Fountain of Sorrow

"Fountain of Sorrow"
7-inch DJ promotional mono single label
Single by Jackson Browne
from the album Late for the Sky
B-side"The Late Show"
Released1975
Recorded1974
Length4:37 – 7" version; 6:42 – album version
LabelAsylum Records
Songwriter(s)Jackson Browne
Producer(s)Jackson Browne, Al Schmitt
Jackson Browne singles chronology
"Walking Slow"
(1974)
"Fountain of Sorrow"
(1975)
"Here Come Those Tears Again"
(1976)

"Fountain of Sorrow" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. Released as the second single from his 1974 album Late for the Sky, at 6:42, it was the longest song on the album, and the longest song Browne had yet released ("For Everyman" was approximately 6:20). Two minutes were removed from the single release of "Fountain of Sorrow", but the song still failed to chart on Billboard's Hot 100.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Jackson Browne Chart History. Billboard.
  2. ^ Allmusic.com. Jackson Browne Awards.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel. Billboard Hot 100 Charts – The Seventies. Wisconsin: Record Research, 1990.
  4. ^ Paris, Russ. JACKSON BROWNE COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY. Archived August 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine