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"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), [ 1 ] hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. [ 2 ]
Hy Zaret (born Hyman Harry Zaritsky; August 21, 1907 – July 2, 2007) was an American Tin Pan Alley [1] lyricist and composer who wrote the lyrics of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most-recorded songs of the 20th century. [2]
Unchained “Unchained Melody” music by Alex North, lyrics by Hy Zaret: Les Baxter: 1 10 also Roy Hamilton US #6, Jimmy Young UK #1, Al Hibbler US #3/UK #2, and in 1965 by The Righteous Brothers US #4/UK #14 August 27 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" The Four Aces: music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Paul Francis ...
Unchained Melody: The Early Years or simply The Early Years [1] [2] is the major label reissue of American country singer LeAnn Rimes's second studio album, All That (1994). The album was released in the United States on February 11, 1997 by Curb Records. The album contains seven tracks from All That alongside three new tracks.
It also featured a rendition of the standard "Unchained Melody", the song The Righteous Brothers were to take into the Top 10 later the same year. The album was digitally remastered and reissued on CD on November 29, 2011, by Collectables Records .
The finale sequence features Denny & The Dreamers returning from their triumphant world tour ("Pretty Little Angel Eyes"), and the quartet becomes a quintet as Lois joins them onstage in a doo-wop finale extravaganza ("Do You Love Me/The Twist"/“Rama lama ding dong"/Unchained Melody (Reprise)").
"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret who wrote it in 1936. The year 1936 doesn't come up again, and the article states that the song was commissioned in 1955. Besides, according to the article on William Stirrat the 1936 date is bogus anyway:
A 2011 Rolling Stone reader's poll placed the song at number one on a list of the 10 best Van Halen songs. [3]Chuck Klosterman of Vulture.com named it the second-best Van Halen song, writing that it "merely feels like insatiable straight-ahead rock, but the lick is freaky, obliquely hovering above the foundation while the drums oscillate between two unrelated performance philosophies."