This Will Be

"This Will Be"
Single by Natalie Cole
from the album Inseparable
B-side	"Joey"
Released	July 13, 1975
Genre	Soul, R&B
Length	2:50
Label	Capitol
Writer(s)	Chuck Jackson, Marvin Yancy
Producer	Chuck Jackson, Marvin Yancy
Natalie Cole singles chronology
"This Will Be" (1975) "Inseparable" (1975)

"This Will Be" (also known as "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)") is a song performed by Natalie Cole and composed by Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy. It was Natalie Cole's debut single in 1975 and one of her biggest hits, becoming a number-one R&B and number-six pop smash in the U.S. and also reaching the UK Top 40. Cole won a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, a category that had previously been dominated by Aretha Franklin. It would also help her win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Chart positions

Charts	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	6
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles	1 (2 weeks)

In the media

Television

• The song was used as background music in television and radio ads for the eHarmony online dating service.
• The "Family Jewels" episode of Las Vegas (Season One, Episode 21).
• In third episode of the fourth season "RuPaul's Drag Race", contestants The Princess and Dida Ritz "lip synced for their lives" to the song. Natalie Cole was a guest judge.

Films

The song appears on the soundtrack albums for the following films:

• The Parent Trap (1998)
• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
• Taxi (2004)
• Must Love Dogs (2005)
• Alles Is Liefde, a Dutch remake of Love Actually (2007)

And is featured in the following films:

• While You Were Sleeping (1995)
• If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
• A Cinderella Story (2004)
• Bride Wars (2008)
• The Bounty Hunter (2010)

External links

• Song review on All Music

Preceded by "Do It Any Way You Wanna" by People's Choice

Billboard's Hot Soul Singles number-one single October 4, 1975 – October 11, 1975

Succeeded by "Games People Play" by The Spinners