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The song reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Adult contemporary chart for six non-consecutive weeks in September/October 1966 [2] The R&B group the Hesitations recorded a cover that peaked at #38 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1968. [3] "Born Free" also appeared on the Vic Reeves album I Will Cure You.
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya.
The music video-short film, filmed in Los Angeles and Lancaster, California on 15 January 2010 was written by M.I.A. and directed by French director Romain Gavras. [2] Gavras, who directed the video for the song "Stress" by Justice which proved controversial after release, dealt with themes of "real and fake" which complemented M.I.A.'s vision for the video.
Both "Born Free" and "On Days Like These" (from the film The Italian Job) had lyrics by Don Black. In the late 1960s, he recorded another Udo Jürgens song with the name "Was Ich Dir Sagen Will". It was adapted to English as "The Music Played". Monro recorded a Spanish version of the song with the adapted title of "Alguien Cantó".
Born Free is the twentieth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released on April 10, 1967, by Columbia Records [1] and includes half a dozen songs associated with movies or musicals.
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"Born Free" is a song by English Tamil recording artist M.I.A., released alongside an accompanying short film/music video of the same name from her third album, Maya. XL Recordings and Interscope Records / N.E.E.T. released "Born Free" as a digital download from the album on 23 April 2010, with the music video released on 26 April 2010.
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