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How many of you remember when your favorite song had been released once but failed to either make the Top 40 or chart at all, and then on re-issue it charted significantly higher?
Aerosmith have a double honor at this: When "Dream On" was originally released as a single in June 1973, it only made #59, due to it being the edited version (3:25). The song was released as a single again in early 1976, and went all the way to #6 during that spring, due in part to it being the full-length (LP) version (4:28).
"Walk This Way," a song originally from Aerosmith's third LP Toys in the Attic released in 1975, was reissued as a single in October 1976, and peaked at #10 in February 1977.
Eric Clapton's iconic hit "Layla" (recorded with his band, Derek & the Dominos, for whom drummer Jim Gordon had written the piano finale) was another: originally issued as a single in March 1971, the song didn't have much success initially, only going to #51 that May. This was, as with Aerosmith's "Dream On," due in part to it being edited to 2:43 (with Gordon's piano outro missing) for mainstream radio airplay. Reissued in April 1972 (restored to its full-length of 7:10), "Layla" went all the way to #10 that August.
The Police's "Roxanne," released in April 1978, didn't chart at all on her first try. Only after the success of the album she had anchored, Outlandos d'Amour (English: "love outlaws"), did "Roxanne" finally chart, going to #32 in April 1979.
~Ben
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