https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 04 May 2026 04:09:42 +0000 Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:15:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=9893 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62262&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62262 Author: Scanner
Subject: 9893
Posted: 23 November 2022 at 7:15pm

sriv94 wrote: I distinctly remember hearing the song on the radio with the “epilogue” removed-—it edited from the “another old lang syne” lyric right into the sax solo at the end. Custom job, or was this on a promo?

I don't recall hearing this version. However, I do recall
one radio station fading out the song as soon as the "Auld
Lang Syne" outro began. Once Fogelberg's hit streak began
to cool, I only heard this song during the holiday season.
(It's probably the only one of his hits that I hear at all
anymore on the radio!)]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:15:49 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62262&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62262 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62261&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62261 Author: davidlg1971
Subject: 9893
Posted: 23 November 2022 at 6:04pm

I always thought of Same Old Lang Syne as a hybrid Christmas/New Year's song. Which makes sense - the first lyric is "Met my old lover in the grocery store, the snow was falling Christmas Eve..."

In the mid/late 1980s, my local top-40 northern California radio station played Same Old Lang Syne during the Christmas season, I think pretty regularly. Somewhere I probably still have a random 1987 radio segment I taped that included that song, along with a few others like Janet Jackson's Let's Wait Awhile.

An interesting fact is that the story told in the lyrics is mostly true - except that the real ex-girlfriend's eyes were green, not blue.

Edited by davidlg1971]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:04:06 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62261&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62261 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62251&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62251 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 9893
Posted: 23 November 2022 at 3:42am

Another odd example. Billy Joel refers to his song "She's Right on Time" as his
Christmas song. It has one line that mentions Christmas in it - but no other line
in the song seems to be about Christmas at all. So IMHO, I don't really think of
it as a Christmas song - just because it mentions the word once. Even the
spirit of the song doesn't feel like a Christmas song.]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 03:42:30 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62251&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62251 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62250&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62250 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 9893
Posted: 23 November 2022 at 3:37am

Paul Haney wrote: I never thought of it as a holiday song. It's more a romantic song about lost love that just happens to be set during the holidays. And based on a true story, BTW.

I agree with Paul's point of view. I'll also add that when it was a hit, I was in
college, and in my college dorm, we just thought of it as a regular song
(that mentioned 'old lang syne'). I don't think any of us thought we were
listening to a Christmas song as it was climbing and falling down the chart.
Because of the Dec 31st reference in the title, it started getting added to
Christmas playlists and probably Christmas stations on Sirius XM. But I
really don't think of it as a holiday song.

Whereas "Winter Wonderland" is on so many Xmas albums, it is considered
one, though the holiday isn't mentioned. If we gave it some thought, I'm
sure we could come up with a long list of "Christmas" songs that never
mention the word "Christmas" in them. ]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 03:37:41 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62250&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62250 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62243&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62243 Author: Jody Thornton
Subject: 9893
Posted: 22 November 2022 at 11:18am

Hykker wrote: Personally, I'm so tired of this song if I never hear it again it would be OK. Not really a holiday song per se, but it's kind of become one over the years. Then again, "Frosty The Snowman" or "Sleigh Ride" aren't really either let alone "My Favorite Things", but most people consider them to be.

Wow! I could never hate this song, but again, I don't hear it all of the time either. In the last decade, every time I've heard it, I played it off an LP at home, or else it's a burned CD in the car. Never on the radio though.

Mind you, I can relate to your sentiment with a lot of classic rock material. If I never heard the Eagles again, minus a couple of lesser hits, I'd be just fine.
]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:18:40 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62243&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62243 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62242&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62242 Author: JMD1961
Subject: 9893
Posted: 22 November 2022 at 9:27am

Add "Winter Wonderland" to the list of Christmas songs
that never mentions the holiday.

And for a chart hit that I've always questioned... New
Kids on the Block's "This One's For The Children",
considered a Christmas song strictly because it appears
on their holiday collection.]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:27:57 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62242&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62242 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62241&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62241 Author: Hykker
Subject: 9893
Posted: 22 November 2022 at 6:25am

sriv94 wrote: I distinctly remember hearing the song on the radio with the “epilogue” removed-—it edited from the “another old lang syne” lyric right into the sax solo at the end. Custom job, or was this on a promo?

Just checked my promo, and it has the 5:18 version on both sides. I don't think I've ever heard an edit of this song, so it seems
likely what you heard was a house edit.

Personally, I'm so tired of this song if I never hear it again it would be OK. Not really a holiday song per se, but it's kind of
become one over the years. Then again, "Frosty The Snowman" or "Sleigh Ride" aren't really either let alone "My Favorite Things",
but most people consider them to be.]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:25:00 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62241&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62241 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62240&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62240 Author: VWestlife
Subject: 9893
Posted: 21 November 2022 at 10:58pm

The Annie Lennox and Al Green version of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" is also considered to be a Christmas song, because it was featured on the soundtrack of the Christmas movie "Scrooged", even though the lyrics of the song don't have anything to do with the holiday season, and radio stations play it all year round.
]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:58:12 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62240&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62240 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62239&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62239 Author: NightAire
Subject: 9893
Posted: 21 November 2022 at 9:43pm

I think of it as a holiday song, but it tests well enough to be played all year round on my 80s station.]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2022 21:43:30 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62239&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62239 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62238&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62238 Author: sriv94
Subject: 9893
Posted: 21 November 2022 at 1:16pm

I distinctly remember hearing the song on the radio with the “epilogue” removed-—it edited from the “another old lang syne”
lyric right into the sax solo at the end.

Custom job, or was this on a promo?

Edited by sriv94]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:16:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9893&PID=62238&title=dan-fogelberg-same-old-lang-syne#62238