Show Me the Way
Peter Frampton
1976
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
Release year not established
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A first-release date was not established in the available metadata.
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About Peter Frampton
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
Peter Frampton developed his guitar career in 1960s Britain through the Herd and Humble Pie, alongside session work for other performers. His solo music combines blues-based guitar playing with melodic songwriting. Frampton Comes Alive! brought that approach to a broad audience in 1976 through concert recordings including Show Me the Way and Baby I Love Your Way. A talk-box guitar effect became closely associated with his performances.
Artist background sources
Peter Frampton - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame biography
Early groups and session career, blues/melodic style, 1976 live album, representative recordings and talk-box effect. Duplicated/mislabeled song widgets and the Fingerprints award-year labeling are not treated as catalog evidence. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
Show Me the Way by Peter Frampton appears at number 50 in the reviewed U.S. year-end table for 1976. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
Billboard year-end 1976 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
Other appearances and versions
live 1976
Version separation is an editorial catalog safeguard. Exact pressing/recording identifiers remain unverified.
An annual chart year and an original release date are different. Similar titles may be covers or different masters; no audio fingerprint has been performed.
Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Billboard year-end 1976 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
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