To Be True

{{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
KZ 33148

| 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}} {{AllMusic |class=album |id=r1719739 |tab=review |label=To Be True review |first=Craig |last=Lytle |accessdate=2011-10-16}}

|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev2Score = B+{{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}}

}}

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
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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 ! width="40"\| US R&B ! width="40"\| US Dance
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 \| —

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

rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single

! colspan="4"| Peak chart positions

style="font-size:smaller;"

! width="40"| US

! width="40"| US
R&B

! width="40"| US
Dance

rowspan="1"|1974

| align="left"| "Where Are All My Friends"

| 80

| 8