A Penny for Your Thoughts ( song ) - Wikipedia A Penny for Your Thoughts ( song ) `` A Penny for Your Thoughts '' Single by Tavares from the album New Directions B - side `` The Skin You 're In '' Released September 1982 Format 45 RPM Genre Soul Length 3 : 52 Label Capitol Songwriter ( s ) Kenny Nolan Producer ( s ) Jay Senter, Kenny Nolan Tavares singles chronology `` Loveline '' ( 1981 ) `` A Penny for Your Thoughts '' ( 1982 ) `` Got to Find My Way Back to You '' ( 1983 ) `` Loveline '' ( 1981 ) `` A Penny for Your Thoughts '' ( 1982 ) `` Got to Find My Way Back to You '' ( 1983 ) `` A Penny for Your Thoughts '' is a song by R&B / disco group Tavares in 1982, originally recorded by Marion Jarvis in 1975. It was written by Kenny Nolan. Released from their 1982 album Love Storm, the song became Tavares 's eighth and final US Top 40 hit, peaking at number 33 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number 28 on the Cash Box Top 100. Unlike all of their bigger hits, `` A Penny for Your Thoughts '' did not chart in Canada. Three collections of the group 's work were issued during the early 2000s by Capitol Records, however, because of their label change to RCA the song was not included among their other hits. The B - side of the 45, `` The Skin You 're In '', was also written by Nolan. Charts Chart ( 1982 -- 83 ) Peak position Australia 60 Netherlands 45 New Zealand 17 US Billboard Hot 100 33 US Adult Contemporary 15 US R&B 16 US Cash Box Top 100 28 References Jump up ^ Joel Whitburn 's Top Pop Singles 1955 -- 1990 - ISBN 0 - 89820 - 089 - X Jump up ^ CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, December 25, 1982 Jump up ^ Joel Whitburn 's Top Pop Singles 1955 - 1990 - ISBN 0 - 89820 - 089 - X Jump up ^ Billboard Adult Contemporary Music Chart, January 29, 1983 Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). Top R&B / Hip - Hop Singles : 1942 - 2004. Record Research. p. 567. Jump up ^ CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, December 25, 1982 External links Lyrics of this song Tavares Arthur Paul Tavares Antone Lee Tavares Feliciano Vierra Tavares, Jr. Perry Lee Tavares Studio albums Check It Out Hard Core Poetry In the City Sky High ! Love Storm Future Bound Madam Butterfly Supercharged Love Uprising Loveline New Directions Words and Music Songs `` She 's Gone '' `` It Only Takes a Minute '' `` Free Ride '' `` Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel '' `` Do n't Take Away the Music '' `` Whodunit '' `` More Than a Woman '' `` A Penny for Your Thoughts '' Related articles Feliciano Vierra Tavares This 1980s R&B / soul music song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Penny_for_Your_Thoughts_(song)&oldid=797261285 '' Categories : 1982 songs 1982 singles RCA Records singles Tavares ( group ) songs Songs written by Kenny Nolan 1980s R&B song stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 25 August 2017, at 22 : 38. About Wikipedia

Question: who sings the song a penny for your thoughts
Answer: Tavares