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Liam Kelly and Nick Kozakis directed the music video, which was released on 24 June 2019, produced by Visible Studios. [12] It follows the character "Mr. Tones" (played by Tones and I), an elderly man who sneaks out of a care home with his friends so they can go to a golf course and have a dance party with other senior citizens.
World War II flying ace Major (later Brigadier General) Thomas L. Hayes named his P-51 Frenesi after the song. [8] He said it was a tribute to his wife Louise, for the song they listened to; he believed the song's name translated as "Love Me Tenderly". The Artie Shaw recording was used in the soundtrack of the 1980 film Raging Bull. [9]
In 2019–20, "Dance Monkey" completed 24 weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart, beating Bing Crosby's all-time Australian record for his version of "White Christmas", which spent an equivalent of 22 weeks at the top in 1943. "Dance Monkey" was certified 19× platinum by ARIA for shipments of over 1,330,000 units by June 2023.
The Battle of the Caribbean refers to a naval campaign waged during World War II that was part of the Battle of the Atlantic, from 1941 to 1945. [3] German U-boats and Italian submarines attempted to disrupt the Allied supply of oil and other material. They sank shipping in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and attacked coastal targets ...
As Billboard did starting in the 1940s, the three totals for each song are combined, with that number determining the final year-end rank. For example, 1944's " A Hot Time in the Town of Berlin " by Bing and the Andrews Sisters finished at no. 19, despite six weeks at no. 1 on the 'Most-Played Juke Box Records'(JB) chart.
In China, the 1940s was the golden era of Mandarin pop songs which were collectively termed 'Shidaiqu', literally "songs of the era". Shanghai Pathe Records, then belonging to EMI, emerged to be the leading record company in China and featured a blend of Chinese melodies and western orchestrations as well as Big Band Jazz elements in ...
Known as the "hokey cokey" or the "hokey kokey", the song and accompanying dance peaked in popularity as a music hall song and novelty dance in the mid-1940s in Britain. There is a claim of authorship by the British/Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy , responsible for the lyrics to popular songs such as the wartime " We're Going to Hang out the ...
Music portal; Songs written or first produced in the decade 1940s, ... 1945 songs (92 P) 1946 songs (140 P) ... 1940s song stubs (2 C, 135 P) Pages in category "1940s ...