ahh...love it
this charted again, didn't it?
indeed the LP came out in late '70; the single didn't hit the first time around. 2nd time (summer of '72) was the charm -- it made the top ten.
the outro was on one of those gangster movies, right? Did it chart again? Reminds me of Fleetwood Mac's 'Albatross' that was a UK # 1 three different times.
Wow, I almost mentioned that -- the outro was used in GoodFellas. Scorsese has used music as well as any director I can think of. But I don't think it charted again as a result of that film.
The first time was the truncated three-minute single in 1970, which hit the Hot 100 but missed the Top 40 (maybe the 70s?). Re-released in '72 as the seven-minute opus, peaking at #10. AFAIK, did not chart again until Crapton acoustified it for Unplugged in the early 90s.