"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
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Weekly charts
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| Chart (1978–79)
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Peak
position
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| Canadian RPM Top Singles[1]
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15
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [2]
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17
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| U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [3]
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15
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| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary
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7
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| U.S. Billboard Country
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85
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Year-end charts
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Other versions
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- A new version by Davis as a duet with Marie Osmond made the Country charts in 1988, reaching #47 (U.S.)[2] and #55 (Canada).
- A cover version was recorded by Frederick Knight and Fern Kinney the same year 1978 on Chimneyville Records based in Jackson, Mississippi, a subsidiary of Malaco Records.
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