"""Unbreakable""; this made him the only rapper to appear on multiple Jackson LPs. ""Earth Song"" was described as a ""slow blues-operatic"", and its lyrics pertain to environmental concerns. On ""HIStory"", Jackson covered Charlie Chaplin's ""Smile"" and The Beatles' ""Come Together"". ""2 Bad"" is a track heavily influenced by hip-hop, featuring a sample of Run–D.M.C.'s King of Rock and another guest rap verse by Shaquille O'Neal. The similarity in lyrics and name have led to some seeing it as a spiritual successor to Jackson's 1987 track, Bad. ""Stranger in Moscow"" is a pop ballad that is interspersed with sounds of rain,"
"""The Ed Sullivan Show"" in 1963. Nat King Cole recorded the first version with lyrics. It charted in 1954, reaching number 10 on the ""Billboard"" charts and number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. Singer Michael Jackson often cited ""Smile"" as his favourite song and recorded it for his 1995 double album """". It was scheduled to be released as the seventh and final single from the album in 1998. However, it was cancelled at the last minute and only a few copies, mostly promos, went into circulation in the UK, South Africa and the Netherlands, making it one of"
"HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (usually shortened to HIStory) is the ninth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995. It was Jackson's fifth album released through Epic Records, and the first released on his label MJJ Productions. The album was Jackson's first studio album since his 1991 album ""Dangerous"" nearly four years prior, and his first new material to be released since being accused of child sexual abuse in 1993. ""HIStory"" consists of two discs: the first, ""HIStory Begins"", is a greatest hits compilation; the second,"
"AllMusic. HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (usually shortened to HIStory) is the ninth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995. It was Jackson's fifth album released through Epic Records, and the first released on his label MJJ Productions. The album was Jackson's first studio album since his 1991 album ""Dangerous"" nearly four years prior, and his first new material to be released since being accused of child sexual abuse in 1993. ""HIStory"" consists of two discs: the first, ""HIStory Begins"", is a greatest hits compilation; the"
"HIStory (Michael Jackson song) ""HIStory"" is a 1995 song by Michael Jackson. The original version of ""HIStory"" was released as a track on Jackson's 1995 studio album """", but was never released as a single. ""HIStory"" was composed by Michael Jackson, James Harris III and Terry Lewis before it was remixed by Tony Moran in 1997. The original version contained many historic audio clips and samples. The remix does not have the audio clips and samples. The remix was released as part of the single release ""HIStory""/""Ghosts"", a double A-side single from Michael Jackson's 1997 remix album """", with ""Ghosts"""
"""Somewhere Along the Way"" 1952 #8, ""Answer Me, My Love"" 1954 #6, ""A Blossom Fell"" 1955 #2, ""If I May"" 1955 #8, ""Send for Me"" 1957 #6, ""Looking Back"" 1958 #5, ""Ramblin' Rose"" 1962 #2, ""Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer"" 1963 #6, ""Unforgettable"" 1991 (with daughter Natalie) Nat King Cole Nathaniel Adams Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American jazz pianist and vocalist. He recorded over one hundred songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole"
"Smile (Charlie Chaplin song) ""Smile"" is a song based on an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's 1936 movie ""Modern Times"". Chaplin composed the music, inspired by Puccini's ""Tosca"". John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954. In the lyrics, based on lines and themes from the film, the singer is telling the listener to cheer up and that there is always a bright tomorrow, just as long as they smile. ""Smile"" has become a popular standard since its original use in Chaplin's film. Judy Garland sang a memorable version of ""Smile"" on"
"the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, including one number-one hit ""Black or White"", ""Remember the Time"", ""In the Closet"" and ""Will You Be There"" which produced and performed by Jackson the theme for the film ""Free Willy"". In June 1995, Jackson released his ninth album, """", a double album. The first disc, ""HIStory Begins"", is a 15-track greatest hits album. The second disc, ""HIStory Continues"", contains 13 original songs and two cover versions. The album features the hits ""Scream"", a duet with Jackson's youngest sister Janet Jackson, ""Earth Song"", ""They Don't Care About Us"", and ""You Are Not Alone"". ""You Are Not"
"Smile"" was first released onto YouTube on June 28, 2012 at a total length of three minutes. Sara Smile ""Sara Smile"" is a song written and recorded by the American musical duo Hall & Oates. It was released on January 31, 1976 as the second single from their album ""Daryl Hall & John Oates"". The song was the group's first Top 10 hit in the US, reaching number four on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""Sara Smile"" was the second single released from Hall & Oates' 1975 self-titled album for RCA Records. Cowritten by both halves of the duo, it was"
