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Huey is skeptical at first, thinking that Uberwitz will get fired for making this offer, but accepts on the condition that Uberwitz sign an agreement giving him full creative control. He begins writing a new play that adheres to his unique vision, sets up an office to manage the organizational work, and hires Quincy Jones as music director.
The related slang term Jesus pin refers to the lock pin used to secure the retaining nut. More generally, Jesus nut (or Jesus pin) is used to refer to any component that is a single point of failure and whose breakdown would result in catastrophic consequences, the suggestion being that in such case the only thing left to do would be to pray to ...
The ninth verse says that Jesus would have been killed by modern capitalist society just as he was in his own time. [1] The song was partially sung and played on the piano by the Guthrie character in the 1976 biographical film Bound For Glory , set to the same tune as the folk ballad " Jesse James ".
"Jacob's Ladder" is a 1986 song written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby and recorded by Huey Lewis and the News. The song spent one week at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1987, [1] becoming the band's third and final number-one hit.
It forms the title of a song about the breaking of a drought in the musical Summer Rain (set in 1945 in outback New South Wales), with the phrase featured in the song's lyric. [ 10 ] In 2002, Send it down Huey was used for a series of drought relief concerts and music releases, including a CD that sold over 4000 copies.
The song was written by Alex Call, a former bandmate of Lewis and Sean Hopper from the band, Clover. [1] Call had previously co-written the hit song "867-5309/Jenny" for Tommy Tutone. Huey Lewis gave the song a reggae flavor. [2] The song is an optimistic commentary on a human being's hopes and dreams, [3] as well as our private thoughts. [2]
"The Power of Love" is a 1985 single by Huey Lewis and the News, written for the soundtrack of the 1985 blockbuster film Back to the Future. The song became the band's first number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [4] [5] and their second number-one hit on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart.
Mixed Nuts is a 1994 American Christmas black comedy film directed by Nora Ephron, [3] based on the 1982 French comedy film Le Père Noël est une ordure (Santa Claus is a Stinker). [4]