It's Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer

"It's Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer"
Single by Charley Pride
from the album A Sunshine Day with Charley Pride
B-side "You're Wanting Me To Stop Loving You"
Released May 1972
Format 7"
Recorded January 12, 1972
Genre Country
Length 2:39
Label RCA 74-0707
Writer(s) Ben Peters
Producer(s) Jack Clement
Charley Pride singles chronology
"All His Children"
(1972)
"It's Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer"
(1972)
"She's Too Good to Be True"
(1972)

"It's Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer" is a song written by Ben Peters, and recorded by American country music artist Charley Pride. It was released in May 1972 as the first single from the album A Sunshine Day with Charley Pride. "It's Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer" was Charley Pride's ninth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for three weeks and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart.[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1972) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 2
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 276.

External links

Preceded by
"Made in Japan"
by Buck Owens
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single

July 22-August 5, 1972
Succeeded by
"Bless Your Heart"
by Freddie Hart
Preceded by
"Reach Out Your Hand (And Touch Somebody)"
by Tammy Wynette
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

July 29, 1972
Succeeded by
"Listen to a Country Song"
by Lynn Anderson
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