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According to the singer, Dryden Mitchell, the band would play a few riffs of the song while warming up before gigs and audience members would request the entire song. [84] The cover became a number-one hit on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and was also a number-one hit in Australia for eight weeks. In Europe, it reached number three ...
Martin Charnin first approached Thomas Meehan to write the book of a musical about Little Orphan Annie, in 1972. Meehan researched, by rereading prints of the comic strip, but he was unable to find any satisfactory material for a musical, other than the characters of Annie, Oliver Warbucks, and Sandy, so, he decided to write his own story.
The song is sampled in the Lil' Romeo track "We Can Make It Right" from his second album Game Time. Play covered the song in 2004 for their third studio album Don't Stop the Music which was later featured on the 20th Anniversary DVD release of Annie. The song is interpolated in the chorus of Lukas Graham's 2014 single "Mama Said". [7]
"Annie" isn't just for the kids. This holiday season is filled with family movies, but the new remake of "Annie," which hits theaters December 19, has a decidedly grown up feel.
The production was the fourth on-screen version of the musical following the 1982 theatrical film starring Carol Burnett and Albert Finney (in which the songs "Sign" and "We Got Annie" were taken from), the 1999 television film starring Kathy Bates and Victor Garber, and the 2014 theatrical film starring Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx.
The EGOT winner is currently back on stage in the musical, playing at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in N.Y.C. through Jan. 5, 2025
Sia covered the song for the soundtrack for the 2014 film. [2] [3] The single charted in Australia, Belgium, UK and in Poland where it became an airplay hit—the song peaked at number 3 on the Polish Airplay Top 20 Chart and at number 2 on the Polish TV Airplay Chart.
Whoopi Goldberg is ready to hit the stage again!. The actress and television personality, 69, is making her anticipated return to theater as the infamous Miss Hannigan in the New York City run of ...