Love takes time
| Love takes time | |
|---|---|
| Mariah Carey | |
| publication | September 11, 1990 |
| length | 3:49 |
| Genre (s) | Pop , R&B , Adult Contemporary |
| Author (s) | Mariah Carey, Ben Margulies |
| album | Mariah Carey |
Love Takes Time is a song by the American singer Mariah Carey . The song was written by her and Ben Margulies and produced by Walter Afanasieff . It appeared on Carey's debut album Mariah Carey (1990). The song was released as the second single on the album in the third quarter of 1990. It was the first of a few adult contemporary- influenced Carey ballads to be released as a single. In the song, the protagonist separates from her boyfriend, the protagonist is unhappy and after a long time her love for her ex-boyfriend returns. In the United States and Canada, the song Mariah Carey's second number one hit, but in other countries the single could not celebrate any major success.
background
Mariah Carey's debut album was completed after she wrote Love Takes Time with Ben Marguiles . Marguiles said, “We quickly made a demo recording. It was a piano vocal recording - I played the piano and Mariah Carey sang. "
On a mini tour, Carey presented the acoustic piano version with three background singers. Mariah Carey later introduced Love Takes Time to Columbia Records President Don Ienner. “Everyone important was involved,” Marguiles recalls. "Tommy Mottola, Ienner and Bobby Colomby." Carey described the song as a "career maker" and it should appear on her debut album.
Mariah Carey gave the demo recording to producer Walter Afanasieff . When Carey flew to California to work with Narada Michael Walden on more songs from their debut album, Tommy Mottola and Don Ienner were impressed with Afanasieff's work as a producer and gave him a job as a producer at Columbia Records.
“One day he (Tommy) calls me,” Afanasieff recalls. “He said, 'We have to finish the Mariah Carey album, but there is a song that she wrote with Ben Marguiles, the song is phenomenal and I will try everything to get the song on the album. I said 'what should I do for you?' and he said 'You only have a few days but are you ready to produce the song?' I couldn't believe that this was my chance to become a producer. I never produced anything real until that time. "
According to Afanasieff, the demo recording was exactly what Mottola wanted. “We produced the music in a day. We had to produce the song that day or it wouldn't have appeared on Carey's debut album. We took the recording and produced everything, then took a plane to New York City where we recorded Carey's vocals in a studio. Carey has been preparing for her vocal recording all night. Her singing was recorded on several tracks, so she also took over the background vocals on her own. "
When the album was released, Love Takes Time was not listed on some CDs and tapes. "On some of the first copies of the album, there wasn't enough time to put the name of the song on the album," laughs Marguiles. "That's the song on the album, but the tracklist doesn't say the song is on the album."
Music video
The music video was directed by Jeb Brien and Walter Maser. In the music video, Mariah Carey walks on a beach after her boyfriend left her. The music video was shot in Venice Beach , Los Angeles . The music video did not appear on Carey's video album # 1’s (1999), instead the song was performed live at the Proctor's Theater in New York City in 1993.
Cover versions
- 2007: Mau Marcelo
- 2003: Kelly Clarkson
success
Love Takes Time became another chart success for Mariah Carey. The song was able to build on the success of her debut single Vision of Love and became her second number one hit in the United States. Overall, the song spent three weeks at number 1 from November 10th to November 24th, 1990. For 17 weeks, the song stayed in the American Top 40 and was even awarded a gold record in the USA due to the large sales figures. Due to its great success, the song made it into the annual charts in the United States two years in a row (1990 and 1991): in 1990 the song was placed at 76 and in 1991 at 69.
Outside the United States, Love Takes Time only had chart successes in Canada, where the song also became Mariah Carey's second number one hit. Love Takes Time reached the top ten in New Zealand, but could only reach the top 40 in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands and only number 57 in Germany.
The song won two BMI awards in the R&B award for song of the year and the songwriter award.
Placements
| Chart (1990) | Peak position |
|---|---|
 Germany
|
57 |
 United Kingdom
|
37 |
 United States
|
1 |
Annual charts
| Charts (1990) | placement |
|---|---|
|
United States
|
76 |
| Charts (1991) | placement |
|
United States
|
69 |
Awards
| country | Awards |
|---|---|
|
United States ( RIAA )
|
gold |
Individual evidence
- ^ "Hero" inside story. ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ German Singles Chart ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ UK Singles Chart
- ↑ Artist Chart History - Mariah Carey ( Memento from April 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Billboard Top 100 - 1990 . Retrieved September 15, 2009.
- ^ Billboard Top 100 - 1991 . Retrieved September 15, 2009.
- ↑ Gold & Platinum> Search Results . Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved January 25, 2010.
