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It was a beautiful song But it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit You gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05 -- Billy Joel, The Entertainer, 1974 T
by kbutler 8y ago
It was a beautiful song
But it ran too long
If you're gonna have a hit
You gotta make it fit
So they cut it down to 3:05
-- Billy Joel, The Entertainer, 1974
To be fair, the article acknowledges songs were already getting shorter in the 90s, after getting longer with LPs and CDs.