Longer

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Name = Longer


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Artist = Dan Fogelberg
Album = Phoenix
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Released = 1979
Format = 7" (45 rpm)
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Genre = Adult contemporary, Pop
Length = 3:15
Label = Full Moon Records
Writer = Dan Fogelberg
Producer = Dan Fogelberg, Norbert Putnam, Morty Lewis
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"Longer" is the title of a popular song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg. The song can be found on Fogelberg's 1980 album "Phoenix". It was also included on his 1982 greatest hits album as well as various other retrospective and compilation recordings.

Fogelberg, who had released more rock-oriented songs throughout the 1970s, jokingly described "Longer" in the liner notes to one of his retrospective albums as "the song that put me on the elevators."Hyatt, Wesley (1999). "The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits" (Billboard Publications)] He wrote the song while vacationing in Maui "...lounging in a hammock one night and looking up at the stars. It just seems this song was drifting around the universe, saw me, and decided I'd give it a good home." Accompanying Fogelberg's vocals is an acoustic guitar (played by the singer) as well as a flugelhorn solo by Jerry Hey.

Lyrically, the song compares various events ("Longer than there've been stars up in the heavens") with his emotional attachment to the one he loves ("I've been in love with you").

Charts

"Longer" was released as a single in late 1979, prior to the release of the album "Phoenix". It became Fogelberg's highest-charting hit of his career, spending two weeks at #2 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in March 1980. [Whitburn, Joel (1996). "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits", 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)] It was kept from the summit the first week by "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen, and remained in the runner-up spot the next week behind "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd. In addition, "Longer" became the first of the singer's four #1 songs on the "Billboard" adult contemporary chart between 1980 and 1984. The song also reached #85 on the "Billboard" country music chart.

In the United Kingdom, "Longer" was Fogelberg's only song to reach the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at #59. [ [http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=8724 UK Singles Chart info at chartstats.com] ]

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