Take Time to Know Her

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

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]

Contents

Track listing

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

Singles

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