title: Half a Love
text: # Half a Love
  
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  Half a Love is the eighth album by American soul group The Chi-Lites, produced and largely written by lead singer Eugene Record. The album was released in 1975 on the Brunswick label.
  
  ## History
  
  Half a Love was the group's final album for Brunswick, which was in serious financial trouble by 1975. Half a Love contains only six new tracks, supplemented by four tracks from earlier Chi-Lites albums. Brunswick's problems meant that the album received minimal promotion in the US, where it could only reach #41 on the R&B chart. The only single release "It's Time for Love" likewise stalled in the lower reaches of both the pop and R&B charts, but did become a top 5 hit in the UK.
  
  After the release of Half a Love, The Chi-Lites released three further non-album singles for Brunswick before leaving the company in 1976. Their final Brunswick release "You Don't Have to Go" passed by largely unnoticed in the US, but was a major 1976 summer hit in the UK where it became jointly the group's highest-charting single, matching the #3 position reached by "Have You Seen Her" over four years earlier. The 1999 Edsel Records reissue of Half a Love includes the final three singles as bonus tracks; they can also be found on the same company's 2004 UK-issue compilation The Complete The Chi-Lites on Brunswick Records: Volume 2.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * Tracks 3 & 8 originally released on Chi-Lites (1973)
  * Tracks 4 & 10 originally released on A Lonely Man (1972)
  
  ## Charts
  
  | Chart (1975) | Peak |
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  | U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs | 41 |
  
  ### Singles
  
  | Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
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  | Year | Single | US | US R&B |
  | 1975 | "It's Time for Love" | 94 | 27 |
  | 1975 | "Here I Am" | — | 87 |
  