"as a brand new recording. ""HIStory"" was originally written and composed by Michael Jackson, James Harris III and Terry Lewis in 1995. It was the thirteenth track on the studio album """", but was not released as a single. The song sampled multiple musical compositions and historical audio quotes, all of which were dispersed throughout the track. Early in the track, one even included quotes from an interview with a young Michael Jackson from 1970. Musical compositions sampled include ""Beethoven Lives Upstairs"" and ""The Great Gate of Kiev"" from ""Pictures at an Exhibition"". In reissues of the album, the ""Pictures"
"Sunset Strip music scene. Priore worked as the primary writer and creative consultant on the AMC documentaries ""Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970)"" and ""Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s"". Domenic Priore Domenic Priore (born 1960) is an American author, historian and television producer whose focus is on popular music and its attendant youth culture. He is regarded as an expert on The Beach Boys' ""Smile"" album, having written two books on the subject, ""Look! Listen! Smile! Vibrate!"" and ""Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece"". In 2011, he contributed to the liner notes of ""The Smile"
"Make Me Smile ""Make Me Smile"" is a song written by James Pankow for the rock band Chicago with the band's guitarist, Terry Kath, on lead vocals. Part 1 of Pankow's 7-part ""Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon"" song cycle/suite, it was recorded for their second album, ""Chicago"" (often called ""Chicago II""), which was released in 1970. The song ""Now More Than Ever"", a separate track from the same song suite, serves as a reprise of the song and appears edited together with it on many later versions, including a single edit, on several greatest hits collections, and in many"
"and Robert White, among others Smilin' Through (song) ""Smilin' Through"" is a popular ballad with lyrics and music by Arthur A. Penn. The song ""Smilin' Through"" was first published in 1919 by M. Witmark and Sons and Reinald Werrenrath had a very successful recording of it that year. <br> It was recorded by many singers, including John McCormack, Eleanor Steber, Nelson Eddy, and Judy Garland, and remained a popular standard for decades. Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1956 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the CD ""On the Sentimental Side"" (2010). Penn's song"
"poet William Blake. Thematic links to ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience"" by concept of childhood and spirituality carry throughout other songs and tracks. However, the piece ""My Heart Leaps Up"" by William Wordsworth originated the idiom """"Child Is Father of the Man"""" later recycled by Wilson and Parks. Other general ""Smile"" themes have been recited by ""Smile"" visual artist Frank Holmes to have included ""travel, nature, history, communications, love stories, virtue, betrayal, bucolic splendor, astrology, [and] mystery"". ""Smile"" drew heavily on American popular music of the past; Wilson's original compositions were interwoven with snippets of significant songs of yesteryear"
"Mona Lisa Smile Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The title is a reference to the ""Mona Lisa"", the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and the song of the same name, originally performed by Nat King Cole, which was covered by Seal for the movie. Julia Roberts received a record $25 million for her performance, the highest ever earned by"
"Natalie Cole Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, voice actress, songwriter, and actress. Cole is daughter of the acclaimed and pioneering American singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole. She rose to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits ""This Will Be"", ""Inseparable"" (1975), and ""Our Love"" (1977). Cole re-emerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album ""Everlasting"" and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's ""Pink Cadillac"". In the 1990s, she re-recorded standards by her father, resulting in her biggest success, ""Unforgettable... with Love"", which sold over"
"The Nat King Cole Story The Nat King Cole Story is a 1961 album by Nat King Cole. The album was a retrospective of Cole's recording career, designed to present many of his earlier hits in new recordings featuring stereo sound. Cole is accompanied on the re-recordings by many of the notable arrangers and bands that had appeared with him on the original records. Of particular note is Cole's re-recording of ""The Christmas Song"". This was Cole's fourth, and final, recording of the song, and also the first version recorded in stereo. This recording of the song was subsequently added"
"Sara Smile ""Sara Smile"" is a song written and recorded by the American musical duo Hall & Oates. It was released on January 31, 1976 as the second single from their album ""Daryl Hall & John Oates"". The song was the group's first Top 10 hit in the US, reaching number four on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""Sara Smile"" was the second single released from Hall & Oates' 1975 self-titled album for RCA Records. Cowritten by both halves of the duo, it was Hall & Oates's breakthrough single, with a #4 peak on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 charts in 1976."
