| This One's for You | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Teddy Pendergrass |
| Cover: | This One's for You Teddy Pendergrass album.jpg |
| Released: | July 23, 1982 |
| Recorded: | 1981–1982 |
| Genre: | R&B, soul |
| Label: | Philadelphia International |
| Producer: | Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Gene McFadden, John Whitehead, Victor Carstarphen, John R, Faith, Thom Bell, Clarence B. Simmons, Joseph B. Jefferson, Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson |
| Prev Title: | It's Time for Love |
| Prev Year: | 1981 |
| Next Title: | Heaven Only Knows |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
This One's for You is an album by the American musician Teddy Pendergrass.[1] It was released just after a bad car accident Pendergrass was involved in, which left him paralyzed from the waist down due to a spinal cord injury.[2] The album did not do as well as his previous albums did on the Billboard 200, peaking at only #59, but it did do well on the R&B album chart, reaching #6. One single was released, "I Can't Win for Losing", which peaked at only #32 on the R&B charts.
The Globe and Mail wrote: "Although he occasionally gets bogged down in the big and over-syrupy Gamble-Huff production, numbers such as 'The Gift of Life' and 'This One's for You' are moving, emotive and sensually rendered ballads of the first rank."[3]