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"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" is a song performed and co-written by American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross as the main theme for the 1981 film Arthur, starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli. It was recognized as the year's Best Original Song at both the 54th Academy Awards and 39th Golden Globe Awards. [2]
The singles "Sailing" (1979), and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" (from the 1981 film Arthur) peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] "Sailing" earned three Grammys in 1980, [ 5 ] while "Arthur's Theme" won in 1982 the Oscar for Best Original Song (with co-composers Burt Bacharach , Carole Bayer Sager , and ...
There’s nothing more instantly recognizable about Arthur than its titular yellow-sweatered, eye-glassed aardvark, but the lyrics and music of the PBS KIDS’ series theme song might come in a ...
Arthur Christmas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the score album to the film of the same name directed by Sarah Smith. The film's original score is composed and produced by Harry Gregson-Williams and released on 14 November 2011 by Madison Gate Records . [ 1 ]
Interestingly, "Arthur's Big Hit" also happens to be one of the more divisive episodes in the show's history, with fans criticizing Arthur for raising his fist against little sister, D.W., after ...
The song popularized the title expression "que sera, sera" to express "cheerful fatalism", though its use in English dates back to at least the 16th century. The phrase is evidently a word-for-word mistranslation of the English "What will be will be", [ 8 ] as in Spanish, it would be " lo que será, será ".
A version of the song has been produced by the band Fantômas, who altered some of the lyrics to mean "smallest blood, body spirit" rather than "we drink the blood, we eat the flesh," and added the word "rotted". Other versions of the original song have been performed by the Italian vocalist Servio Tulio, and by Gregorian.
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.