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It was first recorded by Julie Andrews and playback singer Bill Lee (dubbing over the voice of actor Christopher Plummer) [2] for the film's soundtrack.In The Making of The Sound of Music by Max Wilk, Wilk stated that when Robert Wise and Saul Chaplin discussed replacing "An Ordinary Couple" with Rodgers, he automatically agreed to the idea and admitted he and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II had ...
"The Thing" is a novelty song by Charles Randolph Grean released in 1950. The song received heavy airplay, spending 14 weeks on the Billboard charts. The melody is derived from the English bawdy folk song "The Chandler's Wife", which itself derived its melody from the earlier English folk song " The Lincolnshire Poacher ".
"Good Thing" is a song by British band Fine Young Cannibals, released as the second single from their second and last album, The Raw & the Cooked (1989). The song was their second and final US number-one, topping the Billboard Hot 100 on 8 July 1989. [4] It also peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart. [5] The song made its first appearance in Tin ...
"The Best Things in Life Are Free" is a popular song written by the songwriting team of Buddy DeSylva and Lew Brown (lyrics) and Ray Henderson (music) for the 1927 musical Good News. It enjoyed a revival during the period from 1947 to 1950, when it was covered by many artists. On January 1, 2023, the composition entered the public domain in the ...
"Earth Song" is a song by the American singer Michael Jackson. It was written by Jackson and produced by Jackson, David Foster and Bill Bottrell . It was released by Epic Records on November 7, 1995, as the third single from Jackson's ninth studio album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995).
This was not the only occasion when the song appeared on a film's soundtrack. In 2002, a recording by Bono and composed by Elliot Goldenthal appeared on the soundtrack for The Good Thief. [18] The song was also covered in "Opening Night", a second-season episode of the American television series Smash, by Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty. [19]
The main thing that the song does is to paint – however elusively – the title character as another example of the societal outcasts who populate the album. [ 17 ] In common with a number of tracks on the album, the song's themes have been compared to the horror - fantasy works of H. P. Lovecraft . [ 18 ]
"So Called Life" is a single by the Canadian rock band Three Days Grace. It was released on November 29, 2021 as the lead single from the band's seventh studio album Explosions. [1] [2] The song was available digitally on music streaming services on December 1, 2021. [3] "So Called Life" was the most played song on rock radio in 2022. [4]