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"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), [ 1 ] hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. [ 2 ]
Hy Zaret (born Hyman Harry Zaritsky; August 21, 1907 – July 2, 2007) was an American Tin Pan Alley [1] lyricist and composer who wrote the lyrics of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most-recorded songs of the 20th century. [2]
Over 1,500 recordings of "Unchained Melody" have been made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages. [2] In 1955, three versions of the song charted in the Top 10 in the United States, [3] and four versions appeared in the Top 20 in the United Kingdom simultaneously, an unbeaten record for any song.
One of these became the famous song "Unchained Melody". [1] Nominated for fifteen Oscars but unsuccessful each time, North is one of only two film composers to receive the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award, the other being Ennio Morricone. North's frequent collaborator as orchestrator was the avant-garde composer Henry Brant.
The re-recorded "Unchained Melody" hit No. 19 on the Hot 100 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [48] They also re-recorded other songs for a budget-priced CD, The Best of The Righteous Brothers, released by Curb Records.
Unchained Melody on the Red Boy label (originally released on Herald) Vito & the Salutations is an Italian / Irish / Jewish-American New York City doo-wop group from the 1960s. They began performing their four-part harmonies while still in high school, getting practice by singing in subways and at railroad stations.
Their version of "Unchained Melody" stayed at number 1 for 7 weeks on the UK Chart, [1] selling more than 1.8 million copies and becoming the best-selling single of 1995. They had two further number-one singles, produced by Mike Stock and Matt Aitken – " I Believe " (1995) and " What Becomes of the Brokenhearted " (1996) [ 2 ] – and two ...
Unchained Melody: The Early Years or simply The Early Years [1] [2] is the major label reissue of All That (1994) by American country singer LeAnn Rimes. The album was released in the United States on February 11, 1997 by Curb Records .