My Dailymotion Channel www.dailymotion.com/FerrellSo... "I'll Take You There" is a song written by Al Bell (using his real name Alvertis Isbell), and originally performed by soul/gospel family band The Staple Singers. The Staple Singers version, produced by Bell, was released on Stax Records in February 1972, and spent a total of 15 weeks on the charts and reached number-one on the Billboard Hot 100. It is ranked as the 19th biggest American hit of 1972.[1]
The song was also a significant chart hit in two later cover versions. A 1991 cover version by BeBe & CeCe Winans, with Mavis Staples featured as a guest artist, made it to number one on the R&B chart, and also reached no. 90 on the Hot 100.[2] In 1994, the British band General Public released a cover of "I'll Take You There" which peaked at no. 22 on the Hot 100.[3] Rap trio Salt-N-Pepa sampled "I'll Take You There" in their 1991 hit "Let's Talk About Sex".
Included on the group's 1972 album Be Altitude: Respect Yourself, "I'll Take You There" features lead singer Mavis Staples inviting her listeners to seek Heaven. The song is "almost completely a call-and-response chorus",[1] with the introduction being lifted from "The Liquidator", a 1969 reggae hit by the Harry J Allstars. In fact, the entire song, written in the key of C, contains but two chords, C and F. A large portion of the song is set aside for Mavis' sisters Cleotha and Yvonne and their father "Pops" to seemingly perform solos on their respective instruments. In actuality, these solos (and all music in the song) were recorded by the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
In 1972, the Jamaican band The Deltones released a reggae version of the song.
Eruption recorded a disco version of the song for their 1977 debut album, Eruption.
In 1988, Big Daddy Kane remade the song for his Long Live the Kane album.
In 1994, a young Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake performed the song as a duet during the final season of The Mickey Mouse Club.
In 1996, SWV covered "I'll Take You There" on the NBA at 50: A Musical Celebration album.
"I'll Take You There" returned to number one on the R&B chart in 1991 when it was covered by BeBe & CeCe Winans, with Mavis Staples featured as a guest artist on the track. The single also made No. 90 on the Hot 100.[16]
Female rap trio Salt-N-Pepa sampled "I'll Take You There" in their 1991 hit "Let's Talk About Sex".
R&B singer Kelly Price's cover was featured on the soundtrack to Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns.
The American rock band Sammy Hagar and the Waboritas recorded a cover of the song "I'll Take You There" for their 2006 album Livin' It Up!, albeit with modified lyrics and the title, "Let Me Take You There".
In 2010, British rap artist Dizzee Rascal sampled the track on his single "Dirtee Disco".
Robert Randolph & the Family Band released a cover of the song on their Live in Concert album in October 2011. Blues artist Susan Tedeschi guests on vocals.
In 2018, Mavis Staples performed the song alongside Chris Stapleton, Maren Morris, Marty Stuart and Morgane Stapleton at the 52nd Annual Country Music Association Awards.