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Stairway to Heaven (Neil Sedaka song)

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B-side
  
"Forty Winks Away"

Format
  
45 rpm single

Genre
  
Released
  
1960

Recorded
  
1960

Label
  
RCA Victor

"Stairway to Heaven" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. It was released as a 45 rpm single and appeared on Sedaka's 1960 album Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits.

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Personnel

The personnel includes King Curtis on saxophone, Don Arnone, Art Ryerson and Everett Barksdale on guitar, Milt Hinton on bass, Irving Faberman on timpani and Dave "Panama" Francis on drums.

Reception

"Stairway to Heaven" became a hit for Sedaka after "Oh! Carol" (1958). In 1960 it repeated the performance of the previous single by peaking at number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Sedaka's "Stairway to Heaven" predates by 11 years Led Zeppelin's song of the same name, which was released in 1971 and written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.

References

Stairway to Heaven (Neil Sedaka song) Wikipedia


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