B-side "Midnight Ride" Format 7" Label A&M | Released March 1976 Genre Rock | |
Recorded 1975 at Paragon Recording Studios, Chicago | ||
"Lorelei" is a song from rock band Styx. It is on their 1975 album Equinox, and was released as a single in 1976.
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Background
The song peaked at number 27 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was the band's second top 40 hit single. 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. It reached as high as number eight (for two weeks) on their surveys of April 17 and 24, 1976.
"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.
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Composition
"Lorelei" is written in D-Major with a moderately fast rock tempo.