''Take Me with You'' is the debut studio
album by American
R&B girl group
A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of who ...
the
Honey Cone. It was released by
Hot Wax/
Invictus Records in 1970 (see
1970 in music
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Album information
Introducing the world to the unique soulful spunk that was Honey Cone was what "Take Me with You" achieved. Their lead single "While You're Out Looking for Sugar," (released in 1969) sums up both the lyrical and musical approach that made the band so distinctive. The song, among many other's in their catalogue, was about a cheating man and his girlfriend (the protagonist) declaring to him that someone better will steal her from him while he's out "looking for sugar." The song along with album favorites "Girls It Ain't Easy" and "Sunday Morning People" takes on what becomes a familiar scolding tone that a lot of Honey Cone songs carry with titles and lyrics that use old sayings and cliches to convey the feeling of heartbreak or female-empowerment. "Sunday Morning People" addresses hypocritical Christian's who "go to church on Sunday" and "hate your neighbor all week." Like most albums of its time, there are a couple of cover songs present here. Covers include "
Aquarius" the 1969 number one hit by
The 5th Dimension from the musical ''
Hair
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'' and the
Dusty Springfield classic "
Son of a Preacher Man". Although many songs were officially credited to
Ronald Dunbar
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and Edyth Wayne, the newly departed Motown songwriting team
Holland-Dozier-Holland (
Eddie Holland, Jr.,
Lamont Dozier and
Brian Holland) was the party behind the Edyth Wayne pseudonym and was responsible for the greater bulk of songs by Honey Cone and other
Hot Wax artists.
Track listing
References
External links
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Discogs
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1970 debut albums
Albums produced by Brian Holland
Albums produced by Edward Holland Jr.
Albums produced by Lamont Dozier
Hot Wax Records albums
Buddah Records albums