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"To Sir with Love" is the theme from James Clavell's 1967 film To Sir, with Love. The song was performed by British singer and actress Lulu (who also starred in the film), and written by Don Black and Mark London (husband of Lulu's longtime manager Marion Massey). Mickie Most produced the record, with Mike Leander arranging and conducting.
"To Sir with Love" became the best-selling single of 1967 in the United States. It sold well in excess of one million copies and was awarded a gold disc, [15] being ranked by Billboard magazine as the number 1 song of the year. In the UK, "To Sir With Love" was released on the B-side of "Let's Pretend", a number 11 hit. [11]
The film's title song "To Sir with Love", sung by Lulu, peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks in the autumn of 1967 and ultimately was the best-selling single in the US that year; meanwhile, Poitier, playing a charismatic schoolteacher to troubled youth, was the first black actor to win a Golden Globe Award.
The legendary Scottish singer Lulu has had a career that’s spanned six decades and is still, as she says, “smashing it onstage.” But she is most associated with a song and a film that she ...
The Best of Lulu: Released: 15 November 1994; Label: Rhino; Formats: CD — — I'm Back for More: The Very Best of Her Nineties Recordings: Released: 7 December 1999; Label: Dome; Formats: CD — — The Greatest Hits: Released: 10 November 2003; Label: Mercury; Formats: CD, CD+DVD; 35 — BPI: Silver [5] To Sir With Love! The Complete Mickie ...
Judith Amanda Geeson (born 10 September 1948 [1]) is an English film, stage, and television actress.She began her career primarily working on British television series, with a leading role on The Newcomers from 1965 to 1967, before making her major film debut in To Sir, with Love (1967).
Mark London was born in Montreal, Quebec, and initially worked as a comedian following a move to London.He first achieved prominence in 1967 as the composer of the melody to "To Sir With Love", the title song from James Clavell's movie of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson and Lulu. [1]
To Sir, with Love: Mr. Mark Thackeray [3] 1967 In the Heat of the Night: Detective Virgil Tibbs [4] 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Dr. John Wade Prentice [5] 1968 For Love of Ivy: Jack Parks 1969 The Lost Man: Jason Higgs 1970 They Call Me Mister Tibbs! Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs 1971 Brother John: John Kane 1971 The Organization: Lieutenant ...