Half a Love

{{Infobox album

| name = Half a Love

| type = Studio

| artist = The Chi-Lites

| cover = Halfalovealbum.jpeg

| alt =

| released = July 1975

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = R&B, soul

| length = 38:21

| label = Brunswick

| producer = Eugene Record

| prev_title = Toby

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Happy Being Lonely

| next_year = 1976

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 =Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} {{AllMusic |class=album |id=r538420 |tab=review |label=Half a Love review |first=Andrew |last=Hamilton |accessdate=2011-10-26}}

}}

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

{{Track listing

| headline = Side one

| title1 = Half-a-Love

| writer1 = Teddy Randazzo, Victoria Pike, Iran Koster

| length1 = 2:48

| title2 = Here I Am

| writer2 = Eugene Record, Chris Allen

| length2 = 3:45

| title3 = I Never Had It So Good (And Felt So Bad)

| writer3 = Eugene Record, Stan McKenney

| length3 = 5:06

| title4 = Living in the Footsteps of Another Man

| writer4 = Samuel Garner, James Smith

| length4 = 3:01

| title5 = When Temptation Comes

| writer5 = Eugene Record

| length5 = 4:20

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| title6 = It's Time for Love

| writer6 = Eugene Record

| length6 = 5:05

| title7 = Take a Trip to the Islands

| writer7 = Eugene Record

| length7 = 3:20

| title8 = Go Away Dream

| writer8 = Eugene Record, Stan McKinney

| length8 = 3:23

| title9 = I'm Not a Gambler

| writer9 = Eugene Record

| length9 = 3:55

| title10 = Ain't Too Much of Nothin'

| writer10 = Eugene Record

| length10 = 3:05

}}

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

Charts

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!Chart (1975)

!Peak
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U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs

|align="center"|41

;Singles

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
rowspan="2"\| Year ! rowspan="2"\| Single ! colspan="2"\| Peak chart positions
style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="40"\| US ! width="40"\| US R&B
rowspan="2"\|1975 \| align="left"\| "It's Time for Love" \| 94 \| 27
align="left"\| "Here I Am" \| — \| 87

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single

! colspan="2"| Peak chart positions

style="font-size:smaller;"

! width="40"| US

! width="40"| US
R&B

rowspan="2"|1975

| align="left"| "It's Time for Love"

| 94

| 27

align="left"| "Here I Am"