Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Your Man" is a song recorded by American country music artist Josh Turner. It was released in July 2005 as the lead-off single and title track from his album of the same name . The fourth chart single of his career, it became his first number one hit on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in early 2006.
Its lyrics are the first words heard in act 1 of the opera, following the communal "wa-do-wa". It is sung by Clara as a lullaby . The song theme is reprised soon after as counterpoint to the craps game scene, in act 2 in a reprise by Clara, and in act 3 by Bess, singing to Clara's now-orphaned baby after both parents died in the storm.
The piano introduction of the song is taken from Ray Charles' version of "Georgia On My Mind", which plays the same introduction on strings. In their first songwriting session at Henley's home in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, Henley played Frey the unfinished version of the song, and said: "When I play it and sing it, I think of Ray Charles and ...
"Stand by Your Man" is a song recorded by the American country music artist Tammy Wynette, co-written by Wynette and Billy Sherrill. It was released on September 20, 1968, as the first single and title track from the album Stand by Your Man .
With "When I Was Your Man" topping the Billboard Hot 100, Mars reached the same mark as Diddy, Ludacris, Prince and Lionel Richie. Elvis Presley was the only male who reached five leaders more quickly. [42] On the Radio Songs chart, "When I Was Your Man" peaked at number one, becoming Mars's fifth number-one on the chart. Among men, Mars tied ...
The song originally used the same title as the film and had a different set of lyrics, but this was changed at the request of the film's producers. Parr told Simon Mayo in 1988, "The lyrics originally went 'Would you bet your life on a running man?', but [the producers] decided it was too close to the film and too downbeat.
Page recalls attending the sessions, but session musicians on the Bond films were separately relegated to the instrumental score versions of songs, while the main musicians (on Goldfinger: Vic Flick) were given the main theme song to solely record, to be featured at the beginning of the film, [8] leaving Page as a background acoustic contributor to Flick on the instrumental version of the song.
An ode to classic Hollywood icons, "Celluloid Heroes" analyses the juxtaposition between success and failure in the context of American show business. Ray Davies, who wrote the song, had spent time in Hollywood and found amusement in "the ironic fact that the stars were on the street and you could walk all over them."