Happy 60th Birthday, Al Green!

Published on April 13, 2006 By Ionolast In Misc

"Let's Stay Together" and "I'm So in Love With You" are among his hits. May he have many more (birthdays and hits).

I saw him on the Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame broadcast several years ago. In the same segment were also Teddy Pendergrass, Chuck Jackson, Ben E. King and Brian McKnight. It was Al who brought down the house.

Green started singing professionally at age 9, when he and his brothers formed a gospel quartet, the Greene Brothers, in their hometown of Forest City, Arkansas. (Green dropped the final "e" from his surname when he went solo.) They toured the gospel circuits in the South, and then began performing around Michigan when the family relocated to Grand Rapids. At 16, Green formed a pop group, Al Greene and the Creations, with high school friends, and they released a single, "Back Up Train," in 1967 (under the new name Al Greene and the Soul Mates) that went to #5 on the national R&B chart."

Comments

kingbee

on Apr 14, 2006

on top of all of his other gifts, to his credit, he didn't write any songs about having a pan of hot grits thrown at him by an angry woman. instead he wised up.

(after a respectful amount of time had passed, my friend ray and i wrote the song for him: a lil thing we called 'hold the grits'. )

Dr Guy

on Apr 14, 2006

The sad part is I grew up listening to him, and now he is 60? Damn I am getting old!

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