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"Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It has been described as "the single biggest popular hit to come out of any Rodgers and Hammerstein show." [1] Andrew Lloyd Webber describes it as the "greatest song ever written for a musical". [2]
Some Enchanted Evening is the second live album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on September 13, 1978. The album was certified for a million units sold in the United States. [1] The album's seven tracks were recorded at various locations in the United States and England.
The Original Soundtrack to the film South Pacific was released by RCA Victor in 1958. The film was based on the 1949 musical South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein.The composers had much say in this recording, with many of the songs performed by accomplished singers rather than the actors in the film. [1]
Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein (right) watching auditions at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in 1948. Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals.
The first single, "Some Enchanted Evening", reached #40 on the Urban Adult Contemporary charts. The album was also the final Temptations album for Ali-Ollie Woodson , who would be released from the group by Otis Williams in 1996, after having suffered several bouts of throat cancer.
The Castells version of "Some Enchanted Evening" from the musical South Pacific was used in Episode 1 of the Fallout TV series on Amazon Prime, during a slow-motion battle scene within Vault 33 between the Vault Dwellers and Raiders who had infiltrated the Vault whilst dressed as members of Vault 32.
The song's lyrics are selected verses from a poem by Sandy Pearlman, the band's producer and mastermind behind their image, called "The Soft Doctrines of Imaginos".In the poem, which was later partially released under the BÖC moniker in the album Imaginos, aliens known as Les Invisibles guide an altered human named Imaginos, also called Desdinova, through history, playing key roles that ...
Some Enchanted Evening is the tenth solo studio album by Art Garfunkel, released in 2007. It is Garfunkel's interpretation of many standards of the Great American Songbook . It was produced by long-time friend and producer Richard Perry .