This One's for You was the seventh album by R&B

Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...

 crooner

Crooner

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 Teddy Pendergrass

Teddy Pendergrass

Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade...

. 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

Spinal cord

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 injury. The album did not do as well as his previous albums did on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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, peaking at only #59, but it did do well on the R&B album chart, reaching #6. Only one single was released: "I Can't Win for Losing," which peaked at only #32 on the R&B charts.

Track listing

1. "I Can't Win for Losing" 4:16 (Victor Carstarphen, Gene McFadden
   Gene McFadden
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   , John Whitehead
   John Whitehead (singer)
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   )
2. "This One's for You
   This One's For You (song)
   "This One's for You" is a the title track from the 1976 album by Barry Manilow with words and music by Manilow and Marty Panzer. "This One's for You" peaked at number twenty-nine on the Billboard Hot 100, and it was Manilow's fifth number one on the Easy Listening chart, reaching the top position...
   
   " 6:18 (Barry Manilow
   Barry Manilow
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   , Marty Panzer)
3. "Loving You Was Good" 3:35 (LeRoy Bell
   LeRoy Bell
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   , Casey James
   Bell and James
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   )
4. "This Gift of Life" 4:27 (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff)
5. "Now Tell Me That You Love Me" 5:15 (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff)
6. "It's Up to You (What You Do With Your Life)" 5:37 (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff)
7. "Don't Leave Me out Along the Road" 3:34 (Richard Roebuck)
8. "Only to You" 3:53 (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)