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Her solo version was an acoustic ballad with several lyrics changed, such as "you've gotta get with my friends" being changed to "you've gotta be my best friend". In 2016, American actress Eva Longoria performed a comedic dramatic reading of "Wannabe" in honour of the 20th anniversary of the album Spice . [ 196 ]
"Friends" (also titled "(You Got to Have) Friends") is a 1973 hit single by Bette Midler. It was written by Buzzy Linhart and Mark "Moogy" Klingman . In the United States, the song reached No. 9 on the Adult Contemporary chart [ 1 ] and reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Rosalind Russell in the film Gypsy (1962) - the number was included in the version shown to preview audiences but cut before the film went into wide release The song was sung by Danny Thomas and Marlo Thomas (accompanied off-camera by Milton Berle ) on a 1971 episode of That Girl (Season 5, Episode 15)
The Offspring themselves made a middle-eastern styled instrumental version of the song. It can be heard as a hidden track at the end of Smash as well as on the "Come Out and Play" single . The UCLA Bruin Marching Band is known to play a marching band version of "Come Out and Play".
The album was the number-one most downloaded album on iTunes and Amazon.com on its first day of release, and remained so a week later. [12] [13]The album debuted at number 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 with sales of 615,000 copies, the fourth best first-week sales of 2007 (trailing behind Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight, 50 Cent's Curtis, and Kanye West's Graduation). [7]
The song's spoken intro – "A preachment, dear friends, you are about to receive on John Barleycorn, nicotine and the temptations of Eve" – dates to the 1947 novelty recording "Cigareetes, Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women" by Red Ingle and His Natural Seven, [6] and is followed by a raspberry. [7]
"You Gotta Be" is an R&B/soul song by British singer and songwriter Des'ree, written by her with Ashley Ingram, who produced the song. It is the third track on the singer's second album, I Ain't Movin' (1994), and the opening track on the US release of that album.
Gypsy is a 1993 American made-for-television biographical musical comedy-drama film directed by Emile Ardolino.The teleplay by Arthur Laurents is an adaptation of his book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy, which was based on the 1957 autobiography Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee.