Artist
Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge is a r&b artist from Alabama, USA formed in 1966. 22 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
R&B · Alabama, USA · Best r&b albums
- 22
- Releases
- 1966–2023
- Active years
- 1966
- Formed
Artist
Percy Sledge is a r&b artist from Alabama, USA formed in 1966. 22 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
R&B · Alabama, USA · Best r&b albums
Most popular
Warm & Tender Soul
1966
The Percy Sledge Way
1967
Greatest Hits
2023
Anthology
2019
The Very Best of Percy Sledge & Ben E. King
2015
The Atlantic Recordings
2010
When a Man Loves a Woman (Mono)
2010
The Platinum Collection
2007
The Very Best of Percy Sledge
1998
Blue Night
1994
The Ultimate Collection: When a Man Loves a Woman
1987
The Best of Percy Sledge
1975
I'll Be Your Everything
1974
My Special Prayer
1969
When a Man Loves a Woman
Single · 1966
Warm and Tender Love
Single · 2023
When A Man Loves A Woman (Re-Recorded - Sped Up)
Single · 2023
Cover Me
Single · 2023
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When A Man Loves A Woman (Re-Recorded) [Orchestral Version]
Single · 2023
It Tears Me Up
Single · 2023
When a Man Loves a Woman / Love Me Like You Mean It
Single · 2009
Take Time to Know Her
Single · 1968
Percy Sledge (born November 25, 1941, Leighton, Alabama) is an American R&B and soul performer who recorded the hit "When a Man Loves a Woman" in 1966. Percy Sledge worked in a series of blue-collar jobs in the fields in Leighton, Alabama before taking a job as an orderly at Colbert County Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama. Through the mid 1960s, he toured the Southeast with the Esquires Combo on weekends, while working at the hospital during the week. A former patient and mutual friend of Sledge and record producer Quin Ivy introduced the two. An audition followed, and Sledge was signed to a recording contract. Sledge's soulful voice was perfect for the series of soul ballads produced by Ivy and Marlin Greene, which rock critic Dave Marsh called "emotional classics for romantics of all ages." "When a Man Loves a Woman" was Sledge's first song recorded under the contract, and was released in March 1966. The song's inspiration came when Sledge's girlfriend left him for a modeling career after he was laid off from a construction job in late 1965. Because bassist Calvin Lewis and organist Andrew Wright helped him with the song, he gave all the songwriting credits to them. It reached #1 i…