"Smile"", which again pronounces the importance of smiling, though in a much lighter and cheerful tone. The lyrics were likely influenced by the song ""There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow"", written by the Sherman Brothers for Disney's Carousel of Progress attraction for the 1964 New York World's Fair. They have very similar themes, stressing the importance of looking forward optimistically to a shining future, and in some places use almost identical lyrical phrases (compare ""just a dream away"" and ""only a day away,"" for example). Grace Jones recorded a disco version of the song on her debut album ""Portfolio"", in"
"Smilin' Through (song) ""Smilin' Through"" is a popular ballad with lyrics and music by Arthur A. Penn. The song ""Smilin' Through"" was first published in 1919 by M. Witmark and Sons and Reinald Werrenrath had a very successful recording of it that year. <br> It was recorded by many singers, including John McCormack, Eleanor Steber, Nelson Eddy, and Judy Garland, and remained a popular standard for decades. Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1956 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the CD ""On the Sentimental Side"" (2010). Penn's song was also closely associated with"
"""You Are Not Alone (Classic Club Mix)"" Written and composed by R. Kelly ""Money (Fire Island Radio Edit)"" Written, composed, and produced by Michael Jackson ""HIStory (Tony Moran's HIStory Lesson)"" Written and composed by Michael Jackson, James Harris III and Terry Lewis Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix is a remix album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on May 20, 1997 by Epic Records, and is the second album released by Jackson's own record label, MJJ Productions. The album is made up of eight"
"the 1919 play ""Smilin' Through"" by Jane Cowl. The creation of the song and that of the play were independent but intertwined. According to Isidore Witmark in his history of the Witmark and Sons publishing house, Cowl's play was partially rewritten after the song was published, based upon the imagery of the lyrics. Both the title and music of the song were incorporated into the play when it was completed and produced on Broadway in December, 1919. The melody was also used to accompany the 1922 silent film. The soundtracks for both the 1932 and 1941 MGM films of ""Smilin'"
"Smile (R5 song) ""Smile"" is a song by American pop rock band R5. It had its radio premiere on November 14, 2014 as the lead single from their second studio album, ""Sometime Last Night"". The song was written by Leah Haywood, Daniel James, Brian Lee and Matt Thiessen and produced by Dreamlab and Randall Bobbitt. The band's frontman, Ross Lynch, told Teen Magazine that the song was about ""doing ridiculous things in order to make someone else smile"" and ""the simplicity of just happiness."" ""Smile"" has a length of three minutes and twenty one seconds and sonically, ""classic rock and"
"later covered by singer Michael Jackson and released as the first single from his 1973 album ""Music & Me"". The song peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, number 14 on the US R&B chart, and number 23 on the US adult contemporary chart. Nearly all disc pressings of the Michael Jackson single had a track called ""Morning Glow"", the ninth track on the album originally written by composer Stephen Schwartz. In a 2003 interview with Martin Bashir, Jackson admitted that he no longer remembered having recorded the song, and could not recall any of the lyrics."
