Let's Stay Together is a soul ballad by American singer Al Green. It was released as a single in November 1971 and later appeared on the 1972 album Let's Stay Together, produced by Willie Mitchell and recorded at Royal Recording Studio in Memphis. The song was written by Al Green, Willie Mitchell, and Al Jackson Jr, and it became Green's signature tune, peaking at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topping the R&B chart while spending 16 weeks on the Hot 100 and nine weeks on the R&B chart. The Let's Stay Together album reached number eight on the pop albums chart and led the soul albums chart for ten weeks. The track is highly regarded for its influence and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, added to the National Recording Registry, and ranked among Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time; it has also been famously covered by Tina Turner and appeared in films such as Pulp Fiction.
