The 1970 romantic drama film Love Story is one of the highest grossing films of all time. While the film was in production, writer Erich Segal - at the request of Paramount Pictures - wrote the story as a novel. The book was released on Valentine's Day of 1970 to pre-promote the film. The book was a best seller before the movie was released. After its release, the movie was nominated for seven 1970 Academy Awards, winning one - Best Music - Original Score. After the popularity of Francis Lai's instrumental theme, lyrics were later added by Carl Sigman. The song has been covered numerous times, most famously by Andy Williams - who recorded it numerous times. In 1971, Shirley Bassey had a hit with the song, which appeared on her Something Else album.
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Legendary bandleader Cab Calloway was born in Rochester, New York on Christmas Day in 1907. In 1918, after the death of his father, he moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he worked as a shoe shine and a newsboy while attending school. Cab was introduced to jazz music and performing by his older sister Blanche - a jazz singer and band leader in Baltimore. After meeting jazz pianist Tommy Jones and drummer Chick Webb, Cab was soon performing regularly in Baltimore nightclubs. While touring with his sister in a musical - Plantation Days - Cab ended up in Chicago, where he briefly attended Lincoln University studying law. In Chicago he met Louis Armstrong - who taught him how to scat. Cab's big break came in 1929 when Duke Ellington asked Cab Calloway and His Orchestra to temporarily replace him as the house band at Harlem's Cotton Club. In 1934 - the year after the end of prohibition - Cab Calloway recorded a song about a "new dance craze", Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz. Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan - known as The Divine One - released a cover of Misty on her 1958 Vaughan and Violins album. The song was originally an instrumental jazz standard written in 1954 by pianist Erroll Garner. The song was later given lyrics by Johnny Burke at the request of Johnny Mathis. By 1958 when Mathis recorded the song - which later became his signature song - several other versions had been recorded. In 1971, the popularity of the song inspired Clint Eastwood to use it in his low-buget box office success Play Misty For Me. In 1991, the original Eric Garner version was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame, and in 2002 the Johnny Mathis version was inducted. In early 1965 The Animals released Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - hitting #3 on the UK singles chart, and hitting #15 on the US pop singles chart. The song had been written for jazz singer Nina Simone, who first recorded it the previous year. The slow-tempo original version was released on Simone's Broadway-Blues-Ballads album. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - which has become one of Simone's most well-known songs - was also released as a single that year, but it failed to chart. The song has been released countless times over the past 50 years in many different styles and genres by artists including Santa Esmeralda, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Alabina and many others. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood has also been sampled by artists including Common and Lil Wayne. The song was also recently recorded by singer Lana Del Ray for her upcoming album Honeymoon - due to be released on September 18, 2015. |
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