Robin Beck
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Robin Beck (born on 7 November 1954, in Brooklyn, NY) is an American female singer. She topped the singles charts in the UK and Germany during 1988 with her single "The First Time", which had come to the public's attention via its use in a Coca-Cola commercial. Coca Cola Great Britain had tapped the 34 year old American jingle singer because of her solid vocal performance on a 1987/1988 USA Coca-Cola radio commercial in the USA (although Coca Cola spun her age to the UK press as 27).
Prior to this one-off achievement, she had spent time as a backing singer, supporting the efforts of Melissa Manchester, Chaka Khan, and even Leo Sayer. However, her subsequent debut LP's songs failed to achieve commercial success. Although it later spawned, "Save Up All Your Tears" for Cher and "Tears in the Rain" five years later by Jennifer Rush with much greater success.
She is perhaps best remembered for the odd fact that, after waiting thirty-five years in the UK singles chart, for the first instance of three consecutive female vocalists at the top of the chart, she completed the second such occurrence in under a year.
The first sequence in 1988 was Belinda Carlisle, Tiffany and Kylie Minogue; whilst she completed the second, almost unique, threesome of Whitney Houston, Enya, and Robin Beck. However, it also qualified her for the less desirable title of 'one-hit wonder', as it is her one and only single to reach the UK Top 40.
In 2006, the Swedish dance outfit Sunblock sampled Beck's single "The First Time" for their dance track "First Time". Robin Beck can now be seen performing this song, which was released on the 21 May, and reached number 9 in the UK singles chart.
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| Preceded by: "Orinoco Flow" by Enya |
UK number one single November 13, 1988 |
Succeeded by: "Mistletoe and Wine" by Cliff Richard |
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