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Lou Rawls Songs

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Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls (December 1, 1933 - January 6, 2006) was an American recording artist, voice actor, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his singing ability: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game". Rawls released more than 60 albums, sold more than 40 million records, and had numerous charting singles, most notably his song "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine". He worked as a television, motion picture, and voice actor. He was also a three-time Grammy-winner, all for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

Below is a list of Lou Rawls songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: P.I.R. 3592
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #10, US AC #1, US dance #4
written by: Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
album: All Things In Time / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound]
Lou Rawls You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
1976 P.I.R.
2 record label: Capitol 5709
chart position: RandB #1, US #13
written by: Ben Raleigh & Dave Linden
album: Soulin'
comments: [ballad]
Lou Rawls Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
1966 Capitol
3 record label: Capitol 2550
chart position: RandB #3, US #18, US AC #35
written by: Isaac Hayes & David Porter
album: The Way It Was, The Way It Is
comments: [ballad]
Lou Rawls Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
1969 Capitol
4 record label: MGM 14262
chart position: RandB #17, US #17, US AC #14
written by: Bobby Hebb & Sandy Baron
album: Natural Man
Lou Rawls A Natural Man
1971 MGM
5 record label: P.I.R. 3634
chart position: RandB #21, US #24, US AC #5
written by: Von Gray & Sherman Marshall
album: When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound]
Lou Rawls Lady Love
1978 P.I.R.
6 record label: Capitol 5869
chart position: RandB #3, US #29
written by: Lou Rawls, David Axelrod & Ben Raleigh
album: Too Much !
Lou Rawls Dead End Street
1967 Capitol
7 record label: P.I.R. 3623
chart position: RandB #8, US #66
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: Unmistakably You
Lou Rawls See You When I Git There
1977 P.I.R.
8 record label: P.I.R. 3684
chart position: RandB #11
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: Let Me Be Good to You
Lou Rawls Let Me Be Good to You
1979 P.I.R.
9 record label: P.I.R. 3604
chart position: RandB #19, US #64, US AC #19
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: All Things in Time
Lou Rawls Groovy People
1976 P.I.R.
10 record label: Capitol 5941
chart position: RandB #25, US #45
written by: June Jackson
album: That's Lou
Lou Rawls Show Business
1967 Capitol
11 record label: P.I.R. 3643
chart position: RandB #32, US AC #10
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All
Lou Rawls One Life to Live
1978 P.I.R.
12 record label: Epic 34 03758
chart position: RandB #60, US #65, US AC #10
written by: Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar
album: When the Night Comes
Lou Rawls Wind Beneath My Wings
1983 Epic
13 record label: P.I.R. 4674(UK)
chart position: UK #53
written by: Bunny Sigler
album: All Things in Time
Lou Rawls From Now On
1976 P.I.R.
14 record label: P.I.R. 3738
chart position: RandB #26
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: Sit Down and Talk to Me
Lou Rawls Sit Down and Talk to Me
1980 P.I.R.
15 record label: P.I.R. 3750
chart position: US #77
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: Sit Down and Talk to Me
Lou Rawls You're My Blessing
1980 P.I.R.
16 record label: Capitol 5424
chart position: US #83, US AC #27
written by: Julian Robledo and Theodora Morse (as Dorothy Terriss)
Lou Rawls Three O'Clock in the Morning
1965 Capitol
17 record label: Capitol 5790
chart position: RandB #35, US #55
written by: Ben Raleigh and H. B. Barnum
album: Lou Rawls Carryin' On!
Lou Rawls You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches
1966 Capitol
18 record label: Capitol 2668
chart position: RandB #33, US #63
written by: Gerry Goffin and Carole King
album: Your Good Thing
Lou Rawls I Can't Make It Alone
1969 Capitol
19 record label: Epic 06145
chart position: UK #80
album: Love All Your Blues Away
Lou Rawls Stop Me from Starting This Feeling
1986 Epic
20 record label: Capitol 2734
chart position: RandB #32, US #95, US AC #31
written by: Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson and Berry Gordy
album: You've Made Me So Very Happy
Lou Rawls You've Made Me So Very Happy
1970 Capitol
21 record label: Gamble And Huff 310
chart position: RandB #28
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: Family Reunion
comments: [ballad]
Lou Rawls I Wish You Belonged to Me
1987 Gamble And Huff
22 record label: Capitol 5824
chart position: Cashbox R&B #36, US #92
written by: John Anderson
album: Lou Rawls Carryin' On!
