Take Me for a Little While (Radio Edit) They wound up peaking at No. The album's musicians included Toto members David Hungate, Steve Lukather and Greg Phillinganes, and also Lee Ritenour and Buzz Feiten. [2] Ross was unaware of the duplicity involved, and left Chess shortly afterwards. Sands' last single release on Cameo-Parkway was "Billy Sunshine" in January 1968, which reached number 133 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart before Cameo's demise. A new album, "Queen Of Diamonds / Jack Of Hearts" - Billy Vera & Evie Sands - singing new songs of Chip Taylor, was released September 9, 2014, on Taylor's Train Wreck label. That same year, Sands debuted on Cameo-Parkway and continued the pattern of songs introduced by her becoming successful for other artists. Evie Sands was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a musical family. Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. Coverdale/Page: Take Me for a Little While (Video 1993) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The vocalists backing Sands included Toto frontman Bobby Kimball, Bill Champlin of Chicago and, on the track "Lady of the Night", Dusty Springfield. Sands continues to write and perform. Additional musicians and singers included, Sands-electric guitar, acoustic guitar and backing vocals, Sheila E.-percussion, Robben Ford-electric guitar, Vicki Randle and Linda Tillery-backing vocals. 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She appeared on that band's 2007 live CD Long Promised Road: Songs of Dennis and Carl Wilson, on which she sang several lead vocals, including the first-ever released recording of Dennis Wilson's "Wouldn't It Be Nice to Live Again." [10][11][12] A new full-length record titled Get Out of Your Own Way has been announced for release in 2020. In 1967, Sands' version of the Chip Taylor-penned "Angel of the Morning" got caught up in the label's business problems. Prior to its release, a test pressing of Sands' recording was stolen by a Chicago-based record promoter, who took it to established Chess recording artist Jackie Ross, who was coming off the major pop-soul hit "Selfish One". A No. Dusty Springfield. Sands' debut album, also named Any Way That You Want Me, was released on A&M in 1970,[5] several months after the single had peaked. by Evie Sands (1965), First release She experienced a fashionable, UK-led surge in cult popularity beginning in the 1990s and returned to live performance in mid-1998. Playing via … Sands went on to perform her own solo material as well as performing as the lead guitar player in eclectic Los Angeles based group, Adam Marsland's Chaos Band. [3], In 1969 Sands finally scored with the A&M single "Any Way That You Want Me", a Chip Taylor composition previously recorded by both the American Breed and the Troggs in 1966. Her mother was a singer, and Sands grew up listening to artists like Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Wilson, Little Willie John and The Beatles. [5] A more rootsy project than the blue-eyed soul of her late 1960s-1970s output, the album consisted of various Sands-Taylor-Gorgoni originals, including a duet with Lucinda Williams on the track "Cool Blues Story". Take Me for a Little While by Evie Sands (1965) Soul / Funk / Disco Verified Facts and Stories Do you know an interesting fact or story about this track? She began her career as a teenager in the mid-1960s. Coverdale/Page perform in the music video "Take Me for a Little While" from the album "Coverdale/Page" recorded for Geffen Records. [9] A new 6-song EP, "Shine For Me" was released April 22, 2017, on R-Spot Records. Managed by CarlDennis, First recording Sands made her recorded debut as a songwriter on the album with "It's This I Am" – covered years later by Beck and Beth Orton, respectively. She also did extensive vocal and guitar work on Marsland's 2009 double CD Go West, including lead vocals on one track. "Take Me in Your Arms" gave the Doobie Brothers their only chart hit in France, where it reached number 37. After the reconnection with Taylor, Sands returned to performing in 1998. By the time Chess withdrew the Ross single from the marketplace, Sands' version hit number 114 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles but only really broke through in the few cities—such as Los Angeles—that had stayed "on the fence", waiting to see which version to play. Produced by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, the album marked Sands' continued output as a songwriter, also collaborating with Richard Germinaro and veteran songwriter Ben Weisman. Take Me for a Little While (Acoustic) 3. Two tracks from the album, Lambert and Potter's "You Brought The Woman Out Of Me" and the Sands-Weisman-Germinaro collaboration "I Love Makin' Love To You", both approached major hit status. © 2003-2021 With Coverdale/Page, David Coverdale, Jimmy Page. written by Trade Martin Also in 1969, Sands recorded "Maybe Tomorrow", composed by Quincy Jones with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, for the film John and Mary. Karen Carpenter recorded two of Sands' songs for her solo album, but they remained unreleased. Sands' music career spans more than 50 years. She was inspired by these artists to learn keyboard and guitar and to develop her own ability as a singer and songwriter. Evie Sands (born July 18, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Sands married Richard Germinaro on June 14, 1971, in Los Angeles[13] but they later divorced. Instead, the 1975 release Estate of Mind on the Capitol Haven label ended Sands' five-year absence from recording. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1965 Vinyl release of "Take Me For A Little While" on Discogs. The company issued the album Suspended Animation, produced by Sands and Michael Stewart in spring 1979,[7] though Sands had actually begun working with co-producer Michael Stewart in May 1977. Despite not having kept actively in touch through the previous years, the experience was so successful that the two re-ignited their collaboration, along with Al Gorgoni, resulting in the critically acclaimed Women In Prison LP, which was released in 1999 (and again in 2000) on Taylor's Train Wreck records. 50. Label: Atlantic - 45-2373 • Format: Vinyl 45 RPM, 7 Patti LaBelle And The Bluebelles* - Take Me For A Little While (1967, Vinyl) | Discogs The subsequent legal struggle set back Sands' career before it had had a chance to get started. From the Album The Look Of Love Listen Now Buy song $1.29. After a rocky start, she eventually found chart success in 1969, before retiring from performing in 1979 to concentrate on writing and production. [6] Sands would see the latter included on the ButterFly album by Barbra Streisand. Despite the single being one of the most-requested radio songs wherever played, and the initial 10,000 copies selling out, the label's pending bankruptcy aborted the record's potential success; a few months later, then unknown Merrilee Rush scored a top-ten single with the song. After a final 1976 single release on Haven, a remake of "The Way You Do the Things You Do", Sands next release was on RCA. 53 on the Hot 100 and tied with Don Ho's "Tiny Bubbles" for most weeks (17) on that chart in the 1960s with a sub-50 peak.[4]. Backed by the marketing and promotional muscle of Chess, and with Ross' name attached, this version received the lion's share of airplay. The first single, "If You Give Up," which features Willie Aron (formerly of Translator) and Isobel Campbell (formerly of Belle & Sebastian) was released in April 2020. The album was recorded and mixed in San Francisco, California at The Automatt.[8]. The record reached No. SecondHandSongs is building the most comprehensive source of cover song information. She cut her first singles by her mid-teens: "The Roll / My Dog" (ABC 10458/1963), "Danny Boy" "I Love You So" / "I Was Moved" (Gold 215/1964).[1].