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The song is heard in a choral rendition by Ken Darby in the 1968 John Wayne film The Green Berets, based on Robin Moore's book. The film's score was not released as an album until Film Score Monthly released it in 2005.
The writer Robin Moore, author of the novel The Green Berets, which became a 1968 movie, The Green Berets, featuring John Wayne, helped Sadler with lyrics and with getting a recording contract with RCA Victor Records. "The Ballad of the Green Berets" arranged as a choral version by Ken Darby was the title song of the
The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film directed by ... As a title song, the producers used a Ken Darby choral arrangement of Barry Sadler's 1966 hit song ...
The song was adapted from the Civil War-era song "Aura Lee." [1] Presley's composing credit was mandated by his management, to entice him to record the song. [2] Darby was often asked about his decision to credit the song to his wife along with Presley, and his standard response was an acid, "Because she didn't write it either." [2]
The deluxe version features all 16 songs as the original, plus two additional songs played in the movie: Gosling's cover of "Push" by Matchbox 20, and Brandi Carlile's take on "Closer to Fine" by ...
Miklós Rózsa (Hungarian: [ˈmikloːʃ ˈroːʒɒ]; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) [1] was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953 onward. [2]
“I’m Just Ken,” the showstopping number performed by Ryan Gosling in “Barbie,” took Mark Ronson and co-songwriting partner Andrew Wyatt just two days to write. “But we needed the ...
For the award show production, Gosling, who played Ken in the movie, was joined by more than 62 dancing Kens, 24 Barbie heads, Slash from Guns N' Roses and a 40-piece orchestra, according to Variety.