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Urban Cowboy is a 1980 American romantic Western film directed by James Bridges. The plot concerns the love-hate relationship between Buford "Bud" Davis ( John Travolta ) and Sissy ( Debra Winger ). The film's success was credited for spurring a mainstream revival of country music . [ 2 ]
Urban Cowboy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1980 film Urban Cowboy. It spawned numerous Top 10 Billboard Country Singles, such as #1 "Lookin' for Love" by Johnny Lee, #1 "Stand by Me" by Mickey Gilley, #3 "Look What You've Done to Me" by Boz Scaggs, #1 "Could I Have This Dance" by Anne Murray, and #4 "Love the World Away" by Kenny Rogers.
In 1950, he opened the Bounty Ballroom. In 1958, he moved his operation to the former Bob Wills Ranch House. And that's where The Longhorn was run from. The Longhorn nearly became the site for the filming of Urban Cowboy, but Gilley's with its larger space became the final choice. [1]
The song was written during the Urban Cowboy fad [7] while living with his wife in Manhattan next to a gay country bar on Christopher Street called Boots and Saddles. He explains, "Gay life in 1981 was very vibrant in those days. It was part of the culture of the city and cowboy imagery is a part of gay iconography." He wrote the song with ...
"Look What You've Done to Me" is a song recorded by Boz Scaggs for the film Urban Cowboy. It was written by Scaggs and David Foster , and produced by Foster and Bill Schnee . The song reached No. 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in November 1980, No. 13 on the Cash Box Top 100, [ 1 ] reached No. 30 in Canada and went to No. 3 on the US Adult ...
Robert Edwin Morrison (born August 6, 1942) is an American country songwriter based in Nashville.More than 350 of his songs have been recorded. His most successful compositions are the Grammy-winning Kenny Rogers song, "You Decorated My Life" and the Grammy-nominated "Lookin' for Love," the theme song for the 1980 John Travolta film, Urban Cowboy, recorded by Johnny Lee.
One month before the film Urban Cowboy on May 11, the single entered the Billboard ' s Hot 100 chart at the position #74; and on July 20 it peaked at #19 (for 2 weeks) and spent 16 weeks on the Hot 100, making it one of Walsh's highest-charting solo singles. [4] On the Canadian pop singles chart, it reached #13 for three weeks. [5]
Dan Fogelberg was born in Peoria, Illinois.He was the youngest of three sons born to Margaret (née Irvine), (1920–2015), a classically trained pianist, and Lawrence Peter Fogelberg, (1911–1982), a band director at Woodruff High School in Peoria, at Pekin Community High School in Pekin, Illinois, [2] and at Bradley University in Peoria. [3]