Lou Rawls Trouble Down Here Below
1967 Capitol
23 record label: Capitol 5655
chart position: RandB #33
written by: Johnny Mandel and Paul Francis Webster
album: Lou Rawls Live!
Lou Rawls The Shadow of Your Smile
1966 Capitol
24 record label: Capitol 2252
chart position: US #69
written by: Lalo Schifrin and Gale Garnett
album: Feelin' Good
Lou Rawls Down Here on the Ground
1968 Capitol
25 record label: Capitol 2172
chart position: US #103
written by: Larry Collins and Mac David
Lou Rawls You're Good for Me
1968 Capitol
26 record label: MGM 14428
chart position: Cashbox R&B #54, US #106, US AC #34
Lou Rawls Walk On In
1972 MGM
27 record label: P.I.R. 3114
chart position: RandB #37
album: Shades of Blue
Lou Rawls I Go Crazy
1980 P.I.R.
28 record label: Capitol 2084
chart position: US #113
written by: Bob Tubert
Lou Rawls My Ancestors
1968 Capitol
29 record label: MGM 14349
chart position: RandB #44, US #105
written by: Bobby Hebb and Sandy Baron
album: Silk and Soul
Lou Rawls His Song Shall Be Sung
1972 MGM
30 record label: Capitol 2856
chart position: RandB #45, US #96
written by: Sam Cooke
Lou Rawls Bring It On Home
1970 Capitol
31 record label: Capitol 2348
chart position: US #123
written by: Quincy Jones and Ernie Shelby
comments: from the movie The Split
Lou Rawls The Split
1969 Capitol
32 record label: Capitol 2084
chart position: Cashbox RandB #45
written by: Larry Weiss
album: Feelin' Good
Lou Rawls Evil Woman
1968 Capitol
33 record label: Epic 02999
chart position: RandB #54
album: Now Is The Time
Lou Rawls Will You Kiss Me One More Time
1982 Epic
34 record label: P.I.R. 3653
chart position: RandB #76, US AC #33
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All
Lou Rawls There Will Be Love
1978 P.I.R.
35 record label: P.I.R. 3102
chart position: RandB #57
written by: Homer Banks and Allen Jones
album: Sit Down and Talk to Me
Lou Rawls Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)
1980 P.I.R.
36 record label: Epic 4758
chart position: RandB #67
written by: David Porter, Donald O'Conner
album: Close Company
Lou Rawls All Time Lover
1984 Epic
37 record label: Epic 05714
chart position: RandB #71
written by: David Foster, Jay Graydon and Richard Page
album: Love All Your Blues Away
comments: [ballad]
Lou Rawls featuring Tata Vega Learn to Love Again
1985 Epic
38 record label: P.I.R. 83672
chart position: RandB #74
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert
album: All Things in Time
Lou Rawls This Song Will Last Forever
1977 P.I.R.
39 record label: Bell 45608
chart position: RandB 81
written by: Daryl Hall and John Oates
Lou Rawls She's Gone
1974 Bell
-- record label: Manhattan
written by: Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
album: Christmas Is The Time
comments: [christmas album cut]
Lou Rawls Silver Bells
1993 Manhattan
-- record label: P.I.R. 33957
written by: Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff
album: All Things In Time
comments: [album cut]
Lou Rawls You're The One
1976 P.I.R.
-- record label: P.I.R. 33957
written by: J. Davis, A. Felder, F, Fioravanti
album: All Things In Time
comments: [ballad album cut]
Lou Rawls Time
1976 P.I.R.
-- record label: P.I.R. 33957
written by: B. Sigler
album: All Things In Time
comments: [ballad album cut]
