It’s a classic rock radio staple! The single/radio version is cut down to 3:26, from the album’s sprawling 5:26 version.

It peaked at #11 on the Billboard charts, which is great, but it’s rather shocking that it wasn’t a Top 10 hit, considering how well it’s held up in the decades since. “Carry On Wayward Son” was released as a single in 1976, from the album ‘Leftoverture’. The Zoom conference ended with a campfire singalong with fans. “You guys have been a soundtrack to my life.” While many ‘Supernatural’ fans are too young to have ever heard “Carry On Wayward Son” before the show, Ackles praised the band: Platt thanked the cast for “restoring our faith in the youth of America.” I said, ‘How are you a fan of this band? You’re too young to really, you know…’ They said, ‘No, We know about you from Supernatural… they play your song on there.” “It was really strange, a few years ago all these young girls started showing up at Kansas shows, and we didn’t know what was going on. “Do you find that there are Supernatural fans that show up at Kansas shows?”

“‘Carry On My Wayward Son’ has become the anthem of our show, and it’s like, indelibly connected with ‘Supernatural’.”

The song was used to score the “previously on…” montage starting with Season 1 and has been used every season since, and was the closing credits theme for ‘Supernatural: The Anime Series’.

Misha Collins (Castiel) held a Zoom meeting with his costars Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) and Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester) and the band Kansas– Ronnie Platt, Tom Brislin, David Ragsdale, Richard Williams, and Billy Greer– the group behind the classic rock anthem “Carry On Wayward Son,” the unofficial theme song to ‘Supernatural’.

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