Let Me Live in Your Life

Let Me Live in Your Life
Studio album by Ben E. King
Released	1978
Recorded	ABC Recording Studios, Kendun Recorders, Daily Planet Recording Studio, Blank Tape Studios
Genre	Soul
Length	40:15
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Lamont Dozier, Bettye Crutcher, Jim Stewart, Patrick Adams
Ben E. King chronology
Rhapsody (1976) Let Me Live in Your Life (1978) Music Trance (1980)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul	[2]

Let Me Live in Your Life is an album by the American musician Ben E. King, released in 1978 through Atlantic Records.^[3]

Some tracks from Rhapsody appear on this album. "Tippin'", "I See The Light", "Dark Storm on the Horizon", and "Spoiled" are new tracks. "Let Me Live In Your Life", "Fifty Years" and "Sweet Rhapsody" were originally recorded by Motown group The Originals for their 1975 Lamont Dozier-produced album California Sunset.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Lamont Dozier; except where indicated

1. "Tippin'" (Bettye Crutcher) [4:00]
2. "Wonder Woman" [3:23]
3. "Let Me Live in Your Life" [5:03]
4. "I See the Light" (Bobby Manuel, Jimmy Joy, Jimmy McGhee, Melvin Robertson, William Murphy) [3:30]
5. "Fly Away (To My Wonderland)" (Lamont Dozier, McKinley Jackson) [4:06]
6. "Dark Storm on the Horizon" (Barry Goldberg, Gerry Goffin) [4:27]
7. "Family Jewels" [3:38]
8. "Sweet Rhapsody" [3:57]
9. "Spoiled" (Ben E. King, J.R. Bailey, Michael Brandon) [3:39]
10. "Fifty Years" [4:32]

Personnel

• Bobby Manuel, Jay Graydon, Jimmy McGhee, Ken Mazur, Lee Ritenour, Stan Lucas - guitar
• Jimmy Joy, John Barnes, Leroy Burgess, Patrick Adams - keyboards
• James Jamerson, Norbert Sloley, Scott Edwards, William Murphy, Wilton Felder - bass guitar
• James Gadson, Jim Gordon, Melvin Robertson, Richard Taninbaum - drums
• Eddie "Bongo" Brown - bongos, congas
• Gary Coleman, Michael Lewis - percussion
• Christine Wiltshire, the Duncan Sisters, Gina Tharps, Gwen Owens, the Jones Girls (Brenda, Shirley & Valerie), Rhodes Chalmers & Rhodes, Roberta Moore, the Waters - backing vocals
• The Memphis Symphony - strings
• Johnny Allen - arrangements
• McKinley Jackson, Paul Riser - horn arrangements

References

1. Review of Let Me Live in Your Life at AllMusic. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
2. Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul. Virgin. p. 191.
3. Grimes, William (2 May 2015). "Ben E. King, 76, Soulful Drifters Star and Singer of 'Stand by Me,' Is Dead". The New York Times. p. A19.

External links

• Let Me Live in Your Life at Discogs (list of releases)