Lou Rawls Need You Forever
1976 P.I.R.
-- record label: P.I.R. 1004 (UK)
written by: R.L. Martin
album: All Things In Time
comments: [ballad album cut]
Lou Rawls Let's Fall In Love All Over Again
1976 P.I.R.
-- record label: Capitol 5160
written by: H.B. Barnum, L. Carr
comments: [beat ballad]
Lou Rawls The House Next Door
1964 Capitol
-- record label: Capitol 5227
written by: Otis Rielly
Lou Rawls I Fell In Love
1964 Capitol
-- record label: Capitol 15515 (UK)
written by: Pete Andreoli, Vini Poncia
album: That\'s Lou
comments: [beat ballad]
Lou Rawls Hard To Get Thing Called Love
1967 Capitol
-- record label: Capitol 2942
written by: L.C. Cooke
album: Bring It On Home....And Other Sam Cooke Hits
Lou Rawls Win Your Love
1970 Capitol
-- record label: MGM 14489
written by: Larry Weiss
album: A Man Of Value
Lou Rawls A Man Of Value
1972 MGM
-- record label: MGM 14574
written by: Guy Hemric
album: The Soul Of Nigger Charley (Original Soundtrack Album)
comments: [ballad]
Lou Rawls Morning Comes Around
1973 MGM
-- record label: Arista 103
written by: G. Williams, J. Barry
album: She\'s Gone
Lou Rawls Baby You Don't Know How Good You Are
1975 Arista
-- record label: P.I.R. 6354 (UK)
written by: K. Gamble, L. Huff
album: When You Hear Lou, You\'ve Heard It All
comments: [ballad]
Lou Rawls If I Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
1977 P.I.R.
-- record label: P.I.R. 6354 (UK)
written by: R, MacDonald, W. Salter
album: When You Hear Lou, You\'ve Heard It All
comments: [philly sound]
Lou Rawls Trade Winds
1977 P.I.R.
-- record label: P.I.R. 5232 (UK)
written by: K. Gamble, L. Huff
album: Unmistakably Lou
comments: [philly sound]
Lou Rawls Some Folks Never Learn
1977 P.I.R.
-- record label: P.I.R. 3623
written by: K. Gamble, L. Huff
album: Unmistakably Lou
comments: [philly sound]
Lou Rawls Spring Again
1977 P.I.R.
-- record label: P.I.R. 7500 (UK)
written by: K. Gamble, L. Huff
album: Let Me Be Good To You
comments: [philly sound]
Lou Rawls Time Will Take Care Of Everything
1979 P.I.R.
-- record label: P.I.R. 3102
written by: H. Banks, A. Jones
album: Sit Down and Talk To Me
comments: [ballad]
Lou Rawls Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)
1979 P.I.R.
-- record label: P.I.R. 7051
written by: W. Dixon
album: Shades of Blue
Lou Rawls Hoochie Coochie Man
1980 P.I.R.
-- record label: Epic 3357
written by: W. Lester, R. Brown
album: Now Is The Time
Lou Rawls Let Me Show You How
1982 Epic
-- record label: Epic 4079
written by: W. Holyfield
album: When The Night Comes
Lou Rawls The One I Sing My Love Songs
1983 Epic
-- record label: P.I.R.
written by: A. Newley, L. Bricusse
album: All Things In Time
comments: [philly sound album cut]
Lou Rawls Pure Imagination
1976 P.I.R.
-- record label: Epic 5714
written by: Joe Pescetto
album: Close Company
comments: [disco dance]
Lou Rawls Ready Or Not?
1985 Epic
-- record label: Capitol Records 2864
written by: S. Stills
album: Feelin\' Good
comments: [album cut]
Lou Rawls For What It's Worth
1968 Capitol Records
-- record label: Manhattan 79700
written by: Brook Bentgon, Jimmy Williams
album: Portrait of the Blues
comments: [soul blues]
Lou Rawls & Phoebe Snow A Lovers's Question
1993 Manhattan
-- record label: P.I.R. 3715
written by: K. Gamble, L. Huff
album: Let Me Be Good To You
comments: [philly sound]
Lou Rawls What's The Matter With The World
1979 P.I.R.




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