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<p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">"Longer" written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg. The song can be found on Fogelberg's 1979 album Phoenix. It was also included on his 1982 greatest hits album as well as various other retrospective and compilation recordings.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Fogelberg, who had released more rock-oriented songs throughout the 1970s, jokingly described "Longer" in the liner notes to one of his retrospective albums as "the song that put me on the elevators." He wrote the song while vacationing in Maui, "lounging in a hammock one night and looking up at the stars. It just seems this song was drifting around the universe, saw me, and decided I'd give it a good home." Accompanying Fogelberg's vocals is an acoustic guitar (played by the singer) as well as a flugelhorn solo by Jerry Hey.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Lyrically, the song compares various events ("Longer than there've been stars up in the heavens") with his emotional attachment to the one he loves ("I've been in love with you").</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">"Longer" was released as a single in late 1979, prior to the release of the album Phoenix. It became Fogelberg's highest-charting hit of his career, spending two weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in March 1980.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">"Longer" became the first of the singer's four No. 1 songs on the Billboard adult contemporary chart between 1980 and 1984. The song reached No. 85 on the Billboard country music chart.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">In the United Kingdom, "Longer" was Fogelberg's only song to reach the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at No. 59."</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Oh it's just pretty.</span></p>