| "The Waiting" | ||||
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| Single by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | ||||
| from the album Hard Promises | ||||
| B-side | "Nightwatchman" | |||
| Released | April 20, 1981 | |||
| Recorded | Early 1981 | |||
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| Length | 4:01 | |||
| Label | Backstreet | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tom Petty | |||
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| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers singles chronology | ||||
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| "The Waiting" on YouTube | ||||
"The Waiting" is the lead single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' album Hard Promises, released in 1981. The song peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on the magazine's new Rock Tracks chart, where it remained for six consecutive weeks during the summer of 1981.[3]
The song was later reissued as the b-side to the single-only release of "Mary Jane's Last Dance" in 1993.
- ^ Pollock, Bruce (18 March 2014). Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era. Taylor & Francis. p. 1757. ISBN 978-1-135-46303-8.
- ^ Elbel, Jeff (June 30, 2017). "Not even the rain can steal Tom Petty's thunder in Wrigley Field". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 490.