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"Choices" is a song written by American country music singer Billy Yates and Mike Curtis, first recorded by Yates on his 1997 self-titled album for Almo Sounds. [1] It was later covered by George Jones , who released as the first single from his album The Cold Hard Truth on May 8, 1999, and it peaked at number 30 on the Billboard country charts.
His father, George Washington Jones, worked in a shipyard and played harmonica and guitar; his mother, Clara (née Patterson), played piano in the Pentecostal Church on Sundays. [6] When Jones was born, one of the doctors dropped him and broke his arm. [6] He heard country music for the first time when he was seven, when his parents bought a radio.
Released in 1901, the British film Attack on a China Mission was one of the first films to show a continuity of action across multiple scenes. [33] The use of the intertitle to explain actions and dialogue on screen began in the early 1900s. Filmed intertitles were first used in Robert W. Paul's film, Scrooge, or Marley's Ghost. [54]
Its most popular song was "Choices", a confessional ballad tailor-made for Jones to sing. The music video, which features photographs of the singer throughout his life, had a more gripping resonance in light of Jones's recent drunk driving incident with lines like, "Now I'm living and dying with the choices I've made."
The first public screenings of films at which admission was charged were made in 1895 by the American Woodville Latham and his sons, using films produced by their Eidoloscope company, [7] by the Skladanowsky brothers and by the – arguably better known – French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière with ten of their own productions.
In The Kiss, May Irwin and John Rice re-enact the kiss from the New York stage hit The Widow Jones, the first film of a couple kissing. [15] The House of the Devil, the first horror film. [citation needed] Le Coucher de la Mariée, a French erotic short film considered to be one of the first erotic films made. The film was first screened in ...
The origins of film music are disputed, although they are generally considered to have aesthetic roots in various media forms associated with nineteenth-century Romanticism. [30] According to Kurt London, film music "began not as a result of any artistic urge, but from a dire need of something which would drown the noise made by the projector ...
Two years later, however, more than 80 percent of movies made in the country were still silents. [105] Two of the country's leading directors, Mikio Naruse and Yasujirō Ozu, did not make their first sound films until 1935 and 1936, respectively. [106] As late as 1938, over a third of all movies produced in Japan were shot without dialogue. [105]