My First Time Around Explained

My First Time Around
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Betty Wright
Cover:	My First Time Around.jpeg
Released:	1968
Label:	Atco
Producer:	Brad Shapiro, Steve Alaimo
Next Title:	I Love The Way You Love
Next Year:	1972

My First Time Around is the 1968 debut LP by Betty Wright. The album was recorded when Wright was 14 years old.^{[1] [2]} It includes the Top 40 hit single "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do".^{[3] [4]}

Personnel

• Betty Wright - lead vocals
• Joey Murcia – guitar
• Bobby Birdwatcher - piano, organ
• Clarence Reid - piano
• Arnold Albury - piano
• David Brown - bass
• Eddie Martinez - drums
• Butch Trucks - drums
• The Reid Singers - backing vocals

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dusted Reviews: Betty Wright - My First Time Around. 2005-09-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20150210182046/http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2403. 2015-02-10.
2. News: Betty Wright Packed A Career's Worth Of Music Into Her Youthful First Act. Wang. Oliver. May 11, 2020. May 13, 2020. NPR. Recorded for her debut album, My First Time Around, "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do" came out when Wright was still just 14. Unlike other adolescent artists whose youth was central in how they were marketed, Wright's vocal power allowed her to "pass" for a much older singer. This wasn't lost on her songwriters. Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke penned most of her early tunes, and they cast Wright as a worldly adult woman in ways that might have made listeners uncomfortable if they had realized she was a young teen. As Capouya told me over the phone, "because of the material, they didn't want to necessarily emphasize that she was so young and she was definitely singing above her age." As if to accent this point, on the song, Wright sings, "Just take this advice I give ya / just like a mother.".
3. Web site: Betty Wright Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More. AllMusic.
4. Betty Wright - Billboard. Billboard.