It Only Takes A Minute

Album: The Best of Tavares (1975)
Charted: 46 10
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  • Ah, ha
    Yeah, yeah
    Ah, ha, yeah

    Once an hour of the day
    We threw at least fun away
    Walk the streets half a year
    Tryin' to find a new career
    Now if you get a flu attack
    For thirty days you're on your back
    Through the night I've seen you dance
    Baby, give me half a chance
    It only takes a minute, girl
    To fall in love, to fall in love
    It only takes a minute, girl
    To fall in love, let's fall in love
    Ooh, ooh
    Ooh, ooh

    Now in the unemployment lines
    You can spend your life readin' signs
    Waitin' for your interview
    They can shoot the whole day for you, yeah
    Now winter's gonna turn to spring
    And you haven't accomplished a thing (haven't accomplished a thing)
    So baby, leave a little time
    'Cause you never know what's on my mind, yeah

    It only takes a minute, girl
    To fall in love, to fall in love
    It only takes a minute, girl, yeah
    To fall in love, let's fall in love
    Boom, boom, boom, boom, fall in love
    Boom, boom, boom, boom, fall in love
    Boom, boom, boom, boom, fall in love
    Boom, boom, boom, boom, fall in love
    Boom, boom, boom, boom, fall in love
    Boom, boom, boom, boom fall in love

    It only takes a minute, girl, baby
    To fall in love, to fall in love
    It only takes a minute, girl
    To fall in love, let's fall in love
    It only takes a minute, girl
    To fall, to fall, to fall in love, yeah fall in love
    It only takes a minute, girl, come on, now, fall in love, fall in love Writer/s: Brian Potter, Dennis Earle Lambert
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 6th 1975, Tavares performed "It Only Takes a Minute" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Two months earlier on July 20th, 1975 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #82; and on October 19th, 1975 it peaked at #10 {for 1 week} and spent 18 weeks on the Top 100...
    And on September 14th, 1975 it reached #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1973 and 1982 the five Tavares brothers had fourteen Top 100 records; their next biggest hit after "It Only Takes A Minute" was "Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel", it peaked at #15 {for 2 weeks} on August 29th, 1976...
    In 1974 they had their first #1 record on the R&B Singles chart, a covered version of Daryl Hall and John Oates' "She's Gone".
  • Camille from Toronto, OhBom, bom, bom, bom, fall in love.....This is such a fun song to listen to, even almost 40 years after is was released by Tavares. Upbeat; always fun to sing along with.
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