Dave's Song of the Day
Living in the Past – Jethro Tull
Wednesday song of the day: Today’s song didn’t become a hit in the United States until six years after its initial release.
Jethro Tull recorded
Living in the Past around the same time as their 1969 album
Stand Up, but it was released as a non-album single in the United Kingdom. It did well, reaching #3 on the UK singles chart.
Living in the Past was not available in the United States until it was released as the title track of the
Living in the Past compilation album in 1972.
After the album was released, the song was finally released as a single in the United States a few years after that. It did very well, reaching #11 on the
Billboard Hot 100. Jethro Tull has had many classic songs, but they have always been an album rather than a singles act. Thus, while
Living in the Past isn’t the first song you think of (that would probably be
Aqualung), it is Jethro Tull’s highest charting single, edging out the #12 hit
Bungle in the Jungle from 1974.
Tomorrow: Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind