Song on the Radio
"Song on the Radio" is a composition by Al Stewart introduced on his 1978 album release Time Passages. [1]
"Song on the Radio" | ||||
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Single by Al Stewart | ||||
from the album Time Passages | ||||
B-side | "A Man For All Seasons" | |||
Released | January 1979 | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 4:10 | |||
Label | Arista Records 0389 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Al Stewart | |||
Producer(s) | Alan Parsons | |||
Al Stewart singles chronology | ||||
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Background
Al Stewart on Song on the Radio |
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"I was kind of making fun of Arista Records" who had "asked for a mid-tempo ballad with a saxophone...They wanted a song that could be played on the radio, [so] very tongue-in-cheek I wrote...'Song on the Radio'. I thought they'd [get that] I was actually joking, but of course they didn't & ...put it out as a single [which] made the Top 30, [so] the joke was on me because I screwed up a preposition" - referring to the opening lines "I was making my way through the wasteland/ The road into town passes through" which ends with a preposition - "Worse, I used the same word [through] twice in the same sentence."[2] |
"Song on the Radio" was released in January 1979 as the second single from the Time Passages album, following the title cut which had been a Top Ten hit on the Hot 100 in Billboard magazine[3] whose Adult Contemporary chart had afforded "Time Passages" a ten week tenure at No. 1[4]
"Song on the Radio" would peak at No. 29 on the Hot 100[5] and rise as high as No. 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart[6]
In Canada "Song on the Radio" also peaked at No. 29 on the national hit parade as ranked by RPM magazine[7] whose Adult Contemporary chart afforded the track a peak of No. 3.[8]
Chart performance
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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References
- Time Passages - Al Stewart|AllMusic
- Al Stewart’s cast of characters - Boulder Weekly
- "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
- Billboard Adult Contemporary, March 24, 1979
- "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
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