B.B. King ‘To Know You Is To Love You’ paintings – Courtesy: UMG
In the present day we bear in mind a nice collaboration between giants of blues and soul, and the late and nice B.B. King’s Seventies reference to Stevie Marvel. B.B’s album To Know You Is To Love You, produced by Dave Crawford and with a title music co-written by Stevie and Syreeta Wright, made its US chart debut on September 8, 1973.
By this time, B.B. was effectively into his stride of spectacular album releases for the ABC label, a sequence that had begun in 1970 with Indianola Mississippi Seeds. The 1973 album additionally had the excellence of Stevie Marvel taking part in keyboards, whereas Wayne Jackson and the Memphis Horns additionally added to the richness of the sound. “To Know You Is To Love You” was the lead single from the set and reached No.12 R&B, simply edging into the pop Prime 40 at No.38.
King himself contributed two compositions, “Love” and “Thank You For Loving The Blues.” Crawford, who additionally performed keyboards, co-wrote 4 tunes together with the well-remembered “I Like To Live The Love,” with one other keyboardist, Charles Mann. Launched because the follow-up single, it was an excellent larger soul hit, peaking at No.6, and No.28 pop.
The album debuted on the Billboard chart at No.148 and went as excessive as No.71. Remarkably, it could be 27 years earlier than the blues legend went past that on the US LP chart, when his Grammy-winning Driving With The King collaboration with Eric Clapton reached No.3.
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