Take One

Take One may refer to:

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Take One! (Shakin' Stevens album)

Take One! is a 1980 album by British rock and roll singer Shakin' Stevens. It was his first release on Epic Records and his first album to enter the UK charts. The album featured Stevens' debut hit single "Hot Dog".

Background

Often erroneously dated as being released in October 1979, Take One! wasn't in fact released until February 1980, after the "Hot Dog" single had become Stevens' first UK hit single. Produced by Mike Hurst, the album contained a host of experienced session men, including lead guitarist Albert Lee, pianist Geraint Watkins, steel guitarist B.J. Cole and bassist and arranger Stuart Colman. The album charted at No.62 in March 1980 and remained on the UK albums chart for two weeks.

In April 1982 the album was re-released under the new title of Hot Dog with "That's All Right" and "Ah, Poor Little Baby" being replaced by "You and I Were Meant to Be" and "Make it Right Tonight" respectively.

In 2009, Sony Music released a box set of Stevens' original albums called The Epic Masters. This was the first time the album was released on compact disc and contained bonus tracks of his first three non-album singles recorded for Epic in 1978 and 1979.

Take One (Adam Lambert album)

Take One is the nonofficial debut album from American artist and American Idol season eight runner-up, Adam Lambert, consisting of pre-Idol recordings Lambert made while working as a session musician, but released post-Idol. It was released on November 17, 2009. The album had sold 48,000 copies in the United States.

Album information

This album is a collection of recordings Lambert made in 2005 while working as a session musician. Take One was released in the same month as his post-Idol debut, For Your Entertainment.

Lambert issued a statement through 19 Entertainment stating, "Back in 2005 when I was a struggling artist, I was hired as a studio singer to lend my vocals to tracks written by someone else. I was broke at the time and this was my chance to make a few bucks, so I jumped at the opportunity to record for my first time in a professional studio. The work I did back then in no way reflects the music I am currently in the studio working on."

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