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"Same Old Lang Syne" is a song written and recorded by Dan Fogelberg and released as a single in 1980. It was included on his 1981 album The Innocent Age.The song is an autobiographical narrative ballad told in the first person and tells the story of two long-ago romantic interests meeting by chance in a grocery store on Christmas Eve. [3]
The Innocent Age is a double album by American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, released in 1981.It was one of his most successful albums: three of his four Top 10 singles on the Billboard pop chart ("Hard to Say" (no. 7), "Same Old Lang Syne" (no. 9), and "Leader of the Band" (no. 9)) were from this album, as well as another Top 20 single in "Run for the Roses" (no. 18).
Fogelberg Parkway continues to the intersection of N. Prospect and E. Frye, the location of the convenience store where Fogelberg ran into his high school sweetheart one Christmas Eve – as described in the song "Same Old Lang Syne". [18] A group of Fogelberg fans created a memorial garden in Riverfront Park in 2010. [18]
We sing "Auld Lang Syne" at the end of every single year, but as Mariah Carey asks in her indelible version, ... "Auld Lang Syne" directly translates to "old long since" in 18th-century Scots ...
Historians call it “the song that nobody knows.” And yet we’ve all tried to sing it on New Year's Eve. The post What Does “Auld Lang Syne” Really Mean? appeared first on Reader's Digest.
"Same Old Lang Syne" – 6:24 "There's a Place in the World for a Gambler" – 8:12; Personnel. Dan Fogelberg – lead vocals, keyboards, guitars;
What does "Auld Lang Syne" mean? "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots phrase that literally translates to "old long since," but has taken on a more fluid definition along the lines of "for old time's sake ...
"Leader of the Band" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg for his 1981 album The Innocent Age. The song was written as a tribute to his father Lawrence Fogelberg, a musician and leader of a band who was still alive when the song was released.