| Take My Time | ||||
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| Studio album by Sheena Easton | ||||
| Released | 18 January 1981 [1] | |||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Pop, | |||
| Label | EMI/EMI America | |||
| Producer | Christopher Neil | |||
| Sheena Easton chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic | [2] |
Take My Time is the debut album by UK pop singer Sheena Easton. Released in January 1981, the album reached #17 in the UK and earned her a Gold Disc.[1] Two months later, the album was released in the US as Sheena Easton, where it also went gold.[3] The album went platinum in Canada.
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After becoming suddenly famous due to her appearance on a television documentary in 1980 and with the hits “9 To 5” (which went gold) and “Modern Girl”, Easton began recording her debut album with producer Christopher Neil. The style of the album was a combination of pure pop (“Take My Time” and “Voice on the Radio”) and sentimental ballads (“When He Shines” and “No-One Ever Knows”). The album charted in February 1981, just as Easton was finding fame in the US when “9 to 5” (retitled “Morning Train (Nine to Five)” to avoid confusion with a record by Dolly Parton called "9 To 5") took her to No. 1 in the charts there.
In the UK, the album met with favourable response by reaching No. 17 and spent 19 weeks on the charts.[4] In the US, it was released two months later and also made the top 30. By May 1981, three more singles were released from the collection, namely; “One Man Woman”, “Take My Time” and “When He Shines”. The latter being a song she had performed at the Royal Variety Performance in November 1980, and was left off the US version of the album (to be later included on her second album). With four of the singles reaching the top 20 in the UK (the title track reached a lower #44), Easton became the first female artist to score five top 50 hits from an album.[5]
In the US, the album was simply titled Sheena Easton and included only two singles (“Morning Train“ and “Modern Girl”) before Easton was to chart highly with a new song, the James Bond theme, “For Your Eyes Only”; however "When He Shines" was released as a single from Sheena's second US album. Easton quickly became a staple on Adult Contemporary radio, where "Morning Train" also hit No. 1 and "Modern Girl" reached the top 10, both in 1981.
Producer Christopher Neil continued to work with Easton and produced her following two albums in a similar vein, before Easton decided to leave behind the pure-pop image she had gained.
Take My Time was re-released on Compact disc in the US on 19 June 1999 with bonus tracks by One Way Records. The UK version of the album was re-released on CD on 19 October 2009 with bonus tracks by Cherry Red Records.[6]
| Original release date | Single title | UK [5] |
US [7] |
JP [7] |
AUS [7] |
IRL [7] |
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| February 1980 | "Modern Girl" | 8 | 18 | 18 | 24 | 10 |
| May 1980 | "9 to 5" / "Morning Train (9 to 5)" | 3 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 2 |
| October 1980 | "One Man Woman" | 14 | 5 | |||
| February 1981 | "Take My Time" | 44 | ||||
| April 1981 | "When He Shines" | 12 | 30 | 9 |
| Original release date | Album title | UK | US | JP | AUS | CAN |
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| January 1981 | Take My Time / Sheena Easton | 17 | 23 | 4 | 57 | 9 |
| Country | Certification | Sales |
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| United Kingdom[1] | Gold | 100,000 |
| United States[3] | Gold | 500,000 |
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