This Time I'll Be Sweeter

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"This Time I'll Be Sweeter" is a soul ballad written by Haras Fyre (professionally known as Pat Grant) and Gwen Guthrie.

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The first release of "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" was as the B-side of the May 1975 Arista Records single release "Love Blind" by Martha Reeves; both sides of Reeves' single were produced by Bert De Coteaux and Tony Silvester who had hired composers Gwen Guthrie and Haras Fyre (pka Patrick/Pat Grant) as staff writers for the De Coteaux/Silvester company Penumbra Music in 1973. The Martha Reeves version of "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" was included on Reeves' 1976 album release The Rest of My Life. [1]

Angela Bofill version

"This Time I'll Be Sweeter"
Single by Angela Bofill
from the album Angie [2]
B-side "Baby, I Need Your Love"
Released21 November 1978 (1978-11-21)
Recorded1978
Genre
Length4:21
Label GRP Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Angela Bofill singles chronology
"Under the Moon and Over the Sky"
(1978)
"This Time I'll Be Sweeter"
(1978)
"Baby, I Need Your Love"
(1979)

"This Time I'll Be Sweeter" had its highest profile incarnation as the debut single for Angela Bofill who recorded "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" for her Angie album. Bofill's producer Dave Grusin knew of the song due to his being acquainted with its composer Gwen Guthrie who he had frequently utilized as a session singer (Guthrie was a member of the chorale featured on the Angie album although the chorale is not featured on "This Time I'll Be Sweeter"). Co-released with the Angie album on 21 November 1978, Bofill's "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" single would reach #23 on the Hot Soul Singles chart: [3] although Bofill would subsequently score higher-placing Soul chart hits, "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" would remain her only single to approach the Billboard Hot 100, bubbling under at #104. A duet version with Sharon Cuneta was released and performed in the 1983 movie Friends in Love. Bofill's live version of the "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" is featured on her 2006 Live from Manila concert album.

Early versions

Other versions

Overall there are more than eighty recorded versions of "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" including those by:

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