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词条 Song on the Radio
释义

  1. Background

  2. Chart performance

     Weekly charts  Year-end charts 

  3. References

  4. External links

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| cover = Song_on_the_Radio_-_Al_Stewart.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Al Stewart
| album = Time Passages
| B-side = A Man For All Seasons
| released = January 1979
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| genre = Pop rock
| length = {{Duration|m=4|s=10}}
| label = Arista Records 0389
| writer = Al Stewart
| producer = Alan Parsons
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| prev_year = 1978
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| next_year = 1980
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"Song on the Radio" is a composition by Al Stewart introduced on his 1978 album release Time Passages.

Background

Al Stewart on Song on the Radio
"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."[1]

"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[2] whose Adult Contemporary chart had afforded "Time Passages" a ten week tenure at No. 1[3]

"Song on the Radio" would peak at No. 29 on the Hot 100[4] and rise as high as No. 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart[5]

In Canada "Song on the Radio" also peaked at No. 29 on the national hit parade as ranked by RPM magazine[6] whose Adult Contemporary chart afforded the track a peak of No. 3.[7]

Chart performance

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Weekly charts

Chart (1979)Peak
position
Canada RPM Top Singles [6]29
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary [7]3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[8]29
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[9]10
U.S. Cash Box Top 10027
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Year-end charts

Chart (1979)Rank
Canada RPM Top Singles [10]187
U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[11]175
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References

1. ^http://www.boulderweekly.com/entertainment/al-stewarts-cast-characters/
2. ^https://www.billboard.com/music/al-stewart/chart-history/hot-100/song/336074
3. ^https://www.billboard.com/music/al-stewart/chart-history/adult-contemporary/song/381201
4. ^https://www.billboard.com/music/al-stewart/chart-history/hot-100/song/336219
5. ^https://www.billboard.com/music/al-stewart/chart-history/adult-contemporary/song/381267
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4531a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4531a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4531a |title=Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada |website=Bac-lac.gc.ca |date= |accessdate=2016-10-15}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4748&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4748.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4748 |title=Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada |website=Bac-lac.gc.ca |date= |accessdate=2016-10-15}}
8. ^Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - {{ISBN|0-89820-089-X}}
9. ^Billboard Adult Contemporary, March 24, 1979
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6855b&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6855b.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6855b |title=Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada |website=Bac-lac.gc.ca |date= |accessdate=2016-10-15}}
11. ^{{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |date=1999 |title=Pop Annual |url= |location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |publisher=Record Research Inc. |page= |isbn=0-89820-142-X}}

External links

  • {{MetroLyrics song|al-stewart|song-on-the-radio}}
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