Keep the Fire Burnin'

""Keep the Fire Burnin""
Single by REO Speedwagon
from the album Good Trouble
B-side "I'll Follow You"
Released June 1982
Format 7"
Recorded 1982
Genre Rock
Length 3:53
Label Epic
Writer(s) Kevin Cronin
REO Speedwagon singles chronology
"In Your Letter" (1980) "Keep the Fire Burnin'" (1982) "Sweet Time" (1982)

"Keep the Fire Burnin" is the title of a 1982 song by REO Speedwagon from their 1982 album Good Trouble. This single was the only track from the Good Trouble album to make the top ten on the pop charts, cresting at number seven.[1] It is also the only tune from the album to feature Kevin Cronin on keyboards (piano), which, although primarily the band's lead singer and acoustic/rhythm guitarist, he had begun using (in the studio) on the You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish album.[2]

This is the only song from the bands' Good Trouble album to have been performed live following its supporting tour in 1983. Despite that fact however it is still a significant rarity in the bands' setlists that has only been performed a handful of times over the last 30 years. In addition, it is also for unknown reasons the only one of the bands' major hit singles that was not included on their compilation album The Hits.

Personnel

REO Speedwagon

Other Personnel

Charts

Peak positions

Chart (1982) Peak
Position
Canada (CHUM)[3] 2
Canadian RPM Singles Chart[4] 10
Germany Media Control Charts[5] 68
Poland (LP3)[6] 8
US Billboard Hot 100[7] 7
US Top Rock Tracks[7] 2
US Cash Box[8] 10
US Radio & Records (R&R)[9][10] 8

Year-end charts

Chart (1982) Peak
position
Canada (RPM Top 100 Singles)[11] 88
US Billboard Hot 100[12] 50
US Cash Box[13] 63

References

  1. ↑ "The Billboard Hot 100 chart". Billboard. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  2. ↑ REO-Speedwagon – Keep the Fire Burning/I'll Follow You single
  3. ↑ CHART NUMBER 1333 – Saturday, August 07, 1982 at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 November 2006). CHUM. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Top Singles – Volume 37, No. 2, August 28, 1982". RPM. RPM Music Publications Ltd. August 28, 1982. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Discographie REO Speedwagon". officialcharts.de. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Keep the Fire Burning - R.E.O. Speedwagon" (in Polish). LP3. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Good Trouble Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending AUGUST 7, 1982 at the Wayback Machine (archived 21 September 2012). Cash Box magazine. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  9. ↑ REO Speedwagon
  10. ↑ Charts!
  11. ↑ "Top Singles – Volume 37, No. 19, December 25, 1982". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  12. ↑ "Top 100 Hits for 1982". The Longbored Surfer. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  13. ↑ The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1982 at the Wayback Machine (archived 21 September 2012). Cash Box magazine. Retrieved 19 February 2015.

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