Take It Like You Give It

Take It Like You Give It
Studio album by Aretha Franklin
Released	April 4, 1967
Genre	Soul, R&B
Length	26:42
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)
Singles from Take It Like You Give It
"Lee Cross" Released: 1967[1]

Take It Like You Give It is the ninth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released in 1967 by Columbia Records.^[2]

Due to her worsening relations with Columbia Records in late 1966, this was the last album of Franklin's on the label to only feature previously unreleased songs.^[1]

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

• 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