"Let's Stay Together" is a soul song written by Al Green, Willie Mitchell and Al Jackson Jr. Al Green released it as a single on Hi Records in November 1971, with "Tomorrow's Dream" on the B-side. The recording, which runs 3:18, was produced by Willie Mitchell and made at Royal Recording Studio in Memphis. It later appeared on Green's 1972 album of the same name, mixed by Mitchell and Terry Manning. The single reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for 16 weeks and No. 1 on the R&B chart for nine weeks, and it reached No. 7 in the UK and No. 14 in Canada. Billboard ranked it the eleventh-highest selling song of 1972. Rolling Stone placed it 60th on its 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 and selected for the National Recording Registry in 2010. Tina Turner's 1983 cover, produced by Martyn Ware and Greg Walsh of Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation, was a comeback single for her.
