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"Our Town" is a 1983 song by American rock musician Marshall Crenshaw.The song was released on his 1983 album Field Day.Written as an ode to Crenshaw's hometown at the time, New York City, the song features a melody inspired by Babs Cooper's version of "Honest I Do," a record that Crenshaw had heard in his childhood.
At the 49th Grammy Awards, the song won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The same night, Newman's work for Cars won for Music in an Animated Feature Production at the 34th Annie Awards. [1] The song was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song.
[citation needed] The song was found to have been used as background music in more than 4.8 million videos. Cartoon further claimed that in all these and other media combined, the song had been heard about 7.2 billion times, or nearly the entire population of the world. [3]
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
The song's music video broke the records for the biggest music video premiere on YouTube, with 1.66 million concurrent viewers, and the most-watched music video within 24 hours, with 86.3 million views in its first day. [50] It became the fastest video to reach 100 million views, in just 32 hours, [51] and 200 million views, in seven days. [52]
McHale hired The Blasting Company, to score music and songs for the series, and gave all sorts of direction as there are different styles of music. [1] The band felt that, "the sound of the world that he created was completely integral to its creation, from the very beginning.
Tracks 1, 7, 9 & 17 are from the album Raintown; Tracks 2, 3, 5, 12, 15 are from the album When the World Knows Your Name; Track 8 is from the EP Four Bacharach & David Songs; Tracks 4, 10 & 14 are from the album Fellow Hoodlums; Tracks 11, 13 & 16 are from the album Whatever You Say, Say Nothing; Tracks 6, 18 & 19 are newly recorded for this ...
Our Town is a 1940 American drama romance film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George Gibbs. The cast also included Fay Bainter , Beulah Bondi , Thomas Mitchell , Guy Kibbee and Frank Craven .