene Record	5:05
7.	"Take a Trip to the Islands"	Eugene Record	3:20
8.	"Go Away Dream"	Eugene Record, Stan McKinney	3:23
9.	"I'm Not a Gambler"	Eugene Record	3:55
10.	"Ain't Too Much of Nothin'"	Eugene Record	3:05

Tracks 3 & 8 originally released on Chi-Lites (1973)
Tracks 4 & 10 originally released on A Lonely Man (1972)

Charts

Chart (1975)	Peak ^[2]
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	41

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	US ^[2]	US R&B ^[2]
1975	"It's Time for Love"	94	27
1975	"Here I Am"	—	87

References

↑ Hamilton, Andrew. Half a Love review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "US Charts > The Chi-Lites". Allmusic. Retrieved 2013-03-31.

External links

Half a Love at Discogs

v t e The Chi-Lites

Eugene Record Robert "Squirrel" Lester Creadel "Red" Jones Marshall Thompson Clarence Johnson Stanley Anderson Willie Kensey Doc Roberson David Scott Danny Johnson Vandy Hampton Frank Reed Anthony Watson Tara Thompson Fred Simon

Studio albums	Give It Away I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine?) (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People A Lonely Man A Letter to Myself Chi-Lites Toby Half a Love Happy Being Lonely Help Wanted

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits

Singles	"The Twelfth of Never" "Have You Seen Her" "Oh Girl"

Related topics	Discography

Book:The Chi-Lites

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