"stage. The Flemion brothers also appeared on The Smashing Pumpkins' ""Tonight, Tonight"" single, and sang backing vocals on 1998's ""Adore."" In 1995, Pearl Jam included The Frogs' cover of ""Rearviewmirror"" (credited to all members of Pearl Jam, but largely written by lead singer Eddie Vedder) as the b-side to their ""Immortality"" single. The following year, Pearl Jam released a song called ""Smile"" on their ""No Code"" album. According to a story that Vedder told while performing in Milwaukee in 2006, the lyrics of ""Smile"" were taken directly from a note that Dennis Flemion hid inside Vedder's notebook when Vedder was"
"decided to end the program. The last episode aired on December 17, 1957. Commenting on the lack of sponsorship, Cole said shortly after its demise, ""Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark."" Throughout the 1950s, Cole continued to record hits that sold millions throughout the world, such as ""Smile"", ""Pretend"", ""A Blossom Fell"", and ""If I May"". His pop hits were collaborations with Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, and Ralph Carmichael. Riddle arranged several of Cole's 1950s albums, including ""Nat King Cole Sings for Two in Love"" (1953), his first 10-inch LP. In 1955, ""Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup"" reached number"
"presented to Al Green and Lyle Lovett at the 37th Grammy Awards (1995) for the song ""Funny How Time Slips Away"". According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award was presented to artists that performed ""newly recorded collaborative pop performances"" that ""do not normally perform together."" In 1997, the father and daughter duo consisting of Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole won the award for ""When I Fall in Love"", a duet remake of one of his signature hits. There have been five instances in which an artist was nominated for more than one song"
"of the ""Smile"" sessions are also dramatized in the 2014 Wilson biopic ""Love and Mercy"", featuring Paul Dano as Brian Wilson and Max Schneider as Van Dyke Parks. The 1993 science fiction novel ""Glimpses"" by Lewis Shiner contains a chapter in which the protagonist travels back in time to November 1966 and helps Wilson complete ""Smile"". References to ""Smile"", its bootlegs, and the Beach Boys are made in the 2006 novel ""Eat the Document"" by Dana Spiotta. Smile (The Beach Boys album) Smile (stylized as SMiLE) is an unfinished album by American rock band the Beach Boys that was projected"
"See You Smile"" and ""Where the Green Grass Grows"", as well as the #2-peaking ""One of These Days"" (originally recorded by Marcus Hummon on his 1995 album ""All in Good Time"") and ""For a Little While"". Both ""It's Your Love"" and ""Just to See You Smile"" were declared as number one country hits of the year by ""Billboard"", for 1997 and 1998 respectively. ""You Turn Me On"" also entered the lower regions of the country charts from unsolicited airplay. ""You Just Get Better All the Time"" was previously recorded by Tony Joe White on his 1983 album ""Dangerous"" and by"
"the rarest and most collectible of all Jackson's releases. James Hunter of ""Rolling Stone"" wrote a negative review: ""the climactic version of Charlie Chaplin's ""Smile"" has zero point of view on itself; its blend of rampaging ego and static orchestral pop is a Streisand-size mistake."" ""Entertainment Weekly"" called this version of the song a ""destined-for-Disney rendition."" In 2009 at Jackson's memorial, his brother Jermaine Jackson sang a version of the song in Michael's honor. CD maxi single 12"" maxi single Promotional single Promotional CD single Smile (Charlie Chaplin song) ""Smile"" is a song based on an instrumental theme used in"
"musician and songwriter Van Dyke Parks to collaborate as lyricist for the Beach Boys' next album project, soon titled ""Smile"", to which Parks agreed. Wilson and Parks intended ""Smile"" to be a continuous suite of songs that were linked both thematically and musically, with the main songs being linked together by small vocal pieces and instrumental segments that elaborated upon the musical themes of the major songs. It was explicitly American in style and subject, a conscious reaction to the overwhelming British dominance of popular music at the time. Some of the music incorporated chanting, cowboy songs, explorations in Indian"
"logical choice to step into Michael Jackson's role. Sony Music spent $30 million to promote the album. Prior to the album's release, the music press were anticipating how well it would sell. One analyst for SoundScan expressed the opinion that the press were out of touch with the public when it came to Jackson; the public liked him, while the press did not. He believed that ""naysayers"" in the media would be left surprised with the commercial reception to the ""HIStory"" campaign. ""Smile"", ""This Time Around"" and ""D.S."" were released as promotional singles in 1995 and December 1997. Due to"
"of the album, which is vitally important... Once we choose songs that will be in a particular album, I'll sit with Bill Miller, my pianist, and find the proper key. Then I will meet with the orchestrator... Usually we wind up doing it the way the arranger feels it should be done, because he understands more than I do about it..."" Frank Sinatra holds the unique distinction of singing on the first ""Billboard"" #1 single, ""I'll Never Smile Again"" (1940) — which sold 900,000 copies — and had the first ever #1 album in the UK, ""Songs For Swingin' Lovers"""