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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 ...
Arthur is a 1981 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Steve Gordon.It stars Dudley Moore as Arthur Bach, a drunken New York City millionaire who is on the brink of an arranged marriage to a wealthy heiress but ends up falling for a common working-class young woman from Queens.
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 ...
All songs written by Christopher Cross, except "Deal 'Em Again", co-written by Michael Maben, and the bonus track "Arthur's Theme," co-written by Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen. "No Time for Talk" - 4:22 "Baby Says No" - 6:04 "What Am I Supposed to Believe" (Duet with Karla Bonoff) - 4:22 "Deal 'Em Again" - 3:10
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.
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 ".
FRANKTOWN, Va. (AP) — Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup helped invent rock ‘n’ roll. His 1946 song “That’s All Right,” an easygoing shrug to a lover, would become the first single Elvis ...