My First Time Around

My First Time Around is the 1968 debut LP by Betty Wright. The album was recorded when Wright was 14 years old.[2][3] It includes the Top 40 hit single "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do".[4][5]

My First Time Around
Studio album by
Betty Wright
Released1968
GenreFunk, soul [1]
LabelAtco
ProducerBrad Shapiro, Steve Alaimo
Betty Wright chronology
''My First Time Around''
(1968)		 I Love The Way You Love
(1972)
Singles from My First Time Around
  1. "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do"
    Released: 1968
  2. "He's Bad, Bad, Bad"
    Released: 1968

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do"Clarence Reid & Willie Clarke2:04
2."Funny How Love Grows Cold"Clarence Reid & Willie Clarke2:51
3."I'm Gonna Hate Myself In The Morning"Dale Ward & Arthur Alexander2:11
4."Circle of Heartbreak"Betty Wright2:58
5."Sweet Lovin' Daddy"Clarence Reid & Willie Clarke2:25
6."Cry Like a Baby"Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham2:34
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Watch Out Love"Brad Shapiro, Betty Wright & Willie Clarke2:41
2."He's Bad, Bad, Bad"Clarence Reid & Willie Clarke2:22
3."I Can't Stop My Heart"Jackie Avery3:24
4."I'm Thankful"Steve Alaimo, Sam Cooke & J. W. Alexander2:03
5."The Best Girls Don't Always Win"Clarence Reid3:08
6."Just You"Sonny Bono3:06

Personnel

[1]

  • Betty Wright - lead vocal
  • 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

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]
gollark: Almost certainly mostly environment, yes.
gollark: It's easy to say that if you are just vaguely considering that, running it through the relatively unhurried processes of philosophizing™, that sort of thing. But probably less so if it's actually being turned over to emotion and such, because broadly speaking people reaaaallly don't want to die.
gollark: Am I better at resisting peer pressure than other people: well, I'd *like* to think so, but so would probably everyone else ever.
gollark: Anyway, I have, I think, reasonably strong "no genocide" ethics. But I don't know if, in a situation where everyone seemed implicitly/explicitly okay with helping with genocides, and where I feared that I would be punished if I either didn't help in some way or didn't appear supportive of helping, I would actually stick to this, since I don't think I've ever been in an environment with those sorts of pressures.
gollark: Maybe I should try arbitrarily increasing the confusion via recursion.

References
  1. http://www.discogs.com/Betty-Wright-My-First-Time-Around/release/1177082
  2. "Dusted Reviews: Betty Wright - My First Time Around". 2005-09-11. Archived from the original on 2015-02-10.
  3. Wang, Oliver (May 11, 2020). "Betty Wright Packed A Career's Worth Of Music Into Her Youthful First Act". NPR. Retrieved May 13, 2020. 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."
  4. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p5876/biography
  5. "Betty Wright - Billboard".
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