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"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), [ 1 ] hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. [ 2 ]
Their version of "Unchained Melody" stayed at number 1 for 7 weeks on the UK Chart, [1] selling more than 1.8 million copies and becoming the best-selling single of 1995. They had two further number-one singles, produced by Mike Stock and Matt Aitken – " I Believe " (1995) and " What Becomes of the Brokenhearted " (1996) [ 2 ] – and two ...
Hy Zaret (born Hyman Harry Zaritsky; August 21, 1907 – July 2, 2007) was an American Tin Pan Alley [1] lyricist and composer who wrote the lyrics of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most-recorded songs of the 20th century. [2]
Medley said that he produced "Unchained Melody"; the song was originally intended only as a track on the album Just Once in My Life, and Spector had asked him to produce the albums so Spector could spend time and money on producing singles. [30] [31] Later copies of the original 45 release credited Spector as producer when it became a hit. [32]
Their cover of "Unchained Melody" was released as a double A-side single with "White Cliffs of Dover".It immediately reached No. 1 and stayed there for seven weeks, and became the best-selling song of 1995.
Footage of Presley's 1977 "Unchained Melody" performance has been viewed millions of times via YouTube, for example. "Somebody is going to know exactly how he placed his foot, how he placed his ...
But Vito & the Salutations became best known for a surprise million-selling hit a year later, in the summer of 1963: they took "Unchained Melody," a 1955 hit ballad by Al Hibbler that they heard on the car radio, as they drove to perform at a concert, [3] and transformed it into an up-tempo, doo-wop song. "Unchained Melody" [2] reached number ...
He wrote 14 Oscar-nominated scores for films like A Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and also scored one Best Original Song nom for "Unchained Melody" from ...