"A Long December" . "RPM Top Singles number-one singles" . "3"^^ . "-0.290867"^^ . "CD single" . "The Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA" . "false"^^ . "Song recordings produced by Gil Norton" . "Geffen Records singles" . . "Songs written by Adam Duritz" . "A Long December" . "Adam Duritz" . "Geffen Records" . . "1996 songs" . . . "1996 singles" . "%22A Long December%22 is a song by American alternative rock band Counting Crows. It is the second single and thirteenth track from their second album, Recovering The Satellites (1996). The song peaked at number five on the U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks and #1 on the Canadian Singles Chart.Adam Duritz said about that song (from Storytellers): \u201CIn the middle of December of \u201895 my friend Jennifer got run over by a car, and just creamed; and I spent that whole month, while we were just beginning the record and most of Jan & Feb in the hospital, each like, morning and early afternoon then I\u2019d go to the studio, the house where we were recording, and we\u2019d play all afternoon and all night . It was a very weird time because ya know, there is a lot of stress ; not that it\u2019s a big deal being a second album, but any album. There just not that easy to make. It\u2019s a very stressful process, and especially when you\u2019re first starting out. And like I said, I spent a lot of time in the hospital which is pretty weird. But one day I just left the studio about 2 in the morning, and I went to my friend Samantha and Tracy\u2019s house which is Hillside Manor; and uh.. That\u2019s what we call it anyway, it\u2019s just a little house and I sat there talking with them, I woke \u2018em up, got \u2018em out of bed and made \u2018em talk to me for a couple hours, then I went home to my house. \u201CAnd I wrote this song between about 4 and 6 and then went to the hospital the next day, and came to the house and I played it for the guys before dinner and \u2026 and taught it to them after dinner. And we played it about 6 or 7 times ..and .. do you remember which take number it was? Take number 6. We just stopped, that was it. We recorded the song, it was done. We all went in to the kitchen and had a cold beer, I grabbed Brad our engineer and ran back out about 5min later, had him play the tape three times, just recorded all the harmonies \u2026and uh..we\u2019ve never touched it since, that was it. It\u2019s a completely live song except for the harmonies. \u201CIt\u2019s a song about looking back on your life and seeing changes happening, and for once for me, looking forward and thinking\u2026 ya know\u2026things are gonna change for the better \u2018maybe this year will be better than the last\u2019 and uh\u2026 and so, like a lot of songs on the end of album it\u2019s not about everything turning out great, but it at least is about hope\u2026and the possibilities \u2026\u201DThe video for the song featured Courteney Cox, whom frontman Adam Duritz had dated." . "Counting Crows songs" . "ae82e663-a2f1-44c5-b5ed-e28116408e3a" . . . "Gil Norton" . "false"^^ . "-0.305131"^^ . "false"^^ . "english" . "5714dec625ac0d8aee3ab68a" . "0"^^ .