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Its lyrics are the first words heard in act 1 of the opera, following the communal "wa-do-wa". It is sung by Clara as a lullaby . The song theme is reprised soon after as counterpoint to the craps game scene, in act 2 in a reprise by Clara, and in act 3 by Bess, singing to Clara's now-orphaned baby after both parents died in the storm.
On the occasion of his 2019 induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, Ian Tyson would credit Bob Dylan with inspiring Ian & Sylvia to follow his lead in writing "original folk songs":(Ian Tyson quote:)"We had to go in some direction, because we had used up all the real roots music from the Delta on north. Bob blazed the trail into ...
It was originally performed, for the film's soundtrack, by Larry Meredith [1] and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1971. [1] The best known version of the song is by American pop duo the Carpenters which reached No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the US Billboard Easy Listening chart in 1971.
"The Man I Love" is a popular standard with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira Gershwin.Part of the 1924 score for the Gershwin musical comedy Lady, Be Good, the song was deleted from that show and put into the Gershwins' 1927 government satire Strike Up the Band (where it appears as "The Man I Love" and "The Girl I Love"), which closed out-of-town.
Sedaka originally was inspired by Frederic Chopin (his favorite classical composer) for the chorus and by Roberta Flack in the verses. When he presented the tune to Cody, he came up with the words based on his recent divorce; Cody had been playing solitaire frequently as a coping mechanism. Both Sedaka and Cody considered the composition to be ...
"Days of Wine and Roses" is a popular song, from the 1962 film of the same name. [1]The music was written by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. [1] They received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for their work, [1] as well as the 1964 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. [2]
"As Time Goes By" is a jazz song written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931. It became famous when it featured in the 1942 film Casablanca , performed by Dooley Wilson as Sam. The song was voted No. 2 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs special, commemorating the best songs in film [ 1 ] (surpassed only by " Over the Rainbow " sung by Judy Garland ).
It has been suggested that the song to which Kristofferson was referring is "Turn Me On", written by Nashville songwriter John D. Loudermilk, which was originally recorded by Mark Dinning in 1961 and later covered by many other artists, including Nina Simone, and which shares a similar melody and some lyrical patterns with Cohen's song.