Jump to content

Sweet Life (Paul Davis song)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Sweet Life"
Single by Paul Davis
from the album Singer of Songs: Teller of Tales
B-side"Bad Dream"
ReleasedAugust 1978
Recorded1977
GenreSoft rock
Length3:28
LabelBang
Songwriter(s)Paul Davis, Susan Collins
Producer(s)Phil Benton
Paul Davis
Paul Davis singles chronology
"Darlin'"
(1978)
"Sweet Life"
(1978)
"Do Right"
(1980)

"Sweet Life" is a song written, composed, and recorded by American singer-songwriter Paul Davis. It was the third single he released from his 1977 album Singer of Songs: Teller of Tales, and his fourth-highest peaking pop hit, peaking at #17 on the Billboard chart in late 1978. On the Cash Box chart, the song spent three weeks at #15. The song also reached #15 in Canada.

"Sweet Life" spent five months on the U.S. charts, longer than any of Davis' other singles except "I Go Crazy."

Chart performance

[edit]

Other versions

[edit]
  • A new version by Davis as a duet with Marie Osmond made the Country charts in 1988, reaching #47 (U.S.)[2] and #55 (Canada).
  • A cover version was recorded by Frederick Knight and Fern Kinney the same year 1978 on Chimneyville Records based in Jackson, Mississippi, a subsidiary of Malaco Records.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-08-12. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  2. ^ a b Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  3. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 12/16/78".
  4. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
[edit]