Who sang the song on the radio

Q: Who played on song on the radio?

Song on the Radio is a composition by Al Stewart introduced on his 1978 album release Time Passages.

"Song on the Radio" is a composition by Al Stewart introduced on his 1978 album release Time Passages. [1]

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Background[edit]
Who originally sang the song Radio?
How can I find a song that was heard on the radio?
Who played on song on the radio?
What's the song on the radio about?

Background[edit]

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."[2]

"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[3] whose Adult Contemporary chart had afforded "Time Passages" a ten week tenure at No. 1[4]

"Song on the Radio" would peak at No. 29 on the Hot 100[5] and rise as high as No. 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart[6]

In Canada "Song on the Radio" also peaked at No. 29 on the national hit parade as ranked by RPM magazine[7] whose Adult Contemporary chart afforded the track a peak of No. 3.[8]

Who originally sang the song Radio?

Radio Song.

How can I find a song that was heard on the radio?

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Who played on song on the radio?

"Song on the Radio" is a composition by Al Stewart introduced on his 1978 album release Time Passages.

What's the song on the radio about?

Donna Summer wrote this disco hit with record producer Giorgio Moroder for Adrian Lyne's 1980 teen drama Foxes, starring Jodie Foster, Scott Baio and Runaways singer Cherie Currie. In the song, Summer is pining for a lost love and hopes to reconnect by broadcasting her feelings on the radio.