This Time I'll Be Sweeter
"This Time I'll Be Sweeter" is a
.The first release of "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" was as the
Tony Silvester who had hired composers Gwen Guthrie and Haras Fyre (a.k.a. Patrick/Pat Grant) as staff writers for the De Coteaux/Silvester company Penumbra Music in 1973. The Martha Reeves version of "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" was included on Reeves' 1976 album release The Rest of My Life.[1]
Early versions
- De Couteaux and Silvester also produced the version by Linda Lewis on her album Not a Little Girl Anymore[2] released - also on Arista - in June 1975. Lewis' version - whose chorale consisted of the song's co-writer Gwen Guthrie with Deniece Williams - was released as the album's lead single in the US. It was later issued in the UK in September 1976 as the follow-up to the hit song "Baby I'm Yours", just missing the UK Top 50, peaking at #51. The track did afford Lewis a hit in Brazil ranking at #65 on that nation's ranking of the Top 100 singles for the year 1976.
- "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" was also featured on the 1976 album release by Marlena Shaw, Just a Matter of Time,[3] a Bert DeCoteaux/Tony Silvester production. Shaw's version of "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" has been cited by the song's co-writer Pat Grant/Haras Fyre (also the bassist on several of the song's earliest versions) as being the original version of the song, as Fyre asserts that Shaw's recording of "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" dates from 1974.[citation needed]
- Roberta Flack recorded "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" in the 1973-1974 sessions for her 1975 album release Feel Like Makin' Love with Gwen Guthrie contributing background vocals to the track, which would be held over for release on Flack's 1977 album Blue Lights in the Basement.[4]
Angela Bofill version
| "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Angela Bofill | ||||
| from the album Angie[5] | ||||
| B-side | "Baby, I Need Your Love" | |||
| Released | 21 November 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 4:21 | |||
| Label | GRP Records | |||
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| Angela Bofill singles chronology | ||||
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"This Time I'll Be Sweeter" had its highest profile incarnation as the debut single for
bubbling under at #104. A duet version with Sharon Cuneta was released and performed in the 1983 movie Friends in Love. A live version of "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" is featured on Bofill's 2006 Live from Manila
concert album.
References
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (13 September 1975). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. – via Google Books.
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- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 68.