[2][3] In the UK Singles Chart it reached a high of number 7.

Parker claims to have written the song, and his name is on the 1958 recording, but later versions credit Berry Gordy, Gwen Gordy, Billy Davis, and sometimes Marv Johnson.

[5] Parker told the Forgotten Hits newsletter in 2008:[5] I wrote 'You've Got What It Takes,' that was MY song.

Even had the Paul Hucklebuck Williams band playing on it behind me... And then Berry Gordy just stole it out from under me, just put his name on it.

I was just trying to make a living, playing guitar and singing, how was I going to go on and fight Berry Gordy, big as he was, and Motown Records?