Take Time to Know Her is an album by Percy Sledge. It was originally released on Atlantic Records 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.[1][2][3]

Take Time to Know Her
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1968[1]
Length34:42
LabelAtlantic
ProducerMarlin Greene, Quin Ivy
Percy Sledge chronology
The Percy Sledge Way
(1966)
Take Time to Know Her
(1968)
My Special Prayer
(1969)

Track listing

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A Side
  1. "Take Time to Know Her" (Steve Davis) 2:55
  2. "Feed The Flame" (Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham) 2:20
  3. "Sudden Stop" (Bobby Russell) 2:45
  4. "Come Softly To Me" (Barbara Ellis, Gary Troxel, Gretchen Christopher) 2:55
  5. "Spooky" (Buddy Buie, Harry Middlebrooks, J. R. Cobb, Mike Sharpe) 2:50
  6. Out of Left Field" (Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham) 3:09
B Side
  1. "Cover Me" (Eddie Hinton, Marlin Greene) 2:56
  2. "Baby Help Me" (Bobby Womack) 2:30
  3. "It's All Wrong But It's Alright" (Eddie Hinton, Marlin Greene) 2:53
  4. "High Cost of Leaving" (David Briggs, Donald Fritts) 3:00
  5. "Between These Arms" (Howard Evans, William Jenkins) 2:40
  6. "I Love Everything About You" (Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham) 2:15

Personnel

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  • Marlin Greene, Quin Ivy - production, recording engineers
  • Enoch Gregory - liner notes
  • Loring Eutemey - cover design
  • Joel Brodsky - cover photography

Singles

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  • "Cover Me" / "Behind Every Great Man There Is A Woman" (Released November 1967, reached number 42)[1][3]
  • "Take Time to Know Her" / "It's All Wrong But It's Alright" (Released April 1968, reached number 11)[1][3]
  • "Sudden Stop" / "Between These Arms" (Released July 1968, reached number 63)[1][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Strong, Martin Charles (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Canongate U.S. p. 1387. ISBN 1-84195-615-5.
  2. ^ Marsh, Dave (1999). The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. p. 250.
  3. ^ a b c d Whitburn, Joel (2008). Joel Whitburn Presents Across the Charts: The 1960s. Hal Leonard Corp. p. 355. ISBN 0898201756.
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