Lorelei (Styx song)

"Lorelei"
Single by Styx
from the album Equinox
B-side "Midnight Ride"
Released March 1976
Format 7"
Recorded 1975 at Paragon Recording Studios, Chicago
Genre Rock
Label A&M
Writer(s) Dennis DeYoung
James Young
Styx singles chronology
"You Need Love"
(1975)		 "Lorelei"
(1976)		 "Mademoiselle"
(1976)

"Lorelei" is a song from rock band Styx. It is on their 1975 album Equinox, and was released as a single in 1976.

Background

The song peaked at number 27 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was the band's second top 40 hit single.[1] Lorelei also hit number six on the Canadian charts during the weeks of May 8 and 15, 1976.

Chicago radio superstation WLS, which gave the song much airplay, ranked "Lorelei" as the 77th most popular hit of 1976.[2] It reached as high as number eight (for two weeks) on their surveys of April 17 and 24, 1976.[3]

"Lorelei" was one of the songs that Styx re-recorded for their Regeneration: Volume 1 EP in 2010 with James Young singing lead as the original singer of the song Dennis DeYoung was no longer with the band. When DeYoung left the band in 1999, Young took over of singing lead vocal of the song.

Personnel

Composition

"Lorelei" is written in D-Major with a moderately fast rock tempo.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1976) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[1] 27
Canada[4] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (1976) Rank
Canada[5] 77
U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[6] 163

References

  1. 1 2 "Lorelei" Billboard Hot 100 Chart history. Accessed May 27, 2012.
  2. ↑ "The WLS Big 89 of 1976". Wlshistory.com.
  3. ↑ "wls042476". Users.qwest.net. 1963-12-12. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  4. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  5. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  6. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
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