Sweet Life (Paul Davis song)
"Sweet Life" | ||||
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Single by Paul Davis | ||||
from the album Singer of Songs: Teller of Tales | ||||
B-side | "Bad Dream" | |||
Released | August 1978 | |||
Recorded | 1977 | |||
Genre | Soft rock | |||
Length | 3:28 | |||
Label | Bang | |||
Songwriter(s) | Paul Davis, Susan Collins | |||
Producer(s) | Phil Benton Paul Davis | |||
Paul Davis singles chronology | ||||
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"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
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Other versions
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
- ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-08-12. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
- ^ a b Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
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- ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.