[4][5][6] The album was originally called Singer-Songwriter and was finally released on de Paul's music store as Take Your Time, albeit with a slightly different track listing.

[9] "My One and Only" is de Paul's version of a song recorded and released in 1975 by her label mates at the time, the British female vocal trio Bones.

De Paul said of the title track "I wrote the song "Before You Go Tonight" for Ringo Starr when we were dating, but, when he had to go abroad to be a tax exile in the 70s, I could not follow him as I was working in the U.K. - and so we split up.

[11] "Martian Man" (written about fellow musician Roy Wood because he had green and red hair at the time),[1] had a similar vocal overdub as de Paul's version of "Because", that she released on the Beatles cover album and soundtrack to the film All This and World War II, recorded at around the same time.

This song was covered in 1996 by Julianne Regan's group Mice as a track on the "Milkman" EP and was a UK chart hit.