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Love Takes Time came out in October 1990 as the second single from Mariah’s debut album Mariah Carey. It entered the charts on #73 and reached the top on November 10, 1990. It lasted there for three weeks, being replaced by Someday.
Love Takes Time was another beautiful ballad, made by Mariah and Ben Margulies. When she was presenting her songs for the album, everybody agreed that she has to use this song on her first album. Mariah was actually planing to use it on her second album, but Tommy insisted that the song has to be finished right away. They presented the demo to Walter Afanasieff, who made the arrangements on Whitney Houston’s first three albums.
He was assigned for the production of the track. They managed to record all the rhythm and instrumental tracks in only one day and on the next day Mariah made her vocal performance. In three days they had the whole song recorded, but people at Columbia wanted to have more strong voice. Walter and Mariah fixed that and created a beautiful ballad that finally ended up on the album. Because of some error the first few copies of Mariah Carey did not have the song listed, so they had to throw away a few hundred copies...
The single came out only with LP version of Vision Of Love and it was also featuring some other songs from her debut album. The sales of the single went gold.
Love Takes Time was honored for the Song Of The Year at BMI 40th Annual Pop Awards.
7": US (38 73455):
1. Love Takes Time
2. Sent From Up Above
CD5: UK (656364 5) (pic. CD):
1. Love Takes Time
2. Vanishing
3. You Need Me
4. Vision Of Love
CD5: UK (656364 2):
1. Love Takes Time
2. Vanishing
3. You Need Me
The music video for Love takes Time was directed by two directors: Jeb Bien and Walter Maser. They have shot the video in 1991. There was quite a lot of problems, because it was raining all the time, so Mariah had to spend a lot of time in her trailer. The video is filmed in black & white, what makes it even more romantic. Mariah is dressed in a one piece swimsuit and wrapped in a towel. Her curly hair makes her look very sweet. Mariah is walking alone on the sand at the beach. The feelings of emptiness and heartbreak were expressed by an empty phone booth, with a dangling receiver...
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