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| "Amanda" | ||||
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&sq=&lang=en&file=File:Amanda_single_cover.jpg) The sleeve of the "Amanda" single. | ||||
| Single by Boston | ||||
| from the album Third Stage | ||||
| B-side | "My Destination" | |||
| Released | September 1986 | |||
| Recorded |
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| Studio | Hideaway and Blue Jay Recording Studios | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tom Scholz | |||
| Producer(s) | Tom Scholz | |||
| Boston singles chronology | ||||
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| Audio | ||||
| "Amanda" on YouTube | ||||
"Amanda" is a power ballad by American rock band Boston written by Tom Scholz. The song was released as the first single from the band's third album, Third Stage, in 1986, six years after it was recorded.
Although the song did not have a promotional music video, "Amanda" became the band's highest-charting single in the United States and Canada. In the United States, the single entered Billboard Hot 100 on September 27,[1] and topped the charts in November 1986 for two consecutive weeks (the band's only number one on the Hot 100),[2] and also reached number one for three consecutive weeks on the Mainstream Rock chart, in October of the same year,[3][4] while in Canada, the single topped RPM magazine's Top Singles and Adult Contemporary charts.[5][6]
It was the band's first officially released single since 1978 and their first released by MCA Records. The 12-string guitar parts are played by Scholz.
- ^ "Boston chart history". Billboard.
- ^ "Boston Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- ^ "Boston Chart History: Mainstream Rock Songs". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2010) [Originally published in 1983]. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (9th ed.). Billboard Books. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-8230-8554-5.
- ^ "Adult Contemporary" (PHP). RPM. 45 (10). November 29, 1986. ISSN 0315-5994. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ^ "100 Singles" (PHP). RPM. 45 (11). December 6, 1986. ISSN 0315-5994. Retrieved July 10, 2011.