Take It Like You Give It

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Take It Like You Give It
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 04, 1967
Genre Soul, R&B
Label Columbia
Producer Bob Johnston, Bobby Scott, Clyde Otis, Robert Mersey
Aretha Franklin chronology
Soul Sister
(1966)
Take It Like You Give It
(1967)
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
(1967)
Singles from Take It Like You Give It
  1. "Lee Cross"
    Released: 1967 [1]

Take It Like You Give It is the ninth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released in 1967 by Columbia Records. [2]

Contents

Background

Due to her worsening relations with Columbia Records in late 1966, this was the last album of Franklin's on the label to only feature previously unreleased songs. [1]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 2:52
  2. "I May Never Get to Heaven" (Buddy Killen, Bill Anderson) – 3:27
  3. "Tighten Up Your Tie, Button Up Your Jacket (Make It Easy for the Door)" (Billy Dawn Smith) – 1:58
  4. "Her Little Heart Went to Loveland" (Buddy Kaye, Philip Springer) – 2:34
  5. "Lee Cross" (Ted White) – 2:53
  6. "Take It Like You Give It" (Aretha Franklin) – 1:50

Side Two

  1. "Only the One You Love" (Eddie Snyder, Charles Singleton) – 2:23
  2. "Deeper" (Rudy Clark) – 2:03
  3. "Remember Me" (Van McCoy, Clyde Otis) – 2:12
  4. "Land of Dreams" (Aretha Franklin) – 2:12
  5. "A Little Bit of Soul" (Milton Bland, McKinley Mitchell, David Wilkinson) – 2:18

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Bego, Mark (1989). Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul (1st ed.). St. Martin's Press. p. 75.
  2. Strong, Martin C. (1998). The Great Rock Discography. Edinburgh: Canongate Books. pp. 281–282. ISBN   0-86241-827-5.