Give Me Just a Little More Time The single also peaked at number-eight on the "Billboard" R&B Singles chart. It reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in September 1970, having already sold more than one million copies in the US. The first Chairmen of the Board LP, a self-titled release, included the single; after the single's success, the "Chairmen of the Board" album was reissued as "Give Me Just a Little More Time". In 1982, American R&B singer Angela Clemmons remade the song and it peaked at #4 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart. The Funk Brothers who played on "Give Me Just
Give Me a Reason of "PopMatters" commented, " On the upbeat dance numbers like, 'Give Me a Reason', this bolsters the band's previously thin-sounding pop." "Give Me a Reason" did not match the success of the previous singles, "Breathless" and "Irresistible". However, it managed to peak inside the top-forty in a few countries. The song reached its higher position on the Belgian charts, peaking at number nine on the Flanders chart, and number ten on the Wallonia chart. In the UK, the song reached number 27 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming their ninth top-forty single there. In New Zealand, the song managed to