Luther Ingram – (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right: The Best of Luther Ingram
Tracks
1. Pity For The Lonely
2. My Honey And Me
3. Ain’t That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)
4. To The Other Man
5. Be Good To My Baby
6. I’ll Love You Until The End
7. You Were Made For Me
8. Missing You
9. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right
10. I’ll Be Your Shelter (In Time of Storm)
11. Always
12. Love Ain’t Gonna Run Me Away
13. Ain’t Good For Nothing
14. Let’s Steal Away To The Hideaway
15. I Like The Feeling
16. Do You Love Somebody
17. It’s Too Much
So indelibly has the searing Muscle Shoals-cut cheating ode “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right” been burned into our collective consciousness that it all but threatens to overshadow everything else that Luther Ingram recorded for Johnny Baylor’s Ko Ko label. That’s a shame, because Luther was a veritable hitmaking machine from 1969 to 1978. He scored 17 R&B chart entries for Ko Ko, three of them cracking the Top Ten and every one memorably spotlighting his mellifluous, Sam Cooke-influenced vocal charms. He was also a gifted songwriter, teaming with Mark Rice to co-write the Staple Singers’ classic empowerment anthem “Respect Yourself.” Luther Ingram will always be remembered first and foremost for his number one R&B smash, yet his entire Ko Ko catalog is spectacular.
(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right: The Best Of Luther Ingram contains every one of Luther’s chart entries for Ko Ko Records. It’s the most extensive authorized domestic release of his work to date.