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I was a around to remember when Now That's What I call Music! was released in 1998. Since that time, a "Vol. 1" tag has been stuck on the end, because there have been fifty-two subsequent releases in the series since that time. If you count volumes of the collection from other countries and its multiple spin-off series, there are hundreds of Now albums out there in the world, dating all the way back to the original UK series that began in 1983. I didn't buy that first collection, but I did borrow it from a friend, and I quickly fell in love with "The Way," which appeared as the third track in the collection.
The song was conceived by the band's leading man, Tony Scalzo. He had read several reports of an elderly couple in Texas that took off took a local festival one day and were discovered weeks later in the bottom of a ravine a few hundred miles from anything close to the route they should've been taking. It's not that strange after you find out that between the two elderly adventurers there was a case of Alzheimer and recent brain surgery. Of course, the song is a romanticized version of the events, with a much more fulfilling ending.
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