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In a 2012 interview with YouKnowIGotSoul.com, Dwele recalled his original ideas for the song and the process of composing it: . I was in L.A. working with G-One and I remember I had a portable CD player and I had burnt a song in the studio and had it in my portable CD player in my headphones on the balcony of my hotel room under palm trees.
Although Barbra Streisand had an easy-listening hit in 1972 with "Sing", Karen and Richard Carpenter heard the song for the first time as guests on the ABC television special Robert Young with the Young in 1973. They loved the song and felt that it could be a hit. [2] It appeared as the debut single on the group's 1973 album Now & Then. [1]
Driving the song is a pounding piano rhythm of two bass notes alternating on every second beat. [2] The theme of the song is searching for love: "Well, I'm searching, Yeah I'm gonna find her". The refrain is simple variations of this phrase, "Gonna find her, yeah ah, gonna find her". [1]
The title of the number as given on the Goodman recordings acknowledges the additional tune – "Sing, Sing, Sing (introducing Christopher Columbus)". Music critics Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff quote Goodman as saying, "'Sing, Sing, Sing' (which we started doing back at the Palomar on our second trip there in 1936) was still a big thing, and no ...
The song became a popular dance track, particularly so in gay clubs. After hitting the U.S. Dance charts, where it peaked at number eight, [2] it was re-issued in the UK in 1984 and managed to reach number six in the UK Singles Chart, becoming one of her most successful singles to date. [3] The song was later included on her album Heart First.
I Sing the Songs: 1976: Bruce Johnston: I Think of You: 1941, 1957: Jack Elliott, Don Marcotte I Thought About You: 1955, 1956: Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Van Heusen: I Tried: 1941: Clark Dennis, Paul Hand, Carl Nutter I Wanna Be Around: 1964: Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt I Want to Thank Your Folks: 1946: Bennie Benjamin, George David Weiss: I ...
The song has sold 327,000 copies as of December 2012, becoming the 49th best-selling single of the year [17] and has spent 30 weeks in the UK Singles Chart. [18] As of November 2020, "Sing" has moved a total of 427,000 units in the United Kingdom. [19] "Sing" also entered the Netherlands Top 100 at 69 and peaked at 88 in Belgium.
Sing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 2016 animated musical film Sing.The soundtrack includes classic songs performed by the film's main cast as well as the song "Faith", [2] which was written specifically for the movie and performed by Stevie Wonder and Ariana Grande. [3]