Al Green’s Greatest Hits is consistently ranked as one of the best executed ‘greatest hits’ albums in history. The album peaked at #3 on Billboard’s Top Soul LPs and at #17 on the Billboard 200. Al Green is a soul/gospel singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including “Take Me to the River,” “Tired of Being Alone,” “I’m Still in Love with You,” “Love and Happiness,” and his signature song, “Let’s Stay Together.” Inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, Green was referred to on the museum’s site as being “one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music”.

This original greatest hits collection from 1975 features ten Al Green classics like “Let’s Stay Together”, “I’m Still In Love With You” and “I Can’t Get Next To You”. The definitive 70’s soul greatest hits album. Al Green’s smooth vocals exude longing and sex over bluesy, gritty music. It starts off with Green’s all-time greatest moment, “Tired of Being Alone”, that doesn’t mean it is downhill from there. Classic after classic follows, a picture of a legend in his prime. There isn’t a weak track in this mix. Simply put, soul music just doesn’t get any better than this.

‘Greatest Hits’ is one of the must-own soul albums. Al Green brought the Memphis sound into the ’70s by slightly softening it, melding smooth funkiness with his miraculous voice and innate sensitivity. upon its original release in 1975, Al Green’s ‘Greatest Hits’ pretty much summed up everything about Green, containing his ten biggest hits up to that point.