It's Going to Take Some Time

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“It's Going to Take Some Time”
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Single by The Carpenters
from the album A Song for You
A-side "It's Going to Take Some Time"
B-side "Flat Baroque"
Released April 13, 1972
Format 7" single
Recorded Winter 1972
Genre Pop
Length 02:58
Label A&M Records
1351
Writer(s) Carole King; Toni Stern
Producer Jack Daugherty
The Carpenters singles chronology
"Hurting Each Other" (1971) "It's Going to Take Some Time"/"Flat Baroque" (1972) "Goodbye to Love" (1972)
A Song for You track listing
Side one
  1. "A Song for You"
  2. "Top of the World"
  3. "Hurting Each Other"
  4. "It's Going to Take Some Time"
  5. "Goodbye to Love"
  6. "Intermission"
Side two
  1. "Bless the Beasts and Children"
  2. "Flat Baroque"
  3. "Piano Picker"
  4. "I Won't Last a Day Without You"
  5. "Crystal Lullaby"
  6. "Road Ode"
  7. "A Song for You (Reprise)"

It's Going to Take Some Time is a song written by Carole King and Toni Stern for her 1971 Music album. It was redone by the Carpenters in 1972 for their fourth album, A Song for You. According to Richard Carpenter, he had to choose which songs he wanted to remake, and there was a big pile of 7" singles he had to listen to. When he encountered "It's Going to Take Some Time", he knew it would be a hit, and recorded it. It peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Chart Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 12
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 2
Record World 13
Canadian Singles Chart 13
Oricon (Japanese) Singles Chart 48
UK Singles Chart -
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The Carpenters
Karen Carpenter · Richard Carpenter
Discography
Ticket to Ride (1969) · Close to You (1970) · Carpenters (1971) · A Song for You (1972) · Now & Then (1973) · The Singles: 1969-1973 (1973) · Horizon (1975) · A Kind of Hush (1976) · Live at the Palladium (1976) · Passage (1977) · The Singles: 1974-1978 (1978) · Made in America (1981) · Voice of the Heart (1983) · Lovelines (1989) · As Time Goes By (2004)
Videography
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