Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things (The Sound of Music) Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Seal – Kiss From A Rose (Batman Forever) Frankie Laine – Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’ (High Noon) Liza Minnelli – Cabaret (Cabaret) Looking ...
Set against the backdrop of 1931 Berlin, Cabaret is a musical drama that intertwines love and politics. It showcases the life of Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli), an American cabaret singer in the city's decadent Kit Kat Klub, and Brian Roberts (Michael York), a British academic. Master of...
“In response to a publisher’s request for a simpler song, Bart Howard wrote a cabaret ballad in waltz time which he titled ‘In Other Words’. A publisher tried to make him change some lyrics from ‘fly me to the moon’ to ‘take me to the moon’ but Howard refused to do this....
The title track from Talk Talk's second album has boasted subsequent lives since its release in 1984, first a year later when it was rereleased to little notice in the band's native U.K. and then in 1990 after it was pulled as a single from a group compilation album and then became ...
It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman. I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just had to be a star or something. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Famous Musicians A$AP Rocky Sean “Diddy” Combs Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s Rap Beef, Explained ...
In the 1920s and early ’30s, Prohibition’s end gave way to the “Pansy Craze”: cabaret drag performances that brought gay nightlife to the masses and carried their aesthetics into mainstream musical theater. In the mid-’30s, at the edge of the Great Depression, moral backlash—sometim...
In 1981, Marc Almond was inspired by his flat in Soho, saying: “That was Brewer Street in the rain, outside the Pink Piano bar where the drag artists used to sing, with the neon light from the Raymond Revue Bar reflected on the wet streets. It was what Non-Sop Erotic Cabaret was ...
It is a 1945 arrangement recorded by French cabaret tenor Emile-Jean Vanni-Marcoux.] From the wiki: “‘(I Can’t Help) Falling in Love’ was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore and George Weiss (‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight‘, ‘What a Wonderful World’) based on a popular romance...
He might as well have invented the torch song, the way he took it up and ran with it once this track revealed where some of his truest sensibilities were. Today, it’s not difficult to find cabaret singers who will put “Almost Blue” into the repertoire right alongside the Great America...
In a grand entrance,Lady Gagaemerged behind a heart-shaped plume of feathers on the golden steps of Square Barye, captivating the audience with her cover of the French classic "Montrucenplumes." Accompanied by cabaret-style background dancers, she flawlessly belted out the song, executed impre...