First Time (Robin Beck song)

"First Time"
Single by Robin Beck
from the album Trouble or Nothin'
B-side"Sleeping with the Enemy"
ReleasedJuly 1, 1988 (1988-07-01)[1]
GenreRock
Length3:17
LabelMercury, Metronome
Songwriter(s)Gavin Spencer, Tom Anthony, Terry Boyle
Producer(s)Gavin Spencer, Tom Anthony
Robin Beck singles chronology
"Sweet Talk"
(1979) 		"First Time"
(1988) 		"Save Up All Your Tears"
(1989)

"First Time" is a song by American singer Robin Beck from her second album, Trouble or Nothin' (1989). The song was released as a single in July 1988 and was originally recorded for a Coca-Cola commercial in 1987. In the United Kingdom, the power ballad[2] climbed to No. 1 and spent three weeks there in November and December 1988, spending 14 weeks on the UK Singles Chart in total. The song additionally reached number one in Austria, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and West Germany. Despite being also released as a single in the US[3] and critically praised by Billboard,[4] it failed to chart due to business political differences between Mercury Records and Coca-Cola wanting to promote either First Time or Save Up All Your Tears, according to Beck's interview with Rock Eyez in 2009.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ger was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "ROBIN BECK – "First Time"". Freakytrigger.co.uk. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  3. ^ https://www.discogs.com/master/175751-Robin-Beck-First-Time . Discogs.
  4. ^ Coleman, Bill (February 3, 1990). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. p. 85. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  5. ^ Beck, Robin (January 2009). "Interview with Robin Beck" (Interview). Interviewed by Brian Rademacher. RockEyez.com. Retrieved March 29, 2019.