Sweet Life (Paul Davis song) explained

Sweet Life
Cover:Sweet_Life_-_Paul_Davis.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Paul Davis
Album:Singer of Songs: Teller of Tales
B-Side:Bad Dream
Released:August 1978
Recorded:1977
Genre:Soft rock
Length:3:28
Label:Bang
Producer:Phil Benton
Paul Davis
Prev Title:Darlin'
Prev Year:1978
Next Title:Do Right
Next Year:1980

"Sweet Life" is a song written, composed, and recorded by American singer-songwriter Paul Davis. It was the third single he released from his 1977 album Singer of Songs: Teller of Tales, and his fourth-highest peaking pop hit, peaking at #17 on the Billboard chart in late 1978. On the Cash Box chart, the song spent three weeks at #15. The song also reached #15 in Canada.

"Sweet Life" spent five months on the U.S. charts, longer than any of Davis' other singles except "I Go Crazy."

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1978–79)Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles[1] 15
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [2] 17
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [3] 15
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary7
U.S. Billboard Country85

Year-end charts

Chart (1978)Rank
Canada [4] 104
U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[5] 121

Other versions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 2016-10-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160812043516/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.5529a&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=j86d3uqb5jajlou8j8ag1r4lv4 . 2016-08-12 . dead .
  2. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 -
  3. Web site: Cash Box Top 100 12/16/78 .
  4. Web site: Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada . Bac-lac.gc.ca . 17 July 2013 . 2016-10-13.
  5. Book: Whitburn, Joel . 1999 . Pop Annual . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin . Record Research Inc. . 0-89820-142-X.