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"Same Old Lang Syne" is a song written and recorded by Dan Fogelberg and released as a single in 1980. It was included on his 1981 album The Innocent Age.The song is an autobiographical narrative ballad told in the first person and tells the story of two long-ago romantic interests meeting by chance in a grocery store on Christmas Eve. [3]
The Innocent Age is a double album by American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, released in 1981.It was one of his most successful albums: three of his four Top 10 singles on the Billboard pop chart ("Hard to Say" (no. 7), "Same Old Lang Syne" (no. 9), and "Leader of the Band" (no. 9)) were from this album, as well as another Top 20 single in "Run for the Roses" (no. 18).
Fogelberg Parkway continues to the intersection of N. Prospect and E. Frye, the location of the convenience store where Fogelberg ran into his high school sweetheart one Christmas Eve – as described in the song "Same Old Lang Syne". [18] A group of Fogelberg fans created a memorial garden in Riverfront Park in 2010. [18] In 2017, ten years ...
Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" was released as a single in late 1980. Based on a 1975 visit to his native Peoria, the autobiographical ballad recounts a serendipitous Christmas Eve encounter ...
As a song, “Auld Lang Syne” first became popularized in the U.S. in 1929, when bandleader Guy Lombardo and his brothers performed it, Alexander said. The brothers had a band, The Royal ...
Historians call it “the song that nobody knows.” And yet we’ve all tried to sing it on New Year's Eve. The post What Does “Auld Lang Syne” Really Mean? appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Same Old Lang Syne; Stars (Dan Fogelberg song) T. To the Morning This page was last edited on 29 October 2024, at 07:51 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The phrase “for auld lang syne” essentially means “for (the sake of) old times”, which positions it as an apt song to sing at a time when people reflect on the past 12 months.