Give Me Just a Little More Time – Chairman of The Board (1970)

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Additional information about this, Chairman of The Board vinyl art.

Chairman of The Board – The Artist

General Johnson (1941–2010) had a hit as the lead singer of The Showmen in the early 1960s,[with the New Orleans rock and roll anthem “It Will Stand” and Carolina Beach classic “39-21-40 Shape”. When Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown in 1967 to establish their own Invictus/Hot Wax group of record labels, they teamed Johnson up with Eddie Custis, Danny Woods and Canadian-born Harrison Kennedy as the new company’s flagship act, under the name Chairmen of the Board. Custis left the group after their second album. Although they all had a turn at lead vocals, it was Johnson’s quirky hiccup-laden style and his songwriting that became increasingly showcased, with the group selling a million plus copies of their single, “Give Me Just a Little More Time”.Chairmen of the Board also charted with “(You’ve Got Me) Dangling on a String”, “Everything’s Tuesday”, “Pay to the Piper”, “Finders Keepers” and (in the UK) “Working on a Building of Love” and “Elmo James”. Kennedy, Woods and Johnson all went on to record solo albums, whilst Johnson wrote and produced (with Greg Perry) for other Invictus/Hot Wax acts, notably Honey Cone.[3] Kennedy having left, Johnson and Woods toured the UK in 1976 with six musicians as Chairmen of the Board. The final night of the tour was at Middleton Civic Hall on March 11, 1976. The act was broken up immediately afterwards, Johnson having signed for Arista Records as a solo artist.

Give Me Just a Little More Time – The Song

‘Give Me Just a Little More Time’ is the debut single by Chairmen of the Board, released in 1970 through Capitol Records on Holland–Dozier–Holland’s Invictus Records label. “Give Me Just a Little More Time”, backed with “Since the Days of Pigtails & Fairytales”, peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles chart, making it the best-performing of the Chairmen’s singles. It sold more than one million copies in the United Kingdom. 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.

The Heart – The Shape

This record has been crafted into the silhouette of a heart. The heart shape and its meaning has evolved over hundreds of years. Nowadays it means love but before the 13th and 14th centuries it was generally drawn for decorative purposes. People at that time thought of our hearts as books of memory and believed feelings for the beloved were somehow written on your heart.

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