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, the album was released under the title ''Take Good Care of Yourself'', where it charted at #6, in Europe the album was issued with the alternative title of ''With Love''. The album was also issued in Japan with an alternative running order and several different tracks. The album was re-issued in October 2010, for the first time in its entirety on CD by Big Break Records. This re-issue includes only foreign language songs previously available in the Far East and a 1977 remix of "

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Track listing

Personnel

;The Three Degrees * Sheila Ferguson - vocals * Valerie Holiday - vocals * Fayette Pinkney - vocals ;Musicians *

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, Norman Harris, Reginald Lucas, Roland Chambers,

T.J. Tindall Thomas Joshua Tindall (1950 – January 26, 2016) was an American guitarist. He was a member of MFSB and played on 38 gold and platinum funk and R&B records and more than 30 hits produced by Gamble and Huff in the 1970s and 1980s. Tindall is conside ...

- guitar *Lenny Pakula, Leon Huff, Eddie Green, Harold Williams - keyboards *Anthony Jackson, Ronnie Baker - bass * Earl Young, Karl Chambers, Norman Farrington - drums *Larry Washington -

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* Bobby Martin, John Davis, Jack Faith, Lenny Pakula - arrangements ;Technology *Jay Mark, Joe Tarsia - engineer *Ed Lee - design *Peter Lavery - photography

Charts

Singles

External links

The Three Degrees-International at Discogs

References

{{Authority control 1975 albums The Three Degrees albums Albums produced by Kenneth Gamble Albums produced by Leon Huff Albums arranged by Bobby Martin Albums recorded at Sigma Sound Studios Philadelphia International Records albums