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"Man Next Door" (also known as "Quiet Place" or "I've Got to Get Away") is a song composed and adapted by John Holt and first recorded by his group The Paragons in 1968. Holt's song is partially based on the original composition, "Quiet Place", recorded by Soul R & B artist Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters, released in 1963 on his Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms album).
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off is a 1961 musical with a book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. In 1966 Warner Bros. released a film adaptation of the play. In 1996, a film version was produced for TV, made for the A&E Network. According to Oscar Levant, the play's title was derived from a graffito. [1]
"Let's Get Away from It All" is a popular song with music by Matt Dennis and lyrics by Tom Adair, published in 1941. The song is most commonly associated with Frank Sinatra (who had a hit with it as a member of The Pied Pipers while he was a part of Tommy Dorsey's orchestra [1] and later for his Come Fly with Me album), but many others have recorded it and it is considered a standard of ...
The music and lyrics were written in 1925 by Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly.They self-published the sheet music and it became their first big success, selling 2 million copies and providing the financial basis of their publishing firm, Campbell, Connelly & Co. [1] Campbell and Connelly published the sheet music and recorded the song under the pseudonym "Irving King".
"Old School" is a song written by Russell Smith and Don Schlitz, and recorded by American country music artist John Conlee. It was released in October 1985 as the first single from his Greatest Hits 2 compilation album. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]
"Tomorrow" is a show tune from the musical Annie, with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin, published in 1977. The number was originally written as "Replay" (The Way We Live Now) for the 1970 short film Replay , with both music and lyrics by Strouse.
Berlin's deal with MGM for the package of songs that included "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" was $500,000 plus a percentage of box office receipts, which was an unusually advantageous contract for a songwriter and amounted to twenty percent of the film's total budget of $2.5 million. [11] The film won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Musical Score.
"Get Away" is a song performed and co-written [4] by American singer Bobby Brown, issued as the third single from his third album, Bobby. In 1993, the song peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, [5] as well as reaching #1 on the Billboard dance chart. [5] It was also Brown's last song to chart on the Top 40 in the United States.