Something to Love

{{Infobox album

| name = Something to Love

| type = Album

| artist = L.T.D.

| cover = Something to Love.jpg

| alt =

| released = July 11, 1977

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Total Experience Recording Studios
(Hollywood, California)

| genre = Soul, funk

| length = 39:26

| label = A&M

| producer = Bobby Martin

| prev_title = Love to the World

| prev_year = 1976

| next_title = Togetherness

| next_year = 1978

}}

Something to Love is the fourth studio album by Los Angeles, California -based band, L.T.D., released in 1977 on the A&M label.

Critical reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 =AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000182593 | label=Something to Love review |first=Amy |last=Hanson |accessdate=2017-04-17}}

}}

The Bay State Banner wrote that "the bulk of this set is artificially sweet, overblown arrangement done by Manhattans producer Bobby Martin," and called the album "another weak-kneed pop-soul LP, good for unconfident black radio."{{cite news |last1=Freedberg |first1=Mike |title=Record Reviews |work=Bay State Banner |issue=103 |date=6 Oct 1977 |page=19}}

Commercial performance

The album peaked at No. 1 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 21 on the Billboard 200. The album features the singles "(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again", which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and "Never Get Enough of Your Love", which charted at No. 8 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 56 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

{{Track listing

| headline = Side one

| title1 = Age of the Showdown

| writer1 = Rudy Clark

| length1 = 5:41

| title2 = (Won't Cha) Stay with Me

| writer2 = Henry E. Davis

| length2 = 3:59

| title3 = (Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again

| writer3 = Len Ron Hanks, Zane Grey

| length3 = 4:44

| title4 = You Come First at Last

| writer4 = Tom Shapiro, Jim O'Loughlin

| length4 = 4:05

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| title5 = We Party Hearty

| writer5 = Henry E. Davis, Jeffrey Osborne

| length5 = 5:15

| title6 = If You're in Need

| writer6 = Len Ron Hanks, Zane Grey

| length6 = 3:38

| title7 = Never Get Enough of Your Love

| writer7 = Ray Dahrouge

| length7 = 3:47

| title8 = Make Someone Smile, Today!

| writer8 = Billy Osborne

| length8 = 4:03

| title9 = Material Things

| writer9 = Jeffrey Osborne, Jimmie Davis

| length9 = 4:14

}}

Personnel

L.T.D.

Jeffrey Osborne - lead vocals (tracks 1-3, 5-7, 9), drums (tracks 4, 6), percussion, background vocals, arrangements (track 9)
Billy Osborne – lead vocals (tracks 4, 8), organ, percussion, background vocals, arrangements (track 8)
Jimmie Davis – acoustic and electric piano, clavinet, synthesizers, background vocals, arrangements (track 9)
Henry E. Davis – bass guitar, background vocals, arrangements (tracks 2, 5)
John T. McGee – guitar
Carle Wayne Vickers – trumpet, flugelhorn, bass flute
Abraham "Onion" Miller – tenor saxophone
Lorenzo Carnegie – alto and tenor saxophones
Jake Riley – trombone
Melvin D. Webb – drums (tracks 1-3, 5, 7-9), percussion

Additional personnel

Benorce Blackmon – additional guitar
Bobby Martin – producer, arrangements (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 7), string arrangements (tracks 2, 8)
Bob Hughes – engineer
Douglas Graves – assistant engineer
Bernie Grundman – mastering

Charts

Album

class="wikitable"

!Chart (1977)

!Peaks
{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/biz/search/charts?f[0]=ts_chart_artistname%3AL.T.D.&f[1]=ss_bb_type%3Achart_item&type=2&artist=L.T.D.|title=US Charts > L.T.D.|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=17 April 2017}}

U.S. Billboard Top LPs

|align="center"|21

U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs

|align="center"|1

Singles

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
rowspan="2"\| Year ! rowspan="2"\| Single ! colspan="2"\| Peaks
style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="35"\| US ! width="35"\| US R&B
rowspan="1"\|1977 \| align="left"\| "(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again" \| 4 \| 1
rowspan="1"\|1978 \| align="left"\| "Never Get Enough of Your Love" \| 56 \| 8

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

rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single

! colspan="2"| Peaks

style="font-size:smaller;"

! width="35"| US

! width="35"| US
R&B

rowspan="1"|1977

| align="left"| "(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again"

| 4

| 1

rowspan="1"|1978