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"Shangri-La" is a song written by Ray Davies of the Kinks. The song appeared on the 1969 concept album, Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). The song's inspiration can be traced back to when the band visited the Davies brothers' sister, Rose, and her family in Australia, the "designed community" that the family lived in serving as the initial lyrical inspiration.
The term comes from "Shangri-La" as the hidden valley of delight in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon. The term "Shangri-La," especially in the 1930s and 1940s, was slang for heaven or paradise, [ 1 ] and the song is about the joy of being in love.
Shangri-La is a musical with a book and lyrics by James Hilton, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee and music by Harry Warren. [1]Based on Hilton's classic 1933 novel Lost Horizon, it focuses on Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, who stumbles across a utopian lamasery high in the Himalayas in Tibet after surviving a plane crash in the mountainous terrain.
"Shambala" is a song written by Daniel Moore and made famous by two near-simultaneous releases in 1973: the better-known but slightly later recording by Three Dog Night, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and a version by B. W. Stevenson. Its title derives from a mythical place-name also spelled Shamballa or Shambhala.
In 1965, the Detergents released a parody song, "I Can Never Eat Home Anymore", that was not as successful as their previous spoof on the Shangri-Las, "Leader of the Laundromat". [6] [7] David Wrench featured Henry Priestman released a version of the song on his 1998 EP David Wrench Sings the Songs of The Shangri-La's. [8]
LP Epic LN-3445: The Four Coins In Shangri-La; A: Shangri-La * Memories Of You * Heartache Street (And Teardrop Ave.) * Lovers’ Island * Manhattan Serenade * The Curly-Headed Kid In The Third Row B: You're Breaking My Heart * This Life * Ting-A-Ling Telephone * New World * I Will Never Be The Same * Maybe 1958. EP Epic ZTEP 60057/60058
"Shangri-La" (シャングリラ) is a song by Japanese rock band Chatmonchy. It was released on November 15, 2006 as the lead single of their second studio album Seimeiryoku. It was used as the ending for the anime Hataraki Man. [1] The song charted at 6th on the Oricon chart, the highest singles chart position the band has achieved to date. [2]
"Shangri-La" by The Kinks, from the album Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969) "Shangri-La" by Druid, from the album Toward the Sun (1975) "Shangri-La" by the Electric Light Orchestra, from their album A New World Record (1976); the song refers to "My Shangri-La" as a state of bliss