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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 ...
On her debut album for Philips, Nina Simone in Concert (1964), for the first time she addressed racial inequality in the United States in the song "Mississippi Goddam". This was her response to the June 12, 1963, murder of Medgar Evers and the September 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four ...
"I Saved The World Today" was the first thing we did. I put together a beat and some ideas, Annie recorded some piano, we put down a guide vocal, Dave came up with a great Rickenbacker 12-string guitar part, and the song just started to emerge." [1] In an interview with Sain magazine, Lennox summarized the general premise of the song:
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
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 ...
"The Great Artist" (Chinese: 大藝術家) is a song by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai, featured on her twelfth studio album Muse. The song was composed by Robin Jessen, Anne Judith Wik, Nermin Harambasic, Ronny Svendsen, Charite Viken Reinas, Eirik Johansen, Alexander Puntervold, and Matthew Yen, and was produced by Michael Lin. [1] Released as a single on August 15, 2012, by Warner and Mars, [2 ...
Buy the World a Coke" was produced by Billy Davis and portrayed a positive message of hope and love, featuring a multicultural collection of teenagers on top of a hill appearing to sing the song. The popularity of the jingle led to its being re-recorded in two versions: one by The New Seekers and another by The Hillside Singers (as a full ...
With 100 million records sold, she was the all-time best-selling Latina singer and remains as one of the best-selling music artists of all-time. She has won three Grammy Awards from 12 nominations, four Latin Grammy Awards from 7 nominations, several BMI Awards and Billboard Latin Music Awards .