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The title of "Lonely Ol' Night" was inspired by a scene in the 1963 film Hud starring Paul Newman, based on the 1961 novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry.John Cougar Mellencamp had seen the film many times as a young man, and its portrayal of Newman's character Hud Bannon's strained relationship with his father Homer Bannon (Melvyn Douglas) affected Mellencamp deeply, inspiring many of ...
According to the John Mellencamp biography Born in a Small Town, Mellencamp was initially reluctant to include "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." on Scarecrow, feeling the song was too light-hearted to include alongside the otherwise grim songs such as "Rain on the Scarecrow" and "Face of the Nation".
Scarecrow is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Cougar Mellencamp. Released on July 31, 1985, it peaked at number two on the US Billboard 200 . The album contained three top-ten hits: " R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. ", which peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 ; " Lonely Ol' Night ", which peaked at number six; and ...
The movie's introduction, set to the song "This Is Halloween," traverses through a graveyard with ghostly shadows reflected on the tombstones.The first ghost appears to be pretty classically ...
A Christmas Melody, also known under its working title of Mistletoe & Melody, is a 2015 American Christmas television film directed by Mariah Carey, who co-stars with Lacey Chabert. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was filmed in Ohio during October 2015, and premiered on the Hallmark Channel on December 19, 2015.
Danny Glover’s Santa Claus is getting too old for this s… tuff. Lethal Weapon vet Glover plays a Santa whose North Pole is about to be infiltrated by some not-entirely-nice kids in the above ...
He first appeared in You Can't Take It with You in 1938. Director Frank Capra would then cast the bird in every subsequent movie he made. Among his roles were Uncle Billy's pet, seen in the Building & Loan in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), [3] and the crow that landed on the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Posted to their Youtube and social media channels, the holiday ad has racked up more than 20 million views, and rivals the popularity of the yearly John Lewis Christmas ad.