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In 2011, "Wishing on a Star" was covered by Nigerian-British singer Seal. It was released as the first UK single taken from his album Soul 2 on November 20, 2011. This interpretation of "Wishing on a Star" was produced by previous collaborator, Trevor Horn. Seal's version of the song premiered on Ken Bruce's BBC Radio 2 show on October 13, 2011 ...
AllMusic. [1] Annie Haslam is the third solo album by Renaissance vocalist Annie Haslam, released in 1989. The album consisted mostly of original material and included covers of Mike Oldfield 's "Moonlight Shadow", which had been a UK number 4 hit in 1983, and Rose Royce 's 1978 UK number 3 hit "Wishing on a Star".
Waiting for a Star to Fall. " Waiting for a Star to Fall " is a song by American pop music duo Boy Meets Girl in 1988, written by the duo's members, Shannon Rubicam and George Merrill. They wrote the song after witnessing a falling star at a Whitney Houston concert and originally offered the song to Houston, but Arista Records CEO Clive Davis ...
"Swinging on a Star" is an American pop standard with music composed by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. [1] It was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1944 film Going My Way , winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song that year, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and has been recorded by numerous artists since then.
Instead of “Wishing on a Star,” Slovak filmmaker Péter Kerekes makes his dreams come true, returning to Lido – and Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section – with his latest film. In ...
Motown, Whitfield. Autry DeWalt Mixon Jr. (June 14, 1931 – November 23, 1995), known professionally as Junior Walker, was an American multi-instrumentalist (primarily saxophonist) and vocalist who recorded for Motown during the 1960s. He also performed as a session and live-performing saxophonist with the band Foreigner during the 1980s.
Boy Meets Girl is the debut album by American pop singer-songwriters George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, also known as Boy Meets Girl. It was released on A&M Records in 1985, and was their only disc for the label. The album included the band's first top 40 hit on the Billboard pop chart, when "Oh Girl" peaked at No. 39.
In Japan, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark, the song has become a Christmas song, often referring to the Star of Bethlehem. The Swedish version is called "Ser du stjärnan i det blå", (lit. ' Do you see the star in the blue '), and the Danish title is "Når du ser et stjerneskud" (lit. ' When you see a shooting star ').