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Take It Like You Give It

1967 studio album by Aretha Franklin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3980276 ↗
Source-derived summary

Take It Like You Give It is the tenth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin. The album was released in April 4, 1967 by Columbia Records.

Background

Due to her worsening relations with Columbia Records in late 1966, this was the last album of Franklin's on the label to only feature previously unreleased songs.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Take It Like You Give It” as 1967 studio album by Aretha Franklin. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967. The account is most persuasive where Take, Like and Give can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1967 studio album by Aretha Franklin. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3980276. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967 and 1966.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Take It Like You Give It”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Take It Like You Give It primary sources, Take It Like You Give It archive and Take research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Take It Like You Give It”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Take It Like You Give It” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.