Sorry (Grace Jones song)

"Sorry" / "That's the Trouble"
Single by Grace Jones
from the album Portfolio
B-side	"That's the Trouble"
Released	1976
Genre	Disco soul
Length	3:58 ("Sorry" album version) 3:36 ("That's the Trouble" single version) 3:56 ("That's the Trouble" album version)
Label	Beam Junction Orfeus
Songwriter(s)	Grace Jones Pierre Papadiamondis
Producer(s)	Tom Moulton
Grace Jones singles chronology
"I Need a Man" (1975) "Sorry" / "That's the Trouble" (1976) "La Vie en rose" (1977)

"Sorry" is a song by Jamaican singer and actress Grace Jones, released in 1976 with "That's the Trouble" as a Double A-Side single.

Background

"Sorry"/"That's the Trouble" was Jones' second single, released before her international breakthrough, on the Orfeus label in France and Beam Junction in the US. Both songs later appeared on Jones' debut album Portfolio ; 7" version of "Sorry" and an alternate mix of "That's the Trouble" were placed there. Both the original single version and the instrumental of "That's the Trouble" remain unreleased on CD. The extended 12" mixes of both tracks were released on Grace's box set Disco .

Grace Jones explained in her 2015 memoir that "Sorry" and "That's the Trouble" were issued as a double A-side because she didn't want either song "to be a mere B-side", which were often seen as "throwaway" tracks. ^[1]

Track listing

French 7" single (1976) ^[2] / U.S. 7" single (1976) ^[3] / U.K. 7" single (1977) ^[4]

A. "Sorry" – 3:58

B. "That's the Trouble" – 3:36

German 7" single (1976) ^[5] / Dutch 7" single (1977) ^[6]

A. "That's the Trouble" – 3:36

B. "Sorry" – 3:58

U.S. 12" single (1976) ^[7]

A. "Sorry" – 6:42

B. "That's the Trouble" – 7:02

French 12" single (1976) ^[8] / Dutch 12" single (1977) ^[9]

A. "That's the Trouble" – 7:02

B. "Sorry" – 6:42

Chart performance

Chart (1977)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100 [10]	71
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [11]	7

References

1. Jones, Grace (2015). I'll Never Write My Memoirs. London: Simon & Schuster. p. 143. ISBN   978-1-4711-3523-1.
2. Sorry / That's the Trouble (liner notes). Grace Jones. Orfeus. 1976. 990.141.
3. Sorry / That's the Trouble (liner notes). Grace Jones. Beam Junction. 1976. 45-BJ 102.
4. That's the Trouble / Sorry (liner notes). Grace Jones. Polydor. 1977. 2058 856.
5. That's the Trouble / Sorry (liner notes). Grace Jones. Ariola. 1976. 17 465 AT.
6. That's the Trouble / Sorry (liner notes). Grace Jones. Scramble. 1977. SRS 510.006.
7. Sorry / That's the Trouble (liner notes). Grace Jones. Beam Junction. 1976. 12-BJ 1001.
8. That's the Trouble / Sorry (liner notes). Grace Jones. Orfeus. 1976. 900.071.
9. That's the Trouble / Sorry (liner notes). Grace Jones. Scramble. 1977. MS 40.12.
10. "Grace Jones Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
11. "Grace Jones Chart History (Dance Club Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 October 2021.