It Was the Best of Times selections from Supertramp's career to that point, still eschewing their first two LPs, without really adding anything to the portrait painted by the slimmer edition." All songs written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, except where noted. It Was the Best of Times It Was the Best of Times is the third live album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in April 1999. The album title makes use of the opening line from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. "It Was the Best of Times" was recorded in September 1997 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England,
The Best of Times (song) farewell track, "A.D. 1958". The song was featured in the 1999 movie "Big Daddy", in which Adam Sandler's character, as well as Sandler himself, is a Styx fan. Despite the song's enormous success along with Show Me The Way, Don't Let it End and Babe, it has not been performed live by the band since singer Dennis DeYoung was dismissed in 1999. DeYoung, however, still performs the song regularly on his solo tours. The Best of Times (song) "The Best of Times" is the first single release from Styx's 1981 triple-platinum album "Paradise Theatre". It reached #1 in Canada on