CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD - GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME

GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME

CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD

SONGWRITERS: EDYTHE WAYNE & RON DUNBAR

COUNTRY: USA

ALBUM: THE CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD

LABEL: INVICTUS RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1970

Chairmen of the Board is an American-Canadian, Detroit, Michigan-based soul music group, who saw their greatest commercial success in the 1970s.

"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.

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 lover 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. 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.

Give me just a little more time (Give me just a little more time)

And our love will surely grow (Give me just a little more time)

Give me just a little more time (Give me just a little more time)

And our love will surely grow (Give me just a little more time)

Life's too short to make a mistake

Let's think of each other and hesitate

Young and impatient we may be

There's no need to act foolishly

If we part our hearts won't forget it

Years from now we'll surely regret it

Give me just a little more time (Give me just a little more time)

And our love will surely grow (Give me just a little more time)

Give me just a little more time (Give me just a little more time)

And our love will surely grow (Give me just a little more time)

You're young and you're in a hurry

You're eager for love, but don't you worry

We both want the sweetness in life

But these things don't come overnight

Don't give up 'cause love seems slow

Girl, we're gonna succeed with another blow

Just give me just a little more time (Give me just a little more time)

And our love will surely grow (Give me just a little more time)

Baby, please, baby (Give me just a little more time)

Baby, please, baby (Give me just a little more time)

Love is that mountain we must climb

Let's climb it together, your hand in mine

We haven't known each other too long

But the feeling I have is, oh, so strong

I know we can make it, there's no doubt

We owe it to ourselves to find it out

Just give me just a little more time

And our love will surely grow

Give me just a little more time (Give me just a little more time)

And our love will surely grow (Give me just a little more time)

Give me just a little more time (Give me just a little more time)

And our love will surely grow (Give me just a little more time)

Baby, please, baby (Give me just a little more time)

Baby, please, baby (Give me just a little more time).