"Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)" is a song written by the premier Motown songwriting/production team of the 1960s Holland–Dozier–Holland. The song was most popular in 1975 when it was recorded by the Doobie Brothers.

Motown versions

Eddie Holland of Holland-Dozier-Holland made the original recording of "Take Me in Your Arms" in 1964. This version was not released commercially until 2005. Holland-Dozier-Holland had Kim Weston record the song in 1965 and her version was released that September. It peaked at #4 on the R&B chart in Billboard and at #50 on the Hot 100. In 1967, Holland-Dozier-Holland had the Isley Brothers remake the song. Their version released in March 1968 and reached #22 on the R&B chart.

Jermaine Jackson covered "Take Me in Your Arms" for his first solo album, Jermaine, released in 1972. The track, produced by Hal Davis, was the B-side for Jackson's record "Daddy's Home".

1975

The Doobie Brothers remade "Take Me in Your Arms" for their 1975 Stampede album. Tom Johnston who was then the Doobies' frontman, later recalled, "I had been a fan of that song since it came out somewhere in the '60s. I just loved that song. So somewhere around '72 I started lobbying to get the band to do a cover of that. And I didn't get anywhere until '75. Then finally in 1975 we actually did it."

"Take Me in Your Arms" is a song by freestyle singer Lil Suzy. Released as a single in 1991 from the album Love Can't Wait, it reached No. 48 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Canadian dance chart. The song was written by John Romano, Julian Hernandez, Richard Miranda and Tony Garcia.

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Take Me in Your Arms (in Spanish Llévame en tus brazos) is a 1954 Mexican Drama film directed by Julio Bracho. Starred by Ninón Sevilla and Armando Silvestre.

Plot

In a little fisher's village in the Papaloapan River lives the fisher Pedro (Andrés Soler) and his two daughters Rita (Ninón Sevilla) and Martha (Rosenda Monteros). Rita loves a young man named José (Armando Silvestre) who has been fired from a sugar mill for organizing a strike. So, he and Rita can't marry soon. After a good fishing, all in the town celebrate a party. But Don Antonio (Julio Villarreal), the owner of the sugar mill, comes to collect Pedro the money that he lent him for a boat. As Pedro can't pay him, Don Antonio asks as pay to one of his daughters. Rita listens and she decides to go with Don Antonio to save her father and her sister. Before leaving, Rita makes love with José. When she leaves, José thinks that she has left him.

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