Dan Fogelberg — Greatest Hits (Vinyl)

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• 9 anonymous Oct 09, 2013

  I love this song since the song was autobiographical. Dan was visiting family back home in Peoria, Illinois in the mid-70s when he ran into an old girlfriend at a convenience store. After Fogelberg's death from prostate cancer in 2007, the woman about whom he wrote the song came forward with her story. Her name is Jill Greulich, and she and Fogelberg dated in high school when she was Jill Anderson. As she explained in a 2007 newspaper article, they were part of the Woodruff High School class of '69, but went to different colleges. After college, Jill got married and moved to Chicago, and Dan went to Colorado to pursue music. On December 24, 1975, they were each back in Peoria with their families for Christmas. Jill went out for eggnog and Dan to find whipping cream for Irish coffee. The only place open was a convenience store where they had their encounter. Today, the store is still in business. They bought a six pack of beer and drank it in her car for two hours while they talked. Five years later, Jill heard "Same Old Lang Syne" on the radio while driving to work, but she kept quiet about it, as Fogelberg also refused to reveal her identity. Her main concern was that coming forward would disrupt Fogelberg's marriage. According to Jill there are two inaccuracies in the lyrics: She has green eyes, not blue, and her husband was not an architect he was a P.E. teacher, and it is unlikely Fogelberg knew his profession anyway. Regarding the line, "She would have liked to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie," Jill will not talk about it, but she had divorced her husband by the time the song was released.

• 4 anonymous Jul 04, 2012

  I purchased one song that I have not been able to get out of my mind since the 80's. When I first heard Same Old Lang Syne, it just melted my heart. Here's this guy running into this woman he dated in high school and taking a walk down memory lane on their past life to their present day life. I actually cried a few times because you can tell that they truly loved each other at one point in their lives and them running into each other stirred up these memories. ***Such a beautiful, well thought out song!!!