Be Altitude: Respect Yourself

CTL-E-5867 · Work · album · 1972

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Combined Graph record U-07120 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5867.

Be Altitude: Respect Yourself is a 1972 soul album by the Staple Singers, released in February 1972 on Stax Records (STS 3002). Craft Recordings, in its 50th Anniversary Edition, describes it as the group's iconic fourth album for Stax. The album was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and produced by Al Bell, with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and the Memphis Horns as the backing musicians. Its ten tracks open with 'This World' and include the two songs that carry the album's title and legacy: 'Respect Yourself,' written by Luther Ingram and Mack Rice, and 'I'll Take You There,' written by Alvertis Isbell, which Craft identifies as a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit. The performing group on the record is the family quartet of Roebuck 'Pops' Staples with Cleotha, Mavis and Yvonne Staples. The remaining tracks include 'Name the Missing Word,' 'This Old Town (People in This Town),' 'We the People,' 'Are You Sure,' 'Who Do You Think You Are? (Jesus Christ the Super Star),' 'I'm Just Another Soldier' and 'Who.'

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• Also known as: Be Altitude

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 8; first Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Be Altitude: Respect Yourself entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5867 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — corpus scan sample, readiness rank 2201 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #292). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — a landmark Stax album by the homed Chicago group the Staple Singers, carrying two canonical recordings. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Released February 1972 on Stax (STS 3002), 10 tracks (Discogs release record); described by Craft Recordings as the Staple Singers' fourth album for Stax, including the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit 'I'll Take You There' (Craft Recordings, 50th Anniversary Edition). MEDIA: Map N/A (Work record). Visual HELD — candidate: the original 1972 Stax LP cover art as reproduced for the Craft Recordings 50th Anniversary Edition, unverified at file-page level. Chart FILLED (Timeline). Video HELD. Audio HELD. MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Work record: maps attach to specific places; an album carries no map spec.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No audio with a verified rights basis was staged in this pass.)

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• Staple Singers — authored by
  Be Altitude: Respect Yourself is a Staple Singers album (Stax STS 3002, February 1972) per the Discogs release record and Craft Recordings. NOTE: the staging brief stated the Staple Singers group entity was absent; it is in fact homed as CTL-E-0039 (Person, subtype group), so the edge is staged to the group rather than to any individual member.

Sources

• Discogs, "The Staple Singers – Be Altitude: Respect Yourself" (release r851610) — supports the Stax label and catalogue number, February 1972 release, and the full ten-track listing with songwriters — https://www.discogs.com/release/851610-The-Staple-Singers-Be-Altitude-Respect-Yourself (build store)
• Craft Recordings, "Be Altitude: Respect Yourself (180g LP)" — supports the 'fourth album for Stax' framing, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and Memphis Horns personnel, and 'I'll Take You There' as a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit — https://craftrecordings.com/collections/the-staple-singers/products/the-staple-singers-be-altitude-respect-yourself-180g-lp (build store)
• Blues & Soul, "The Staple Singers – Be Altitude: Respect Yourself" (2024) — supports the February 14, 1972 release date, Al Bell as producer/arranger, the Muscle Shoals recording, and group personnel — https://www.bluesandsoul.info/2024/07/the-staple-singers-be-altitude-respect.html (build store)

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