Take It Easy (Crystal Gayle song)

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"Take It Easy"
Single by Crystal Gayle
from the album These Days
B-side "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City"
ReleasedJanuary 1981 (1981-01)
RecordedMay 1980
Nashville, Tennessee, US
Genre
Length3:58
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Delbert McClinton
Producer(s) Allen Reynolds
Crystal Gayle singles chronology
"If You Ever Change Your Mind"
(1980)
"Take It Easy"
(1981)
"Too Many Lovers"
(1981)

"Take It Easy" is a song performed by American country music artist Crystal Gayle. It was released in January 1981 as the second single from the album These Days . The song reached #17 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written and originally recorded by Delbert McClinton on his 1978 album, Second Wind.

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Background

Gayle recorded "Take It Easy" in May 1980 at the Columbia Recording Studio, located in Nashville, Tennessee. Other tracks recorded at the session were "If You Ever Change Your Mind" and "Too Many Lovers". The session was produced by Allen Reynolds. [1]

"Take It Easy" was officially released as a single in January 1981 and peaked at number seventeen on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart later that year. [2] The song also peaked in the third position on the Canadian RPM Country Songs chart, becoming a larger hit in Canada. [3]

Track listings

7" vinyl single [4]

Weekly charts

Chart (1981)Peak
position
Canada Country Songs ( RPM) [3] 3
US Hot Country Singles ( Billboard ) [2] 17

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References

  1. "Praguefrank's Country Discography 2: Crystal Gayle". Praguefrank's Country Discographies. 2 April 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research.
  3. 1 2 "Canadian country search results for "Crystal Gayle"". RPM. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  4. "Crystal Gayle - Take It Easy (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs . 1980. Retrieved 31 July 2016.