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"Key Largo" is the debut single by Bertie Higgins, released in September 1981. It became, in early 1982, Higgins' only top 40 hit in the United States, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The track spent 17 weeks in the top 40 and was certified gold by the RIAA. [2] In addition, "Key Largo" topped the Adult Contemporary chart for ...
By the end of 1992, "Tears in Heaven" sold more than 2,300,000 copies in the United States alone. [14] The pop single also received a lot of airplay, charting 20 weeks on the Top Radio Songs chart, peaking at number three, and reaching position nine on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart, where "Tears in Heaven" stayed for a total of 18 weeks. [15]
Elbert Joseph "Bertie" Higgins (born December 8, 1944) [4] is an American singer-songwriter. [5] In 1982, Higgins had a top 40 album with Just Another Day in Paradise.It spawned the hit song "Key Largo", which referenced the Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall film of the same name and reached No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100, No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and No. 50 on the ...
Clapton was nominated for nine Grammy Awards at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards in 1993 and won six, including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance - Male, Best Rock Vocal Performance – Male, and Best Rock Song. [2] [16] Although "Tears in Heaven" also earned three Grammy Awards, it was the version ...
Just Another Day in Paradise is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Bertie Higgins, released in 1982.. Singles from the album include the title track, the Top 10 single "Key Largo" and "Casablanca", both tributes to the 1942 film of the same name.
Andrews enjoyed further solo success throughout the 1970s and 1980s with songs such as "Just For Me", "A Sinner's Prayer" and a live 1981 recording of James Cleveland's hit song "I Appreciate". Andrews claimed to have written the gospel standard "No Tears In Heaven" early in her singing career.
"Size of Sorrow" was written by Roland Orzabal in the 1990s and was first performed live during Tears for Fears' Elemental tour in 1993, as one of several new and unreleased songs at that time. This earlier version featured slightly different lyrics and the lead vocal was performed by vocalist/bass player Gail Ann Dorsey who was working and ...
The song won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1981, [25] and was nominated for three Grammys, but did not win. [26] [b] In the U.S., it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and on the Hot Adult Contemporary charts in October 1981, remaining at the top of the Hot 100 for three weeks while it also was a top-ten hit in several other ...