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The stage version also features different lyrics as it was felt that a kitten would not sing about the same hard times as Grizabella. [12] The first commercial release of "Memory" was an instrumental single performed by guitarist Gary Moore. It was released in early 1981 by MCA Records to promote Cats while the musical was still in development ...
Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice" by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.
The main song that Grizabella sings is "Memory", the best-known song from Cats and "by some estimations the most successful song ever from a musical." [11] It has been recorded around 600 times (as of 2006) by artists including Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis, [12] Michael Crawford and Kikki Danielsson. [13]
Lyrics by Don Black; Cats (1981) Lyrics based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot; Additional lyrics after Eliot by Richard Stilgoe and Trevor Nunn; Song and Dance (1982) Lyrics by Don Black (revised by Richard Maltby Jr. for Broadway) Combination of Variations (1978) and Tell Me on a Sunday (1979) Starlight Express (1984)
“I have cats. I’m obsessed with them. I love my cats so much that when a role came up in a movie called Cats, I just thought, like, I gotta do this,” she told TIME in 2019. “[Cats are ...
Ken Page, a theater icon who brought Old Deuteronomy to life in the Broadway debut of “Cats” and delighted children everywhere by voicing Oogie Boogie from “The Nightmare Before Christmas ...
"Memory" (Cats song), a song from the 1981 musical Cats ... "The Way We Were" (song), which includes the lyrics "Memories, light the corners of my mind"
A cast recording by the original Broadway cast of the musical Cats was released on January 26, 1983, by Geffen Records. It was later reissued by Polydor in 1993, and remastered in 2005. The recording won Best Cast Show Album at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards.