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Television's Greatest Hits, Volume II: 65 More TV Themes from the '50s & '60s is a 1986 compilation album of television theme songs from the 1950s and 1960s released by TVT Records as the second volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series. The album catalog was later acquired by The Bicycle Music Company.
Television's Greatest Hits: 65 TV Themes! From the '50s and '60s is a compilation album of television theme songs released by Tee-Vee Toons in 1985 as the first volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series. It was initially released as a double LP record featuring 65 themes from television shows ranging from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s.
Neil Sedaka: The '50s and '60s is a compilation album containing some of the works of the American rock-and-pop singer Neil Sedaka. It features some songs he recorded during the period from 1959 to 1966, when he was under contract to RCA Victor Records. The album was released in 1977 on the RCA Victor label.
The Greatest Songs of the Sixties is Barry Manilow's sequel album for The Greatest Songs of the Fifties. The album was another major hit for Manilow in the United States, selling nearly 50% more than his previous album in its opening week. As with its predecessor, this album was produced by Clive Davis, along with Manilow and David Benson.
The song is credited to Anthony September as songwriter in some sources. [1] This was a pseudonym of Anthony Mammarella, producer of American Bandstand . The original recording of the song by Charlie Gracie reached No. 1 on the Billboard Juke Box chart, No. 10 on the R&B chart and No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart in 1957.
A teenage tragedy song is a style of sentimental ballad in popular music that peaked in popularity in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lamenting teenage death scenarios in melodramatic fashion, these songs were variously sung from the viewpoint of the dead person's romantic interest, another witness to the tragedy, or the dead or dying person.
A 2010 European survey conducted by the digital broadcaster Music Choice, interviewing over 11,000 participants, rated the decade rather low, with only 19% declaring it the best tune decade in the last 50 years, [80] while participants of an American land line survey rated the 1960s a bit higher, with 26% declaring it as best decade in music.
"Wish You Were Here" is a popular song with music and lyrics by Harold Rome, the title tune from his 1952 show, Wish You Were Here. It was introduced in the show and on the RCA Victor cast album [1] by Jack Cassidy.