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"Mona Lisa" is a popular song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949), in which it was performed by Sergio de Karlo and a recurrent accordion motif. The title and lyrics refer to the renaissance portrait Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
For that song, the duo earned their first major award, the Academy Award for Best Song. [14] They finished off the decade with 1949's "Mona Lisa", written for the movie Captain Carey, U.S.A.. It was a chart hit for seven popular and two country artists in 1950, sold a million for Nat King Cole, and won the pair another Best Song Oscar. [15] [16]
The eulogy was delivered by Jack Benny, who said that "Nat Cole was a man who gave so much and still had so much to give. He gave it in song, in friendship to his fellow man, devotion to his family. He was a star, a tremendous success as an entertainer, an institution.
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The Mona Lisa [a] is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, [4] [5] it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most parodied work of art in the world."
The song's title is an allusion to Mona Lisa, the famous Renaissance-era oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci. In a 2011 interview, Urie regarded the name and theme of the song as neither male nor female. “That whole thing with Mona Lisa was the idea that there is this character.
They finished off the decade with 1949's "Mona Lisa", which was a chart hit for seven popular and two country artists in 1950, sold a million for Nat King Cole, and won the pair another Best Song Oscar. [8] [9] Their third Oscar came in 1956 for the song "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)", featured in the movie The Man Who Knew Too Much.
So it was all ’70s and ’80s — no ’90s music. But thank God for Kathy. If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t know Bob Dylan , I wouldn’t know Neil Young , I wouldn’t know Led Zeppelin .