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American Beauty Rose" is a 1950 song written by Hal David, Redd Evans and Arthur Altman, [1] which was a minor hit for Eddy Howard and for Frank Sinatra in 1950. [2] [3] It was also popularized by Sinatra's second version as a charting single in 1961. [4] The song was included on his Come Swing with Me! LP, as the B-side to "Sentimental Journey ...
In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 an aged Italian hurls an American Beauty rose at Major de Coverly, wounding him in the eye. The flower is a recurring motif in the Oscar-winning 1999 film American Beauty. It was also featured on the cover of the Grateful Dead album American Beauty. 'American Beauty' is the official flower of the District of ...
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American Beauty was released just over four months after Workingman's Dead. The title of the album has a double meaning, referring both to the musical focus on Americana and to the rose that is depicted on the front cover. Around the rose, the album title is scripted as a text ambigram that can also be read "American Reality". [15]
American Beauty/American Psycho Tour (concert tour), a 2015 concert tour by Fall Out Boy "American Beauty/American Psycho" (song), a 2014 song by Fall Out Boy off the eponymous album American Beauty/American Psycho; All pages with titles beginning with American Beauty; All pages with titles containing American Beauty; American (disambiguation)
Elliott Smith's cover of the Beatles song "Because" was featured over the end credits for the film. The track "Dead Already" was later featured in the 2005 film Madagascar (which was also a film from DreamWorks Pictures). Newman's "Dead Already" and "Any Other Name" were sampled by Jakatta for his house track "American Dream" in 2000.
The Dum Dot Song (I Put a Penny in the Gum Slot) 1946: Julian Kay Early American: 1964: Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen: East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) 1940, 1961: Brooks Bowman: Ebb Tide: 1958: Robert Maxwell, Carl Sigman: Elizabeth: 1969: Bob Gaudio, Jake Holmes: Embraceable You: 1944, 1960, 1994: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
A soundtrack album for the film was also released, on October 5, 1999, entitled American Beauty: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. That album includes songs by ten of the eleven artists (Annie Lennox's rendition of "Don't Let It Bring You Down" being absent) and two excerpts from the film's score: "Dead Already" and "Any Other ...