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Take Me Now
Studio album by David Gates
Released	August 1981
Genre	Soft rock
Length	32:59
Label	Arista [1] Pony Records
Producer	David Gates
David Gates chronology
Falling in Love Again (1980) Take Me Now (1981) Love Is Always Seventeen (1994)
Singles from Take Me Now
" Take Me Now" Released: September 1981

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]

Take Me Now is a solo album by David Gates of Bread. ^[4]

The album peaked at #62 on the Billboard chart. ^[5]

Billboard praised the title track, calling it "an attractive midtempo ballad that's more upbeat than [Gates's] seamless pop classics of the early '70s." ^[6]

All tracks composed by David Gates except where noted

1. "It's You" - 3:47
2. " Take Me Now" - 3:23
3. "She's a Heartbreaker" - 2:36
4. "This Could Be Forever" - 3:23
5. "Come Home for Christmas" - 3:07
6. "Still in Love" (Hadley Hockensmith, Kelly Willard, David Gates) - 3:18
7. "Vanity" - 3:15
8. "Nineteen on the Richter Scale" - 3:31
9. "Lady Valentine" - 3:34
10. "It's What You Say" - 3:05

• David Gates - acoustic guitar (1, 4); guitar (2, 3, 10), bass (1, 2, 3, 4, 7); all instruments (5); keyboards (7); slide guitar (8); piano (9)
• Hadley Hockensmith - lead guitar (1, 3, 7, 8); electric guitar (4, 6); bass (6)
• Larry Knechtel - Fender Rhodes electric piano (1, 4); piano (2, 8); keyboards (3, 10); bass (9, 10)
• Paul Leim - drums (1-4, 6, 8-10); percussion (4)
• Mike Botts - drums (7)
• Craig Gates - percussion (4)
• Tom Scott - alto saxophone (4)
• Chuck Findley - flugelhorn (9)
• Dick Hyde - bass trumpet (9)

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