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The best-known version of the song was a hit for Barbra Streisand in 1971 (as "Hands Off The Man (Flim Flam Man)"). It was the final single of three releases from her Stoney End LP. The song was suggested to Streisand by record producer Richard Perry. The song reached number 82 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1971.
The movie is set in the countryside and small towns of the American South, and it was filmed in the Anderson and Clark counties, Kentucky, area. It is also noted for its folksy musical score by composer Jerry Goldsmith. The movie's title song "Flim Flam Man," written by Laura Nyro, later became a hit for Barbra Streisand. [4]
It also included three hit songs: "Stoney End", "Time and Love" and "Flim Flam Man". They appeared on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts. The album peaked at #10 in the United States; it was the first of hers in five years to have reached the top 10.
Emotion (Barbra Streisand song) Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born) F. Fine and Dandy; Flim Flam Man (song) For All We Know (1934 song) Free Again (Barbra ...
Starting with this release, the song "Hands Off the Man" was retitled "Flim Flam Man (Hands Off the Man)". Columbia Records re-issued The First Songs with all-new cover art (featuring a rose illustration) in 1973. In 1999, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [2]
"Where You Lead" is one of two Carole King/ Toni Stern collaborations featured on Tapestry, the other being the #1 single "It's Too Late".King had written the music and the majority of the lyric for "Where You Lead" when she solicited the assistance of Stern, saying: "I can't write the bridge to this: if you can figure out the bridge you can get [co-writing] credit for the song."
"The Flim Flam Man" The Stews shun Mulligan when he refuses to follow the direction of a macrobiotics-like fad diet promoter, who tricks the rest of the kids into trying his fad diets. A concerned Mulligan frantically seeks assistance from Wilbur, who engages the con man in a nutritional duel. Mulligan is ultimately proven correct, but not ...
Laura Nyro (/ ˈ n ɪər oʊ / NEER-oh; [1] born Laura Nigro; October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and singer.She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969), and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and the 5th Dimension recording her songs.