title: Black & Blue (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes album)
text: # Black & Blue (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes album)
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | BBC | (favorable) |
  | Christgau's Record Guide | B+ |
  | Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
  
  Black & Blue is an album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in September 1973. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff.
  
  The album features the hit singles "The Love I Lost" and "Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Your Love Back)". The B-side of "Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Your Love Back)", "I'm Weak for You", also made the R&B chart.
  
  The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2010 by Big Break Records.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks are written by Gamble and Huff, except where noted.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, Lawrence Brown, Lloyd Parks – vocals
  * MFSB – music
  
  ## Charts
  
  | Chart (1973) | Peak |
  | - | - |
  | U.S. Billboard Top LPs | 57 |
  | U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs | 5 |
  
  ### Singles
  
  | Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Year | Single | US | US R&B | UK |
  | 1973 | "The Love I Lost (Part 1)" | 7 | 1 | 21 |
  | 1974 | "Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Take Your Love Back)" | 58 | 6 | 32 |
  | 1974 | "I'm Weak for You" | — | 87 | — |
  