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Take It Like You Give It
Studio album by
Released1967
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)

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

  • Robert Mersey - conductor on "Why Was I Born?", "Tighten Up Your Tie, Button Up Your Jacket (Make It for the Door)" and "Lee Cross", producer on "Lee Cross"
  • Belford Hendricks - conductor on "Land of Dreams" and "A Little Bit of Soul"
  • Bob Johnston - producer on "Why Was I Born?" and "Tighten Up Your Tie, Button Up Your Jacket (Make It for the Door)"
  • Bobby Scott - producer on "I May Never Get to Heaven"
  • Clyde Otis - producer on tracks A4, A6, B1 to B5
  • Vernon Smith - cover photography

References

  1. ^ Strong, Martin C. (1998). The Great Rock Discography. Edinburgh: Canongate Books. pp. 281–282. ISBN  0-86241-827-5.