Discography and Biography of Percy Sledge. Listen to all their hits.
Percy Sledge Songs

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Percy Tyrone Sledge (November 25, 1940 - April 14, 2015) was an African American R&B, soul, gospel, and traditional pop singer. He is best known for the song "When a Man Loves a Woman", a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, Gold-certified disc from the RIAA. Having previously worked as a hospital orderly in the early 1960s, Sledge achieved his strongest success in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a series of emotional soul songs. In later years, Sledge received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Career Achievement Award. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.

Below is a list of Percy Sledge 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: Atlantic 2326
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #4
written by: Percy Sledge
album: When A Man Loves A Woman / The Best Of Percy Sledge / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Percy Sledge When a Man Loves a Woman
1966 Atlantic
2 record label: Atlantic 2342
chart position: RandB #5, US #17, UK #34
written by: Bobby Robinson, Dan Quinvy & Pronto Bob
album: Warm & Tender Soul / The Best Of Percy Sledge
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Percy Sledge Warm and Tender Love
1966 Atlantic
3 record label: Atlantic 2490
chart position: RandB #6, US #11
written by: Steve Davis
album: Take Time to Know Her / The Best Of Percy Sledge
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Percy Sledge Take Time to Know Her
1968 Atlantic
4 record label: Atlantic 2358
chart position: RandB #7, US #20
written by: Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham
album: Warm and Tender Soul / The Best Of Percy Sledge
comments: [deep soul ballad]
Percy Sledge It Tears Me Up
1966 Atlantic
5 record label: Capricorn 2089009
chart position: RandB #15, US #62
written by: George Soule
Percy Sledge I'll Be Your Everything
1974 Capricorn
6 record label: Atlantic 2453
chart position: RandB #39, US #42
written by: Eddie Hinton and Marlin Greene
album: Take Time to Know Her / The Best Of Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge Cover Me
1967 Atlantic
7 record label: Atlantic 2396
chart position: RandB #25, US #59
written by: Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
album: Take Time to Know Her / The Best Of Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge Out of Left Field
1967 Atlantic
8 record label: Atlantic 2414
chart position: RandB #35, US #40
written by: Vera Matson, Elvis Presley, George R. Poulton (uncredited) and Ken Darby (uncredited)
album: Warm and Tender Soul
Percy Sledge Love Me Tender
1967 Atlantic
9 record label: Atlantic 2539
chart position: RandB #41, US #63
written by: Bobby Russell
album: Take Time to Know Her / The Best Of Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge Sudden Stop
1968 Atlantic
10 record label: Atlantic 2616
chart position: RandB #35, US #86
written by: Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard
Percy Sledge Any Day Now
1969 Atlantic
11 record label: Atlantic 2434
chart position: US #66
written by: Virgil Stewart
album: The Percy Sledge Way / The Best Of Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)
1967 Atlantic
12 record label: Atlantic 2848
chart position: Cashbox RandB #32
written by: Donny Fritts, Dan Penn
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Percy Sledge Rainbow Road
1972 Atlantic
13 record label: Atlantic 2594
chart position: RandB #44, US #93
written by: Wini Scott
album: The Best of Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge My Special Prayer
1969 Atlantic
14 record label: Atlantic 2383
chart position: RandB #44, US #87
written by: Bobby Womack
album: Take Time to Know Her / The Best Of Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge Baby, Help Me
1967 Atlantic
15 record label: Atlantic 2414
chart position: US #91
written by: Fred Jay and Art Harris
album: The Percy Sledge Way
Percy Sledge What Am I Living For
1967 Atlantic
16 record label: Atlantic 2826
chart position: Cashbox RandB #49
written by: Phillip Mitchell
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Percy Sledge That's The Way I Want To Live My Life
1971 Atlantic
17 record label: Atlantic 2563
chart position: US #109
written by: Eddie Hinton and Donnie Fritts
album: The Best Of Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge You're All Around Me
1968 Atlantic
18 record label: Atlantic 2646
chart position: US #116
written by: Richie Furay
Percy Sledge Kind Woman
1969 Atlantic
19 record label: Atlantic 2616
chart position: US #126
written by: Billy Smith (as Billy Dawn Smith) and Sid Faust
Percy Sledge The Angels Listened
1969 Atlantic
20 record label: Atlantic 2963
chart position: RandB #89
written by: Phil Hurtt and Bunny Sigler
Percy Sledge Sunshine
1973 Atlantic
-- record label: Atlantic 8146
written by: Chips Moman, Dan Penn
album: The Percy Sledge Way / The Best Of Percy Sledge
comments: [southern soul ballad album cut]
Percy Sledge The Dark End Of The Street
1967 Atlantic
-- record label: Atlantic 2434
written by: Evans, Jenkins
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Percy Sledge Hard To Believe
1967 Atlantic
-- record label: Atlantic 584300 (UK)
written by: Penn, Greene, Greene
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Percy Sledge Faithful And True
1969 Atlantic
-- record label: Atlantic 2679
written by: A.L. Owens, D. Frazier
comments: [southern soul]
Percy Sledge True Love Travels On A Gravel Road
1969 Atlantic




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