''Take Time to Know Her'' is an album by
Percy Sledge
Percy Tyrone Sledge (November 25, 1940 – April 14, 2015) was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song " When a Man Loves a Woman", a No. 1 hit on both the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 196 ...
. It was originally released on
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most i ...
in 1968. It was re-released in 1998 on CD. Three singles from the album placed on the ''Billboard'' charts, with the title track reaching number 11.
Track listing
;A Side
# "
Take Time to Know Her" (
Steve Davis
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) 2:55
# "Feed The Flame" (
Dan Penn
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,
Spooner Oldham
Dewey Lindon "Spooner" Oldham (born June 14, 1943) is an American songwriter and session musician. An organist, he recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, at FAME Studios as part of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on such hit R&B songs as Percy ...
) 2:20
# "Sudden Stop" (
Bobby Russell
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) 2:45
# "Come Softly To Me" (Barbara Ellis, Gary Troxel, Gretchen Christopher) 2:55
# "
Spooky
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*DJ Spooky, musician and producer
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" (
Buddy Buie
Perry Carlton "Buddy" Buie (January 23, 1941 – July 18, 2015) was an American songwriter, producer and publisher. He is most commonly associated with Roy Orbison, the Classics IV and the Atlanta Rhythm Section.
Career
Buie was born in Marian ...
, Harry Middlebrooks,
J. R. Cobb
James Barney Cobb Jr. (February 5, 1944 – May 4, 2019) was an American guitarist and songwriter, most notable for co-writing "Spooky (Classics IV song), Spooky", "Stormy (song), Stormy" and "Traces (song), Traces", among others, as a member of ...
, Mike Sharpe) 2:50
# Out of Left Field" (Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham) 3:09
;B Side
# "Cover Me" (
Eddie Hinton
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, Marlin Greene) 2:56
# "Baby Help Me" (
Bobby Womack
Robert Dwayne Womack (; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guit ...
) 2:30
# "It's All Wrong But It's Alright" (Eddie Hinton, Marlin Greene) 2:53
# "High Cost of Leaving" (
David Briggs,
Donald Fritts) 3:00
# "Between These Arms" (Howard Evans, William Jenkins) 2:40
# "I Love Everything About You" (Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham) 2:15
Personnel
*Marlin Greene, Quin Ivy - production, recording engineers
*Enoch Gregory - liner notes
*Loring Eutemey - cover design
*
Joel Brodsky
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- cover photography
Singles
* "Cover Me" / "Behind Every Great Man There Is A Woman" (Released November 1967, reached number 42)
* "
Take Time to Know Her" / "It's All Wrong But It's Alright" (Released April 1968, reached number 11)
* "Sudden Stop" / "Between These Arms" (Released July 1968, reached number 63)
References
External links
*
Take Time to Know Her' at last.fm
*
1968 albums
Atlantic Records albums
Albums with cover art by Joel Brodsky
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