It was 36 years ago today — December 13th, 1986 — that Bruce Hornsby & The Range scored their sole Number One hit to date — the poignant coming-of-age track and one-week chart-topper, “The Way It Is.”
Hornsby — a Williamsburg, Virginia native — went on to score six more Top 40 hits over the next few years — including the 1987's “Mandolin Rain” (#4) and “Every Little Kiss” (#14), 1988's “The Valley Road” (#5) and “Look Out Any Window” (#35), along with 1990's “Across The River.”
In 1989, Don Henley's Bruce Hornsby co-written “The End Of The Innocence” peaked at Number Eight on the Billboard Hot 100.