"The First Time" | ||||
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Single by Surface | ||||
from the album 3 Deep | ||||
B-side | "Closer Than Friends" | |||
Released | ![]() ![]() | |||
Recorded | 1989 | |||
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Length | 4:16 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Songwriter(s) | Brian Simpson Bernard Jackson | |||
Producer(s) | Surface | |||
Surface singles chronology | ||||
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"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]
Consider the chorus of "The First Time," a tender R&B ballad that was the only #1 hit for the group known as Surface...and "The First Time" sounded like a relic of the smoothed-out quiet storm '80s.