| "Give Me Just a Little More Time" | ||||
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| Single byChairmen of the Board | ||||
| from the albumThe Chairmen of the Board | ||||
| B-side | "Since the Days of Pigtails & Fairytales" | |||
| Released | January 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 1969 | |||
| Studio | HDH Studios, Detroit, Michigan | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Length | 2:40 | |||
| Label | Invictus | |||
| Songwriters | ||||
| Producer | Holland-Dozier-Holland | |||
| Chairmen of the Board singles chronology | ||||
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"Give Me Just a Little More Time" is the debut single by American-Canadiansoul musicgroupChairmen of the Board, released in 1970 throughCapitol Records onHolland–Dozier–Holland'sInvictus Records label.
"Give Me Just a Little More Time", backed with "Since the Days of Pigtails & Fairytales", peaked at No. 3 on theBillboard Hot 100 in the United States, making it the best-performing of the Chairmen's singles, and the first of the Chairmen's fourBillboard Hot 100 top 40 pop hits. The single also peaked at No. 8 on theBillboardR&B Singles chart. It sold more than one million copies in the US. In the United Kingdom, the song reached No. 3 on theUK Singles Chart in September 1970.[1] The first Chairmen of the Board LP, a self-titled release, included the single; after the single's success, theChairmen of the Board album was reissued asGive Me Just a Little More Time.
The song was written and produced byBrian Holland,Lamont Dozier,Edward Holland, Jr., andRon Dunbar. Because of the then still-pending lawsuit against Holland-Dozier-Holland from their former employers,Motown, the trio credited themselves with the pseudonym "Edythe Wayne" for this song and many other early Invictus/Hot Wax releases.
"Give Me Just a Little More Time" features Chairmen of the Board lead singerGeneral Johnson as the narrator, (backed by group members Danny Woods, Harrison Kennedy and Eddie Custis) begging a sweetheart not to rush intimacy: "We both want the sweetness in life/ But these things don't come overnight." Members of Motown's in-house band,The Funk Brothers, who played all of Holland-Dozier-Holland's previous hits, played on this recording as well as many other Invictus/Hot Wax productions.
Weekly charts[edit]
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[8] | Gold | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
According to the book,Sh-Boom! The Explosion of Rock 'n' Roll (1953-1968) by Clay Cole, "Give Me Just a Little More Time" is one of the songs that has exploitedbeach music and kept it alive through the decades.[9]
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| Single byKylie Minogue | ||||
| from the albumLet's Get to It | ||||
| B-side | "Do You Dare?" | |||
| Released | January 13, 1992 (1992-01-13) | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 3:07 | |||
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| "Give Me Just a Little More Time" onYouTube | ||||
"Give Me Just a Little More Time" was covered in 1992 by Australian pop singerKylie Minogue. Minogue's version was featured in a then-current commercial forAccurist watches. It was one of the last tracks to be recorded for her fourth album,Let's Get to It (1991). It peaked at number two on theUK Singles Chart, assisted by its techno orientedB-side "Do You Dare?" and sold 325,000 copies.[10]
"Give Me Just a Little More Time" was later added to Minogue's 1992 compilation albumGreatest Hits. Additionally, it is the only song fromLet's Get to It to be included on Minogue's career-spanning compilationsUltimate Kylie,The Best of Kylie Minogue and the standard version ofStep Back in Time: The Definitive Collection. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" was performed in various television shows at the time of release, but it was not included on theLet's Get to It Tour. The first performance of the song in a tour would be on theAnti Tour in 2012. The B-side "Do You Dare?" was included on Minogue'sGreatest Remixes (Vol. 2), and was mixed on the "Everything Taboo" medley on herShowgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour,Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour, andFor You, for Me concert tours.Pete Waterman stated:
I went to bed, and, and I literally was in bed thinking of all these records that I had in my life [...] I was going through the library mentally thinking, what song would she never have done that we could do that was just a great song. And one of my favorite songs was Chairman of the Board's "Give Me Just a Little More Time."[11]
He ran downstairs to his record label to find the track. The song was played to Minogue the next morning.[11][12]
Betty Page fromNME wrote, "Indeed, she makes a highly passable stab at the beseechingChairmen of the Board classic 'Give Me Just a Little More Time', and even gets to do aballad with just an acoustic guitar for help."[13] In 2023, Robert Moran of Australian daily tabloid newspaperThe Sydney Morning Herald ranked the song as Minogue's 166th best song (out of 183), adding that "no one needs this".[14]
These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Give Me Just a Little More Time".[15]
Weekly charts[edit]
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United Kingdom | — | 325,000[28] |
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
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| United Kingdom | January 13, 1992 | — | PWL | [citation needed] |
| Japan | February 21, 1992 | CD | [29] | |
| Australia | March 30, 1992 |
| Mushroom | [30] |
