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With Love (Michael Crawford Album)
''With Love'' (titled ''The Phantom Unmasked'' in North America and Australasia) is the second studio album by English actor and singer Michael Crawford, together with the London Symphony Orchestra. It was originally released in 1989 on Telstar Records. Continuing on a similar theme to his previous album ''Songs from the Stage and Screen'' (1987), ''With Love'' features Crawford singing show tunes from various musical theatre and films, but also includes two covers of pop songs. Critical reception In a review for AllMusic, Steven McDonald gave ''With Love'' four stars out of five, commenting that it was "a better showing" for Crawford than his previous album ''Songs from the Stage and Screen''. He went on to say that a "big surprise" was Art of Noise keyboardist Anne Dudley's arranging and conducting on " When I Fall in Love", "that would make rranger and orchestratorNelson Riddle nod appreciatively." Track listing Personnel Adapted from the album's liner notes. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Crawford
Michael Patrick Smith, (born 19 January 1942), known professionally as Michael Crawford, is an English tenor, actor and comedian. Crawford is best known for playing both the hapless Frank Spencer in the sitcom '' Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em'' and the title role in the musical '' The Phantom of the Opera''. His acclaimed performance in the latter earned him both the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical. He has received international critical acclaim and won numerous awards during his acting career, which has included many film and television performances as well as stage work on both London's West End and on Broadway. Crawford has also published the autobiography ''Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied With String''. Since 1987, he has served as the leader and public face for the British social cause organization the Sick Children's Trust. Early life and education Crawford was brought up by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
"What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" is a song with lyrics written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and original music written by Michel Legrand for the 1969 film ''The Happy Ending''. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost out to "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". The same title was used 25 years earlier by Ted Koehler and Burton Lane for their song for the 1944 film Hollywood Canteen. A Ted Weems recording of 1938 also has an identical title. Background Alan Bergman would recall that after Michel Legrand had written eight melodies which were somehow not viable for the film, Marilyn Bergman suggested the opening line "What are you doing the rest of your life?", and Legrand then completed the song's melody based on that phrase. Marilyn Bergman would later comment on the dual meanings of the phrase "What are you doing the rest of your life?" to the film: its title alludes to the marriage proposal Mary Spencer (played by Jean Simmons) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Being Alive
"Being Alive" is a song from the musical ''Company'' by George Furth with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The song appears at the end of act two and is sung by the main character, Robert, a 35-year-old bachelor who at the show's end "...realizes being a lone wolf isn't all it's cracked up to be ... he declares that he wants to take the chance, be afraid, get his heart broken - or whatever happens when you decide to love and be loved." Context "Being Alive" appears at the end of Act II of the musical ''Company'' by George Furth with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The song is sung by the main character, Robert (Bobby), who is facing his 35th birthday and the prospect of living the rest of his life alone. Prior to singing "Being Alive", Robert reflects on the relationships of five couples, his "...good and crazy married friends—Susan and Peter, Sarah and Harry, Amy and Paul, Jenny and David, and Joanne and Larry..." along with the relationships he has with three of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headed For The Future
''Headed for the Future'' is the seventeenth studio album released by Neil Diamond in March 1986 on Columbia Records. The album went to number 20 on the US ''Billboard'' 200. ''Headed for the Future'' has also been certified Gold in the US by the RIAA. Overview The album's title track reached the top 10 on the ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart. Another single, "The Story of My Life", reached No. 11 on the same chart. Track listing Personnel Musicians * Neil Diamond – main performer on all tracks "Headed for the Future" * Alan Lindgren – synthesizers, pianos, arrangements * Tom Hensley – pianos, synthesizers, arrangements * Richard Bennett – guitar * Doug Rhone – guitar * Hadley Hockensmith – guitar * Reinie Press – bass * Ron Tutt – drums * King Errisson – percussion, congas * Vince Charles – percussion, steel drums * Linda Press – backing vocals (These musicians were at the time all members of Neil Diamond's official backing band, known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had ten No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: " Cracklin' Rosie", " Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", " I've Been This Way Before", " If You Know What I Mean", " Desirée", " You Don't Bring Me Flowers", " America", " Yesterday's Songs", and " Heartlight". Thirty-eight songs by Diamond have reached the top 10 on the '' Billboard'' Adult Contemporary charts, including " Sweet Caroline". He has also acted in films, making his screen debut in the 1980 musical drama film '' The Jazz Singer''. Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011, he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the Grammy Life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, Porter defied his grandfather's wishes for him to practice law and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs. After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 1930s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, '' Kiss Me, Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" is a popular jazz song with lyrics and music by Cole Porter. Part of the Great American Songbook, it was published by Chappell & Company and introduced by Nan Wynn and Jere McMahon in 1944 in Billy Rose's musical revue ''Seven Lively Arts''. The lyrics celebrate how happy the singer is in the company of the beloved, but suffering equally whenever the two separate. Describing it by analogy as a musical "change from major to minor", Porter begins with an A major chord and ends with an A minor one, matching the mood of the music to the words. The Benny Goodman Quintet (vocal by Peggy Mann Margaret Dunlap ( Germano, September 28, 1918 – August 13, 1988), better known as Peggy Mann, was an American Big Band singer who was prominent in the 1930s and 1940s. She worked with the likes of Henry Halstead, Ben Pollack, Larry Clinton, ...) enjoyed a hit record with the song in 1945. Other notable recordings References {{authority control Songs a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Break (film)
''Fast Break'' is a 1979 American sports comedy film directed by Jack Smight and produced by Stephen Friedman. The film stars Gabe Kaplan as David Greene, Harold Sylvester as D.C. and Bernard King as Hustler. The film was Kaplan's big-screen debut, although he had made earlier appearances on television sitcoms and movies, and was one of the first film appearances of Laurence Fishburne. This film also featured the hit song " With You I'm Born Again" by Billy Preston and Syreeta, which was released in November 1979 and peaked at #4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The duo also recorded the film's theme song, "Go for It", released as a single in April of the same year. The film's soundtrack was released by Motown Records. Smight called it "a very funny and profitable film." Plot David Greene is a basketball fanatic living in Brooklyn, New York who alternates his time between playing in neighborhood pickup basketball games and managing a delicatessen. Formerly a junior high-school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Connors (singer)
Carol Connors (born Annette Kleinbard, November 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. She is perhaps best known as the lead vocalist on the Teddy Bears' single, "To Know Him Is To Love Him", which was written by her bandmate Phil Spector. Biography Early life Connors was born Annette Kleinbard on November 13, 1941, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.Liami LawrenceFrom Elvis to ‘Rocky’ – the charmed life of Carol Connors ''The Jerusalem Post'', March 24, 2014 Her parents were Polish Jews. She lost many relatives in the Holocaust. She attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, California. Career She was the lead singer of the pop vocal trio known as the Teddy Bears, which also included Phil Spector. The Teddy Bears' only major hit, "To Know Him Is To Love Him", which Spector wrote specifically to showcase Connors' singing voice, reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in late 1958, also becoming the first woman to chart. After their initial hit, the trio disbanded b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Shire
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtracks to the 1976 film '' The Big Bus'', '' The Taking of Pelham One Two Three'', '' The Conversation'' and '' All the President's Men'', and parts of the ''Saturday Night Fever'' soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline", are some of his best-known works. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film '' Return to Oz'' (the "sequel-in-part" of ''The Wizard of Oz''), and the stage musical scores of '' Baby'', ''Big'', ''Closer Than Ever'', and ''Starting Here, Starting Now''. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn. Education and early career Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, to Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving Daniel Shire. His family was Jewish. His secondary education was at the Nichols School. He met his long-time theater collaborator lyricist/director Richard Maltby, Jr. at Yale Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Ruth Dickson (born 27 September 1947) is a Scottish singer and actress whose hits include ' I Know Him So Well', ' Answer Me' and ' January February'. Dickson has placed fifteen albums on the UK Albums Chart from 1977 to date, and had a number of hit singles, including four which reached the top 20 on the UK Singles Chart. ''The Scotsman'' newspaper has described her as Scotland's best-selling female singer in terms of the numbers of hit chart singles and albums she has achieved in the UK since 1976. She is also a twice Olivier Award-winning actress, with roles including Viv Nicholson in the musical '' Spend Spend Spend'', and was the original Mrs. Johnstone in Willy Russell's long-running musical '' Blood Brothers''. On television she starred as Anita Braithwaite in '' Band of Gold''. Career Early years Dickson was born in Dunfermline and went to Woodmill High School and Dunfermline High School. Previously she lived in "Dollytown", Rosyth, a prefab housing esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
With You I'm Born Again
"With You I'm Born Again" is a 1979 duet written by Carol Connors and David Shire that originated on the soundtrack of the 1979 motion picture ''Fast Break''. It was performed by Motown recording artists Billy Preston and Syreeta Wright (credited as Syreeta) and became an international hit for the duo, reaching number four on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. and number two on the UK singles chart. History The music from ''Fast Break'' was credited to David Shire and James DiPasquale, and Carol Connors put words to four of the songs on the soundtrack album. Connors recalls, "I had written most of the lyrics to 'With You I'm Born Again' in 22 minutes, but I couldn't find two words and it was driving me crazy.". The right words came to her on her way to an ice cream parlor, where she requested a pencil and paper along with her order. "I had finally found it—the line I was seeking--'Come show me your kindness, in your arms I know I'll find this'—and I wanted to get it down on paper." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
