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"Time" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd. It is included as the fourth track on their eighth album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and was released as a single in the United States. With lyrics written by bassist Roger Waters , guitarist David Gilmour shares lead vocals with keyboardist Richard Wright (his last until " Wearing the ...
"Wild Is the Wind" is a song written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for the 1957 film Wild Is the Wind. Johnny Mathis recorded the song for the film and released it as a single in November 1957. Mathis' version reached No. 22 on the Billboard chart. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song in 1958, but lost to "All the Way" by ...
In the U.S., the song peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] On the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart, "Time" peaked at number 10. [3] In addition, "Time" spent two weeks at number 14 on Cashbox, making it the group's second most successful single ("Don't Answer Me" from 1984 also reached No. 15 on the Hot 100, but reached No. 17 on Cashbox ...
Like its parent album, "Time" has divided critical opinion. Biographer David Buckley calls the full-length version "five minutes of wired perfection" and the lyrics "poetic and succinct", [6] while NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have described the words as sounding "strained and incomplete", concluding that "with such a weak lyric, the overly melodramatic music sounds faintly ...
When the Wind Blows" marked the second contribution from Bowie to a film based on a Raymond Briggs book – he contributed a filmed introduction to The Snowman in 1982. [3] Bowie's song was the result of a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Erdal Kızılçay , who would work with Bowie for another 10 years on such projects as Never Let Me ...
The All American Rejects music video for "The Wind Blows" was directed by Rich Lee and shot between March 30 and 31, 2009 in Malibu, California and was released a month later on April 27. It revolves around the relationship between a character played by lead singer Tyson Ritter and his girlfriend - eventually reaching a neutral ending - with ...
The highest-charting version of the song to date was recorded in 1988 by singer and actress Bette Midler for the soundtrack to the film Beaches. This version was released as a single in early 1989, spent one week at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in June 1989, and won Grammy Awards for both Record of the Year and Song of the ...
4 to ensure the song's commercial appeal. [7] [a] Friedman had written the song about a man but the Association changed the gender in the lyrics. [8] [7] [9] In an interview with Songfacts, she said: [7] [10] I have heard so many different permutations of what the song was about. Here is the TRUTH.