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"Sweet Inspiration" | |
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Single by the Sweet Inspirations | |
from the album The Sweet Inspirations | |
B-side | "I'm Blue" |
Released | 1967 |
Recorded | 1967 |
Length | 2:50 |
Label | Atlantic |
Songwriter(s) | Wallace Pennington, Lindon Oldham |
Producer(s) | Tom Dowd, Tommy Cogbill |
Sweet Inspiration is the title of a Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham composition written for, and first recorded in 1967 by, the Sweet Inspirations. It became a Top 20 hit reaching #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1968, and a live version by Barbra Streisand, in medley with "Where You Lead", would also become a Top 40 hit.