“Foreplay/Long Time” is a song by the rock band Boston, released on the band’s eponymous debut album, and as their second single, on Epic Records in 1976. It combines an instrumental introduction, “Foreplay,” to the main song “Long Time,” generally played as one on the radio and listed as one track on the album. It peaked at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1977, and #11 on the singles chart in the United Kingdom.

In an interview for the ‘Best of Boston’ CD, Scholz said that ‘Foreplay’ was the first thing he ever recorded, and he did this on a two-track machine in his basement.

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In summer 1962, seventeen-year-old keyboardist Booker T. Jones, twenty-year-old guitarist Steve Cropper, bass player Lewie Steinberg, and Al Jackson Jr., a drummer making his debut with the company, were in the Memphis studio to back up former Sun Records star Billy Lee Riley. During downtime, the four started playing around with a bluesy little organ ditty reminiscent of Ray Charles. Jim Stewart, the president of Stax Records, liked what he heard and hit the “record” button. He liked the finished product enough to want to release it.^[9] Cropper remembered a riff that Jones had come up with weeks earlier and before long, they had a second song.

Stewart wanted to release the single with the first song, titled “Behave Yourself”, as the A-side and the second song as the B-side. Steve Cropper and radio disc jockeys thought otherwise; soon, Stax released Booker T. & the M.G.’s’ “Green Onions” backed with “Behave Yourself”. In conversation with BBC Radio 2′s Johnnie Walker, on his show broadcast on September 7, 2008, Steve Cropper revealed that the record became an instant success when DJ Reuben Washington, at Memphis radio station WLOK, played it four times in succession, this even before the tune or the band had an agreed name.

The single went to number one on the R&B charts and number three on the Pop charts and is now considered one of the most important riffs in rock history. It is featured in countless movies/trailers including a pivotal scene in the motion picture American Graffiti and on TV every year.

“Fame” is a song recorded by David Bowie, initially released in 1975 and in remixed versions, in 1990.

With the Young Americans sessions mostly concluded in late 1974, the material was delayed while Bowie extricated himself from his contract with manager Tony DeFries. During this time he was staying in New York, and met John Lennon. The pair socialised and jammed together, which led to a one-day session at Electric Lady Studios in January 1975. There, Bowie contacted several members of his tour band. Firstly a cover of The Beatles’ “Across the Universe” was recorded. Then a new song called “Fame”, inspired by “Walk On”, from the Jackson Five’s “Going Back to Indiana” live album, and a guitar riff written by Carlos Alomar and with the title from Lennon, was then hurriedly developed by Bowie, and recorded. Both tracks were then added to the Young Americans album. Despite having only a minor contribution, Lennon was given a co-writing credit due to the lyrics (bemoaning the nature of celebrity) being inspired by conversations he had with Bowie on the subject, and because Bowie acknowledged that Lennon singing “Fame!” over Alomar’s guitar riff was the catalyst for the song. The songwriting credit list order is David Bowie, Carlos Alomar, and John Lennon. Lennon’s voice is also heard singing the repeated words “FAME, FAME,FAME” with his voice heard at a fast, normal, and slow track, making it sound like a recording on the fast and slow speeds, until Bowie’s voice is heard singing the final lyrics of the song before the fade.

“Owner of a Lonely Heart” is a song by the progressive rock band Yes. It is the opening track of their 1983 album 90125. Written primarily by Trevor Rabin (who was new to the band at the time), the song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 — to date Yes’ biggest chart success by far.

“Goodbye Stranger” is a song by Supertramp, which first appeared on their 1979 album Breakfast in America.

The main “body” of the song is backed by a simple electric piano melody; the arrangement intensifies as the song progresses. This is eventually joined by intermittent electric guitar chords and bass. The song features several layers of vocals to complete the melody. Rick Davies sings the lead vocals and plays the Wurlitzer electric piano while Roger Hodgson sings background vocals on the chorus and plays the electric guitar, including the guitar solo during the conclusion. The song features falsetto vocals during the chorus, similar to those of the Bee Gees.

The track was one of three off Breakfast in America with a music video. In the video, the band play the track on a soundstage. Roger Hodgson and John Helliwell lip synch. In addition, John plays a Hammond organ.

It was featured on the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati on the episode “Baby, If You Ever Wondered”. It was also featured on the 1999 soundtrack to Magnolia album, along with “The Logical Song”.

“The Logical Song” was a hit on its original release, reaching number 7 in the United Kingdom, number 6 in the United States and spent two weeks at number 1 on the Canadian RPM Singles Chart for two weeks.

The lyrics are a “story of innocence and idealism lost” with Hodgson condemning an education system not focused on knowledge and sensitivity.

The song tells the story of a man who:

• is taken away from the unspoilt immediacy of childhood (When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical),
• undergoes education (but then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical),
• sees a future prepared for him lacking any spontaneity of reaction (And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical),
• feels constricted in his freedom of speech (Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal),
• is put under pressure to conform (Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable)
• and ends up confused, without a coherent self-image (please tell me who I am).

“Down Under” (also known as “Land Down Under“) is a pop song recorded by Men at Work for their debut album Business as Usual (1982). The song went to #1 on American,British, and Australian charts. It was reissued in 1982 and is the only Men at Work song that went to #1 in the UK. It has become a popular and patriotic song in Australia.

“Boogie Fever” is a song performed by Memphis, Tennessee-based R&B group The Sylvers, from their 1975 album Showcase. Their most lucrative single, it reached number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts in 1976, and was their third of nine Top 20 R&B hits and first top 40 pop single.

“Up, Up and Away” is a 1967 song written by Jimmy Webb and recorded by The 5th Dimension, that became a major pop hit, reaching #7 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart and sold well in Canada. The single peaked at #9 on Billboard’s Easy Listening Top 40.