Give Me Just a Little More Time

"Give Me Just a Little More Time" is the debut single for Chairmen of the Board, released in 1970 through Capitol Records on Holland–Dozier–Holland's Invictus Records label.

"Give Me Just a Little More Time"
Single by Chairmen of the Board
from the album The Chairmen of the Board
B-side"Since the Days of Pigtails & Fairytales"
ReleasedJanuary 1970
RecordedHDH Studios, Detroit, Michigan, 1969
GenreSoul
Length2:40
LabelInvictus
9074
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Holland-Dozier-Holland
Chairmen of the Board singles chronology
"Give Me Just a Little More Time"
(1970)		 "(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String"
(1970)

The song was written and produced by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Jr., and Ron 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 singer General Johnson as the narrator, 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 recordings.

"Give Me Just a Little More Time", backed with "Since the Days of Pigtails & Fairytales", peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, making it the best-performing of the Chairmen's singles, and the first of the Chairmen's four Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 pop hits. The single also peaked at number-eight on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. It reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in September 1970, having already sold more than one million copies in the US.[1] The first Chairmen of the Board LP, a self-titled release, included the single; after the single's success, the Chairmen of the Board album was reissued as Give Me Just a Little More Time.

In 1982, American R&B singer Angela Clemmons remade the song and it peaked at #4 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart.

Personnel

The Funk Brothers who played on "Give Me Just A Little More Time" included:

Chart history

Kylie Minogue version
"Give Me Just a Little More Time"
Single by Kylie Minogue
from the album Let's Get to It
B-side"Do You Dare?"
Released13 January 1992
RecordedLondon, England
GenrePop
Length3:07
LabelPWL
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Kylie Minogue singles chronology
"Keep on Pumpin' It"
(1991)		 "Give Me Just a Little More Time"
(1992)		 "Finer Feelings"
(1992)
Music video
"Give Me Just a Little More Time" on YouTube

"Give Me Just a Little More Time" was covered in 1992 by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. Minogue's version was featured in a commercial for Accurist watches at the time. It was one of the last tracks to be recorded for her fourth album, Let's Get to It. It peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, assisted by its techno oriented B-side "Do You Dare?" and sold 325,000 copies.[8] "Give Me Just a Little More Time" was later added to Minogue's 1992 compliation album Greatest Hits. Additionally, it is the only song from Let's Get to It to be included on Minogue's career-spanning compilations Ultimate Kylie, The Best of Kylie Minogue and the standard version of Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection. The B-side "Do You Dare?" was included on Minogue's Greatest Remixes (Vol. 2), and was performed on her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour, Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour, and For 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."[9]

He was working in the middle of the night when he ran downstairs to his record label to find the track. The song was played to Minogue the next morning.[9][10]

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Give Me Just a Little More Time."[11]

UK CD Single (PWCD212)

  1. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" — 3:07
  2. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" (Extended Version) — 4:33
  3. "Do You Dare?" (NRG Mix) — 7:04
  4. "Do You Dare?" (New Rave Mix) — 6:40

UK 7" Vinyl Single (PWL212)

  1. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" — 3:07
  2. "Do You Dare?" (NRG Edit) — 3:17

UK 12" Vinyl Single (PWLT212)

  1. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" (Extended Version) — 4:33
  2. "Do You Dare?" (NRG Mix) — 7:04
  3. "Do You Dare?" (New Rave Mix) — 6:40

UK iTunes Bundle

  1. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" — 3:07
  2. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" (Extended Version) — 4:33
  3. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" (Instrumental) — 3:05
  4. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" (Backing Track) — 3:06
  5. "Do You Dare?" (NRG Mix) — 7:04
  6. "Do You Dare?" (New Rave Mix) — 6:40
  7. "Do You Dare?" (Italia 12" Mix) — 5:22
  8. "Do You Dare?" (NRG Edit) — 3:17
  9. "Do You Dare?" (New Rave Instrumental) — 6:38

Charts and sales

Live Performances

Minogue performed the song on the following concert tours:

References
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  10. Simon Duke (5 November 2014). "Kylie Minogue: A look back to some of Kylie's early-90s hits ahead of her Metro Radio Arena show". ChronicleLive. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  11. Mix Kylie (January 1992). "Formats and track listings". Retrieved 31 July 2010.
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