- Take the Long Way Home
Infobox Single
Name = Take the Long Way Home
Artist =Supertramp
from Album =Breakfast in America
Released = October 1979
Genre = Rock
Length = 5:08
Label = A&M
Writer =Rick Davies /Roger Hodgson
Producer =Supertramp , Peter Henderson
Chart position = * #10 (US)
Last single = "Goodbye Stranger " (1979)
This single = "Take the Long Way Home" (1979)
Next single = "Dreamer (live)" (1980)Take the Long Way Home is a hit single off of
Supertramp 's1979 album "Breakfast in America ". It reached number 10 on the U.S. charts.Quotes
Trivia
*"Take The Long Way Home" was chosen as the #5 favourite song in MOJO Magazine’s readers’ poll in 2006.
*"Take The Long Way Home" is used in a trailer for the FX original series,The Riches .
*Rock bandThe Verve Pipe covered the song during the encore of their holiday hometown show inGrand Rapids, MI in December 2005.
*"Take The Long Way Home" is used in theBBC series Ashes To Ashes as the climatic song in the series finale.
*"Take The Long Way Home" is played at the end of theFreaks and Geeks episode "Looks and Books".
*After appearing in the final episode of the British tv series Ashes to Ashes, the song hit the iTunes charts reaching a place at 100.Personnel
*Roger Hodgson: Vocals, Piano, Electric guitar
*Rick Davies: Harmonica, Hammond organ, Synthesizers
*Dougie Thomson: Bass Guitar
*Bob Siebenberg: Drums
*John A. Helliwell: Soprano saxophone
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