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Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár 's 1909 play Liliom , transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline.
Billy Bigelow, a rough-talking, macho, handsome carousel barker, and Julie Jordan, a young, innocent mill worker, live in the small town of Boothbay Harbor, Maine.They fall in love, but are fired from their jobs; Billy because he paid too much attention to Julie and incurred the wrath of the jealous carousel owner Mrs. Mullin, and Julie because she had violated the curfew imposed by wealthy ...
List of other charted songs, with selected chart positions, showing year released, album name and certifications Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album US [5] US Main. [116] US Hard Rock [224] US Rock [225] FRA [25] GER [26] NZ Hot [191] UK [226] UK Rock [227] WW [228] "Runaway" 2000 — 37 — — — — — — 10 — Hybrid Theory
The band then released a mashup CD/DVD set, "Collision Course", with rapper Jay-Z on November 30, 2004. [10] It reached number 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release. [11] The extended set contained six songs recorded overnight. The song "Dirt off Your Shoulder/Lying from You", being a non-single, charted in the UK single charts. Linkin Park ...
"You'll Never Walk Alone" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, stabs himself with a knife whilst trying to run away after attempting a robbery with his mate ...
Published by Gap City Music and Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. [38] The song was originally released on Martinez' YouTube channel, but has since been taken down. One of Martinez' oldest known songs. "Strawberry Fields Forever" † 2014 John Lennon Paul McCartney: A song originally by The Beatles that Martinez covered.
The now jobless carousel barker Billy Bigelow, the antihero of the musical, sings this seven-and-a-half-minute song just after he has learned he is about to become a father. In it, he happily daydreams over what it would be like to be a father to a boy, but midway through the song, he realizes that it could turn out to be a girl. [1]
The song was introduced by John Raitt [1] as "Billy Bigelow" and Jan Clayton as "Julie" in the original Broadway production. [ 2 ] The song was performed in the 1956 film version Carousel by Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones .