{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = To Be True | type = studio | artist = Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes | cover = To be true (album cover).JPG | alt = | released = February 1975 | recorded = Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | venue = | studio = | genre = R&B | length = 38:46 | label = Philadelphia International<br><small>KZ 33148</small> | producer = Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff | prev_title = Black & Blue | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = Wake Up Everybody | next_year = 1975 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 =Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r1719739 |tab=review |label=''To Be True'' review |first=Craig |last=Lytle |accessdate=2011-10-16}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' |rev2Score = B+<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: M|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=70|accessdate=March 7, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref> }} '''''To Be True''''' is an album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in February 1975. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff.
The album features the hit singles "Bad Luck", "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" with Sharon Paige, and "Where Are All My Friends".
The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2016 by Big Break Records.
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = Side one | title1 = Where Are All My Friends | writer1 = Gene McFadden, John Whitehead, Victor Carstarphen | length1 = 3:22 | title2 = To Be True | writer2 = Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff | length2 = 4:42 | title3 = Pretty Flower | writer3 = McFadden, Whitehead, Carstarphen | length3 = 5:42 | title4 = Hope That We Can Be Together Soon | note4 = Female vocal by Sharon Paige | writer4 = Gamble, Huff | length4 = 3:45 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | title5 = Nobody Could Take Your Place | writer5 = Gamble, Huff | length5 = 4:22 | title6 = Somewhere Down the Line | writer6 = Gamble, Huff | length6 = 4:55 | title7 = Bad Luck | writer7 = McFadden, Whitehead, Carstarphen | length7 = 6:29 | title8 = All Because of a Woman | writer8 = McFadden, Whitehead, Huff | length8 = 5:29 }} {{Track listing | headline = 2016 remastered reissue bonus tracks | title9 = Hope That We Can Be Together Soon | note9 = Single Version | length9 = 3:26 | title10 = Bad Luck | note10 = Tom Moulton Mix | length10 = 7:56 }}
==Personnel== *Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, Lawrence Brown, Jerry Cummings – vocals *Sharon Paige – female vocalist on "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" *MFSB – music *Carla Benson, Evette Benton, Barbara Ingram - background vocals
==Charts== {| class="wikitable" !Chart (1975) !Peak<br><ref name="allmusic">{{Cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4891/charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}}|title=US Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2013-04-21}}</ref> |- |U.S. ''Billboard'' Top LPs |align="center"|26 |- |U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Soul LPs |align="center"|1 |- |}
;Singles {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Single ! colspan="4"| Peak chart positions |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="40"| US<br><ref name="allmusic"/> ! width="40"| US<br>R&B<br><ref name="allmusic"/> ! width="40"| US<br>Dance<br><ref name="allmusic"/> |- | rowspan="1"|1974 | align="left"| "Where Are All My Friends" | 80 | 8 | 11 |- | rowspan="2"|1975 | align="left"| "Bad Luck (Part 1)" | 15 | 4 | 1 |- | align="left"| "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" | 42 | 1 | — |- |}
==Samples== Cyndi Lauper used an interpolation of "Where Are All My Friends" in the 2008 song "Set Your Heart" from her album ''Bring Ya to the Brink''.
==See also== *List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1975
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{discogs master|4701|To Be True}}
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Category:1975 albums Category:Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes albums Category:Albums produced by Leon Huff Category:Albums produced by Kenneth Gamble Category:Albums arranged by Bobby Martin Category:Albums recorded at Sigma Sound Studios Category:Philadelphia International Records albums