Song on the Radio

"Song on the Radio"
Single by Al Stewart
from the album Time Passages
B-side "A Man For All Seasons"
Released January 1979
Genre Pop rock
Length 4:10
Label Arista Records 0389
Songwriter(s) Al Stewart
Producer(s) Alan Parsons
Al Stewart singles chronology
"Time Passages"
(1978)		 "Song on the Radio"
(1979)		 "Midnight Rocks"
(1980)

"Time Passages"
(1978)		 "Song on the Radio"
(1979)		 "Midnight Rocks"
(1980)

"Song on the Radio" is a song written and performed by Al Stewart. The song reached No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100,[1] No. 27 on the Cash Box Top 100 and No. 29 on the Canadian pop singles chart in the spring of 1979.[2]

Al Stewart on Song on the Radio
"The record company asked for a mid-tempo ballad with a saxophone on it, and I was kind of making fun of Arista Records. They wanted a song that could be played on the radio, and very tongue-in-cheek I wrote a song called 'Song on the Radio'. I thought they'd be smart enough to see I was actually joking, but of course they didn't, and they put it out as a single and it made the Top 30, and 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."[3]

The song was a considerably larger Adult Contemporary hit, reaching number 10 on the U.S. AC chart, and spent three weeks at number three on the Canadian AC chart.[4]

"Song on the Radio" appeared on his 1978 album, Time Passages. It was produced by Alan Parsons.[5]













Chart performance

References

  1. ↑ "Al Stewart, "Song on the Radio" chart positions". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  3. ↑ http://www.boulderweekly.com/entertainment/al-stewarts-cast-characters/
  4. 1 2 "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  5. ↑ "Al Stewart, Time Passages". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  6. ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  7. ↑ Billboard Adult Contemporary, March 24, 1979
  8. ↑ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  9. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
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