The Logical Song, ‘Sumpertramp’ – Butch’s Way Back Wednesday

As a music fan there is always something new and great, but there really is something special about the songs you grew up listening to. For me, that was 70′s and 80′s classic rock. If I am in a shi**y mood, I throw in a little Zeppelin or Rush and take a trip back to rolling in my mom’s T-Bird. Now every Wednesday you get to take that trip with me. It’s Way Back Wednesday with Butch, and today’s feature celebrates a song that mad it big 35 years to the month back in 1979...Supertramp's, “The Logical Song."

"The Logical Song" was one of many hit singles on Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America, sung by band member Roger Hodgson. The song was a hit on its original release, reaching number 7 in the United Kingdom and number 6 in the United States. It stayed for three months on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring/summer of 1979.

At a concert appearance, Roger Hodgson said of this song: "I was sent to boarding school for ten years and I definitely emerged from that experience with a lot of questions, like What the hell happened to me? What is life about? And why a lot of the things I had been told didn't make any sense. 'Logical Song' was really a light-hearted way of saying something pretty deep. Which is they told me how to conform, to be presentable, to be acceptable and everything but they didn't tell me who I am or why I m here. So, it s a very profound message and I think it really resonated with a lot of people when it came out."

"The Logical Song" went on to remain Supertramp's biggest chart hit in both the United States and their native United Kingdom and it is still among their most widely recognized radio hits.

Take a trip back 35 years with us to 1979 here...