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“It’s Going to Take Some Time” is a song written by Carole King and Toni Stern for King’s 1971 album, Music. It was redone by the Carpenters in 1972 for their fourth album, A Song for You. According to Richard Carpenter, he had to choose which songs he wanted to remake, and there was a big pile of 7” singles he had to listen to. When he encountered “It’s Going to Take Some Time”, he knew it would be a hit, and recorded it. The song peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Tim Wessburg played the flute during the instrumental section of the song. King is quoted as saying that the duo’s lush, string-laden cover, including a flute solo, made her own more sparse version sound “like a demo”. The band Dishwalla covered the song on the 1994 tribute album, If I Were a... Read on...