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“The Longest Time” is a doo-wop single by Billy Joel. The song was released as a single in early 1984 as the fourth single off the album An Innocent Man. It reached number fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on Billboards Adult Contemporary chart . Overseas, the song went to number twenty-five on the UK Singles Chart. In the summer of 1983, when the album was released, oldies station WCBS-FM opted to play “The Longest Time” in regular rotation along with the first single “Tell Her About It”. At that time WCBS-FM mixed in some new songs with the oldies. The song got very favorable reviews and the public wanted “The Longest Time” to be the follow up single. But instead, that fall “Uptown Girl” was released as the second single. Late in November, “The... Read on...