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Saville was born Philip Saffer on 28 October 1927 at Marylebone, London (in later life he gave his birth year as 1930, a date repeated in all his obituaries), [5] son of Louis Saffer (who later assumed the anglicized form of the family name, "Saville", chosen by his father, Joseph Saffer, a master tailor), a travelling salesman for a clothing company, and Sadie Kathleen (known as "Kay"), née ...
Taja Sevelle (born Nancy Richardson January 7, 1962) [1] is an American singer, best known for her 1987 single, "Love Is Contagious", [2] and for the non-profit organization Urban Farming, which she founded in 2005.
By the end of 2012, the song became the best-selling song of that year with 11.8 million copies sold, [53] ranking among the best-selling digital singles ever. As of April 2012, it is the most downloaded song ever in Belgium, [ 54 ] as well as being the third best-selling digital single in Germany with sales between 500,000 and 600,000 copies ...
Season 1, Episode 12, "Double Date"; the song Rory and Lane try to listen to while Lorelai is trying to study and keeps making them turn it down and then up. "Smile" – Grant-Lee Phillips (3:53) Season 3, Episode 3, "Application Anxiety"; from the end as Luke and Taylor are having a fight and Rory and Lorelai are strolling around Stars Hollow ...
"Blue Monday" has been labelled a "synth-pop classic" [21] [22] and described as cementing the group's movement from post-punk to alternative dance. [5]It has been noted as an example of the hi-NRG style of club music, [23] and the 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide called it "the ultimate in flawlessly programmed, LSD-driven, push-button dance-pop".
"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" climbed to #1 in the UK, #3 in Canada and #7 in the US in 1971 and 1972. The song became a gold record in the US and has also sold over a million copies in the UK. [25] The Coca-Cola Company waived royalties to the song and instead donated $80,000 in payments to UNICEF. [3]
1 was a commercial success and topped charts worldwide. It has sold over 31 million copies. [1] Since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking US album sales in January 1991, [2] 1 is the fourth-best-selling album in the US, the best-selling album of the 2000s decade in the US, [3] as well as the best-selling album of the decade worldwide.
"The Good Life" was the theme song of the 2000 British gangster film, Gangster No. 1. The Tony Bennett version also features in the 1988 British feature film Buster, about the criminals responsible for the 1963 Great Train Robbery in Buckinghamshire. The song was also employed as a 2007 jingle for a line of pet foods of the same name.