Lonesome Loser

"Lonesome Loser"
British promotional 7" cover art
Single by Little River Band
from the album First Under the Wire
B-side"Another Runway"/"Shut Down Turn Off"
ReleasedJuly 1979
GenreSoft rock
Length3:30 (promo version) 3:45 (single version) 3:59 (album version)
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)David Briggs
Producer(s)John Boylan, Little River Band
Little River Band singles chronology
"Lady"
(1978)
"Lonesome Loser"
(1979)
"Cool Change"
(1979)

"Lonesome Loser" is a song written by David Briggs and performed by Australian soft rock music group Little River Band. Released in July 1979 as the lead single from their fifth studio album First Under the Wire, the song peaked at number 19 on the Australian Kent Music Report singles chart.[1] The song also peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's third top 10 hit and sixth overall top 40 hit in the United States.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference aus was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Little River Band - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 6 October 2018.