Something to Love explained

Something to Love
Type:	Album
Artist:	L.T.D.
Cover:	Something to Love.jpg
Released:	July 11, 1977
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

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."^[1]

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.

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

Chart (1977)	Peaks ^[2]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	21
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	1

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
		US	US R&B
1977	"(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again"	4	1
1978	"Never Get Enough of Your Love"	56	8

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1977 (U.S.)

Notes and References

1. News: Freedberg . Mike . Record Reviews . Bay State Banner . 103 . 6 Oct 1977 . 19.
2. 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. US Charts > L.T.D.]. Billboard. 17 April 2017.