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<p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Reminiscing_-_Little_River_Band.jpg/220px-Reminiscing_-_Little_River_Band.jpg" height="220" width="220"></p><p><br></p><p>"<strong>Reminiscing</strong>" is a song by Australian soft rock music group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_River_Band" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Little River Band</a>, released in June 1978 as the second single from their fourth studio album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeper_Catcher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Sleeper Catcher</em></a>. The song was written by the band's rhythm guitarist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeham_Goble" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Graeham Goble</a>, and sung by their lead singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Shorrock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Glenn Shorrock</a>. "Reminiscing" peaked at number 35 on the Australian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Music_Report" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kent Music Report</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscing#cite_note-aus-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a> and at No. 3 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em> Hot 100</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscing#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a></p><h2>Background and recording</h2><p>In 2005, Goble spoke of his inspiration and recording of the song, saying "I loved watching old black and white movies, and I always also loved the music of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Glenn Miller</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Porter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cole Porter</a>, that whole era of writing, and it was my attempt to write a song to depict the romantic era. It came out very quickly, I wrote it in about half an hour. Even though a lot of people think it sounds complicated, on the guitar it's very simple to play. It nearly never got recorded – when the time came to record it, the keyboard player I wanted to use, Peter Jones, was out of town, so we cut the band track with a different keyboard player. It didn't work. A few days later when we tried it again with a different keyboard player, again it didn't work, and the band was losing interest in the song. Just before the album was finished, Peter Jones came back into town, the band and I had an argument because I wanted to give Reminiscing a third chance. Peter played on it, we cut it, and finished it, and sent the album to Capitol. Capitol said that they couldn't hear any singles on the album, and didn't know what to release. Five weeks later, someone at Capitol's New York office said 'You're all crazy, Reminiscing is a smash.' Capitol put it out, and it just immediately caught on fire, and became our highest chart hit."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscing#cite_note-Miller-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a> Goble added "It's quite staggering; you don't realise you've written something like that until it happens, until it's history."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscing#cite_note-KrugerBook-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[5]</a></p><h2>Reception</h2><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_World" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Record World</em></a> called it "a highly danceable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_ballad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ballad</a>" and praised the lead vocal performance.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscing#cite_note-rw-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[6]</a></p><h2>Impact and legacy</h2><p>At the Australian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_pop_music_awards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1978 King of Pop Awards</a>, the song won Australian Record of the Year.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscing#cite_note-Top40TV-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[7]</a></p><p>"Reminiscing" was given a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Music,_Inc." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BMI</a> Five Million-Air award for five million plays on US radio—the highest achievement ever for any Australian popular song.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscing#cite_note-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[8]</a></p><p>According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Goldman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Albert Goldman</a>'s biography, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Lennon</a> named "Reminiscing" as one of his favourite songs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Pang" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">May Pang</a>, erstwhile girlfriend of Lennon, said "Oddly, with all the fantastic music he wrote, "our song" was 'Reminiscing' by the Little River Band."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscing#cite_note-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[9]</a></p>