"TIME FOR ME TO FLY" ● REO Speedwagon
REO SPEEDWAGON / L-R: Kevin Cronin, Jesse Harms, Neal Doughty, Bruce Hall, Bryan Hitt, Dave Amato / CBS Records Inc. 1990 Baruck - Consolos Management Publicity Photo - credit: Dennis Keeley / IVOX MEDIA collection
"TIME FOR ME TO FLY" ● REO Speedwagon
The Song● Time for Me to Fly
Writer● Kevin Cronin
Producers● Kevin Cronin, Gary Richrath and Paul Grupp
Recorded● Early 1978
Released● Spring 1978
Players●
:: Kevin Cronin -- vocals, guitar
:: Gary Richrath -- guitar
:: Neal Doughty -- keyboards
:: Bruce Hall -- bass, vocals
:: Alan Gratzer -- drums
Album● You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish (Epic, 1978)
Also on●
:: A Decade of Rock and Roll (Epic, 1980)
:: The Hits (Epic, 1988)
You Can Tune a Piano ● REO Speedwagon
You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish is the seventh studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1978. It was REO Speedwagon’s first album to be co-produced by lead singer Kevin Cronin and lead guitarist Gary Richrath. The album was REO's first to make the Top 40, peaking at No. 29.
Peaking at Number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100, "Time For Me to Fly" was REO Speedwagon's biggest single to date, outperforming its immediate predecessor, "Roll With the Changes," and a live version of "Ridin' the Storm Out" that was released in 1977.
"Time For Me To Fly" had a second chart life, too. Re-released from the 1980 hits collection A Decade Of Rock And Roll, it peaked at Number 77.
A power ballad about ending a love affair to achieve personal freedom, "Time For Me to Fly" foreshadowed the turn the band would take during the early '80s with hits such as "Keep on Loving You," "Take It On the Run," and "In Your Letter."
The amusingly titled You Can Tune a Piano... was the first REO Speedwagon album to hit the Top 30, peaking at Number 29 on the Billboard Top 200 and spending nearly a year on the charts. The album also sold more than two million copies.
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