The First Time (Surface song)

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"The First Time"
The First Time - Surface.jpg
Single by Surface
from the album 3 Deep
B-side "Closer Than Friends"
Released Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 1990

Flag of the United States.svg October 11, 1990

Flag of Germany.svg December 6, 1990
Recorded1989
Genre
Length4:16
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Brian Simpson
Bernard Jackson
Producer(s) Surface
Surface singles chronology
"Can We Spend Some Time"
(1990)
"The First Time"
(1990)
"All I Want Is You"
(1991)

"The First Time" is a single by American R&B/pop music trio Surface that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991 for two weeks, the trio's only chart-topper. The song also spent one week at number one on the U.S. R&B chart [2] and two weeks atop the adult contemporary chart. [3]

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