“Originally composed as ‘Monotonous Melody’, for the lack of any other name, the recording was retitled ‘Limbo Rock’ for release as the B-side to ‘Tequila Twist’, the 45 rpm followup to the Champs’ Top 10 hit ‘Tequila’. ‘Tequila Twist’ debuted at #98 in February 1962 on ...
Broadway musical "Camelot" featured music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, the same talented duo behind "My Fair Lady." Composing the music was so stressful on Loewe that he left the musical theater business for more than a decade upon completion. While the play itself was...
"Lara's Theme" started out as just that - the theme music to be played whenever the character was seen onscreen. It was composed by Maurice Jarre. It was well-respected around the world. Paul Webster wrote some lyrics for the theme and it become "Somewhere My Love". Ray Conniff's ver...
Composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, the "West Side Story" film soundtrack upped the production ante on the already-popular Broadway cast recording to wildly successful results. Not only is this album one of the bestselling soundtracks of all time, but it held the #1...
It was composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, and was initially titled 'Tango'. The suggestion of the name 'Fernando' was provided by their limousine driver Peter Forbes in Shepperton. Chiquitita Abba - Chiquitita Originally, this was called 'In The Arms Of Rozellita'. Bjorn liked ...
As the longest-running #1 instrumental song in Billboard’s music chart history, the theme song produced by Percy Faith, and composed by Max Steiner, won the 1960 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Sixteen years later, Faith would turn the #1 hit into a disco version titled “Summer Pl...
that had huge commercials success with a couple of massive hit singles and really serves as the transition of theBee Geesfrom a pop rock bands to a band that would become the ultimate symbol of the Disco Movement with the songs they composed and recorded for theSaturday Night Fever Sound...
From the wiki: “‘Starting Over Again’ was composed by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin as ‘Now We’re Starting Over Again’, and was first recorded in 1981 by Dionne Warwick to augment the live performance tracks released on her albumHot! Live and Otherwise. Produced by co-writer Masser...
“Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers” was included on the 1975 Jeff Black record ‘Blow by Blow.’ It was composed by Stevie Wonder as an apology to Jeff Black. Wonder preferred to say sorry than to say goodbye to the friendship. Next:The best “I’m Sorry” songs to apologize to someone...
" the song title says it all. This is the kind of song that you want to listen to while drowning your sorrows in a bottle of scotch. Painful though the song is, it is also arguably the most shining moment inAl Green's long, glorious career.The Bee Geescomposed and recorded this song...