Premise: "Leader of the Band" is a song written by Dan Fogelberg from his 1981 album "The Innocent Age". The song was written as a tribute to his father, Lawrence Fogelberg, a musician and the leader of a band, who was still alive at the time the song was released. Lawrence died in August 1982.
Hypothesis: Leader of the Band performed well on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart but did not perform so well as an international release until it was covered by a Spanish speaking artist thirty years later.