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The song was a reaction to the varying difficult issues facing America in the late 1970s – the fallout from the Watergate scandal, the simultaneous double-digit inflation, unemployment, and prime interest rates (leading to the misery index), and the 1979–1981 Iran Hostage Crisis.
It is sometimes considered the first doo-wop or rock and roll record to reach the top ten on the pop charts (as opposed to the R&B charts), as it was a top-10 hit that year for both the Chords (who first recorded the song) and the Crew-Cuts. [2] In 2004, it was ranked No. 215 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time". [3]
"Life Is a Long Song" is a song composed by Ian Anderson and first recorded by Jethro Tull. It was released as the lead track on an EP of the same name on 3 September 1971, [1] which reached No. 11 in the UK charts. [2] The song later appeared on the 1972 compilation album Living in the Past. [3]
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the longest-running No. 1 song in the United States this year, claiming a ninth (non-consecutive) week at No. 1 atop the Billboard Hot 100. Sabrina ...
ORGAN 2 /ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of the second-longest-lasting (after Longplayer) musical performance yet undertaken. [1] Cage wrote it in 1987 for organ, as an adaptation of his 1985 composition ASLSP for piano. A performance of the piano version usually lasts 20 to 70 minutes. [2]
The song reached number 15 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the week ending September 6, 1969, [4] and number 12 on the Cash Box Top 100. [5] In Canada, "I'd Wait a Million Years" spent three weeks at number 12.
Dec. 2—André 3000 was clearly not trying to generate a pop hit single from his "New Blue Sun" instrumental album, but one song debuted this week on the Billboard Hot 100 and it is now ...
From technical to whimsical, prepare for your vocabulary to be stretched with 20 of the longest words in English. Plus, find out what they mean. Related: 55 Examples of Onomatopoeia