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Foreplay/Long Time
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| Song by Boston | |||||
| Album | Boston | ||||
| Released | 1976 | ||||
| Recorded | 1975 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 2:25/7:47 (with Long Time) | ||||
| Label | Epic Records | ||||
| Writer | Tom Scholz | ||||
| Producer | John Boylan & Tom Scholz | ||||
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| "Long Time" | |||||
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| Single by Boston from the album Boston |
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| Released | 1977 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 5:22 | ||||
| Label | Epic Records | ||||
| Producer | John Boylan & Tom Scholz | ||||
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"Foreplay/Long Time" are two popular rock songs commonly grouped together from the classic rock band Boston, on the 1976 eponymous Boston album. It combines two songs, "Foreplay" and "Long Time" which are generally played as one on radio and are listed as "Foreplay/Long Time" on the album, as one track.
"Foreplay" is a progressive instrumental prelude, primarily consisting of rapid triplet arpeggios on Hammond B3 organ with a bass part doubled by a piano, and drums, with lead guitar joining at the end. According to Tom Scholz, leader and producer of Boston, the synthesizer-like swoops were not produced with synthesizers, but rather by scraping a pick along a string of a guitar. It was written in 1969. In February of 1977, the song hit #22 on the U.S. charts, and #11 on charts in the UK .[1]
"Long Time" is a lyrical song released as a single. It was one of the band's biggest hits.
"Long Time" was used as the background music for a series of television commercials, titled "Timeless," for NASCAR in 2004, featuring a hypothetical race between drivers and cars of all eras of NASCAR competition.
A part of the song was played in the tv-series The Sopranos in the episode "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" (2006).
"Foreplay/Long Time" is a playable track in the video game Rock Band.
The beginning of the song was played in an episode of the TV-show Supernatural.
- Brad Delp - vocals, all singing parts and harmony underdubs
- Sib Hashian - drums
- Barry Goudreau - lead guitars, rhythm guitars (electric)
- Tom Scholz - rhythm guitars (acoustic), organ, clavinet, bass guitar
- ^ Rock Movers & Shakers by Dafydd Rees & Luke Crampton, 1991 Billboard Books.