It was also included on his 1982 greatest hits album as well as various other retrospective and compilation recordings.

"[2] He wrote the song while vacationing in Maui, "lounging in a hammock one night and looking up at the stars.

"[2] Accompanying Fogelberg's vocals is an acoustic guitar (played by the singer) as well as a flugelhorn solo by Jerry Hey.

It became Fogelberg's highest-charting hit song of his career, spending two weeks at No.

[2] In the United Kingdom, "Longer" was Fogelberg's only song to reach the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at No.