The First Time (Surface song)

"The First Time"
Single by Surface
from the album 3 Deep
B-side"Closer Than Friends"
ReleasedUnited Kingdom October 1990

United States October 11, 1990

Germany December 6, 1990
Recorded1989
Genre
Length4:16
LabelColumbia
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]

  1. ^ a b Breihan, Tom (November 3, 2021). "The Number Ones: Surface's "The First Time". Stereogum. Retrieved December 19, 2023. 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.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 559.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 237.