Take Your Time Album

Take Your Time was released on summer 1999, featuring long jazz pianist John Paul Larkin, under his "Scatman John" persona for his "Scatman" Project.

This was the final album from Scatman John before his death in December 1999.

While John's previous albums featured lengthy dedications to the people who made possible those albums, Take Your Time lacks any dedication, with the exception of one phrase on the sleeve for this album "This album is dedicated to you".

There were no music videos made for any of the tracks on this album owing to Johns poor health. This would be a critical hit for the album, due to not having any music video material to promotionate the album

It was released around July 1999, as Scatman collectionist Jonathan Dolan declared; John was unaware of it's release.

History
In a change from the previous albums, producer Kai Mattheson (who produced Eurodance group Mr President before) was in charge of production, Ingo Kays and Tony Catania did not participate in any form on this album creation.

This led to a change of sound for the album, a latin theme ran through several tracks pre-empting the latin sound that would come to prominence in the charts in the following years.

The album spawned a couple of singles.

Scatmambo (Patricia)

This was John's first single for his next album, and was released one year before, in 1998.

While his previous single released "Let It Go" featured a major eurodance feeling, Scatmambo introduced the "Mambo Latino" to the Scatman Project, which would heavily influence this single and the following album.

Take Your Time

"Take Your Time" was released as a six track CD single.

While only the "single version" got featured on the album, "Take Your Time" commonly represents the entire album, despite being some "happy" songs like "Ichi, Ni, San, Go!", TYT gives a more relaxing tune. While Song of Scatland featured a guitar on the background, on TYT it takes the majority of the song,

It got a rerealese one year later, as a farewell to John Larkin, which it would feature less tracks than the original release.

It had a banner on the cover which read "In Loving Memory Of Scatman John".

The Chickadee Song

Mistakenly listed as "I Love Samba" on some websites, "The Chickadee Song" was the only exclusive single release for the Japanese market. It introduced a brand new arrangement of the track feauted on the album, and also features the track "Take Your Time" and some of it's remixes for the japanese audience, due to the TYT single was not released there.

Ichi, Ni, San...Go!

"Ichi Ni San...Go!" was released as the follow up, this was released on Europe, being John's last single being released while he was still alive.

TRACK LISTINGS
Take Your Time

Scatman's Dance

The Chickadee Song

Take Me Away

Scat Me If You Can

I Love Samba

Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Ichi Ni San...Go

Dream Again

Everyday

Night Train

Scatmambo

Take Your Time (Pierre J's Remix) *

The Chickadee Song (A Little Bit Faster) *

Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Radio Version) *


 * Indicated Japanese Bouns Tracks

Legacy
Sadly, this would be the last album that John was involved, as he passed away on December 3rd, 1999.

This album is overshadowed by "Scatman's World" & "Everybody Jam!", and while it didn't have what Scatman was on those albums, the album offers some great tunes & John's scat rap.

Some of the tracks were presented on the compilation that was released in 2002, for the japanese market..