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The honey-voiced Green made some of the most visionary soul music of the Seventies at Hi studios. "In Memphis you just do as you feel," he told Rolling Stone in 1972. "It's not a modern, up-to-par, very glamorous, big-red-chairs-and-carpet-that-thick studio. It's one of those places you can go into and stomp out a good soul jam." This collection, with hits such as "Let's Stay Together" and "Tired of Being Alone," sums up an amazing six-album run in the early Seventies. That period ended in 1974 when a spurned woman threw a pot of hot grits on Green and then shot herself; soon after, Green bought a church in Memphis and became a minister.

Total album sales: 1 million

Peak chart position: 17

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