Take Me with You

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Take Me with You
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Studio album by Honey Cone
Released April 21, 1970
Genre R&B, soul, funk
Length30:08
Label Hot Wax
HA-701
Producer Holland-Dozier-Holland, Greg Perry
Honey Cone chronology
Take Me with You
(1970)		 Sweet Replies
(1971)
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Take Me with You is the debut studio album by American R&B/Soul/Funk Girl group the Honey Cone. It was released by Hot Wax/Invictus Records in 1970 (see 1970 in music).

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, economics, and aspirations.

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz. Soul music became popular for dancing and listening in the United States, where record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music and the music of Africa.

Contents

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 and the Dusty Springfield classic "Son of a Preacher Man". Although many songs were officially credited to Ronald Dunbar 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.

Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In single

"Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In " is a medley of two songs written for the 1967 musical Hair by James Rado and Gerome Ragni (lyrics), and Galt MacDermot (music), released as a single by American R&B group The 5th Dimension. The song peaked at number one for six weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in the spring of 1969. The single topped the American pop charts and was eventually certified platinum in the US by the RIAA. Instrumental backing was written by Bill Holman and provided by session musicians commonly known as the Wrecking Crew. The actual recording is something of a "rarity"; the song was recorded in two cities, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, then mixed together in the studio.

The 5th Dimension American popular music vocal group

The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire includes pop, R&B, soul, jazz, light opera and Broadway—the melange was coined as "Champagne Soul".

<i>Hair</i> (musical) Musical about the Vietnam war

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy. The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of "rock musical", using a racially integrated cast, and inviting the audience onstage for a "Be-In" finale.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Sunday Morning People"Ronald Dunbar, Edyth Wayne2:41
2."Son of a Preacher Man"John D. Hurley, Ronnie S. Wilkins2:27
3."Take Me with You"Ronald Dunbar, Edyth Wayne2:58
4."Girls It Ain't Easy"Ronald Dunbar, Edyth Wayne3:11
5."You Made Me So Very Happy" Berry Gordy, Jr., Frank Wilson, Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway 3:16
6."Are You Man Enough, Are You Strong Enough?"Ronald Dunbar, Edyth Wayne3:15
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."Aquarius" James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot 2:55
8."Take My Love"Greg Perry, Ronald Dunbar2:52
9."While You're Out Looking for Sugar"Ronald Dunbar, Edyth Wayne3:13
10."My Mind's on Leaving But My Heart Won't Let Me Go"Ronald Dunbar, Edyth Wayne2:55
11."The Feeling's Gone"Ronald Dunbar, Edyth Wayne2:49

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References

  1. ↑ Kik, Quint. Take Me with You review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-03-18.
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