What 1956 film was to be called The Reno Brothers when a hit song passing the one million sales mark was noticed by the producers causing a change in the title?
"Love Me Tender (film) Love Me Tender is a 1956 American black-and-white CinemaScope motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb, and released by 20th Century Fox on November 15, 1956. The film, named after the song, stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget, and Elvis Presley in his acting debut. It is in the Western genre with musical numbers. As Presley's movie debut, it was the only time in his acting career that he did not receive top billing. ""Love Me Tender"" was originally to be titled ""The Reno Brothers"", but when advanced sales of Presley's ""Love Me Tender"" single passed one"
"book was drastically rewritten for a second film version, also by Paramount, released in 1956. This movie again starred Bing Crosby (whose character was renamed) and Donald O'Connor. The female leads were Zizi Jeanmaire and Mitzi Gaynor. The script departed significantly from the original story and was written by Sidney Sheldon. The lesser-known Porter songs were cut, and new songs, written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, were substituted. In 1954, Ethel Merman, at the age of forty-six, reprised her role as Reno in a specially adapted live television version of the musical, co-starring Frank Sinatra as the hero,"
"The studio, 20th Century Fox, originally wanted to call the movie ""The Reno Brothers"" but instead re-titled it ""Love Me Tender"" to capitalize on the song's popularity. Movie producer David Weisbart would not allow Presley's regular band (Scotty Moore, Bill Black, and D.J. Fontana) to play on the soundtrack. Instead, The Ken Darby Trio provided the musical backing with Red Robinson on drums, Charles Prescott on bass, Vita Mumolo on guitar, and Jon Dodson on background vocals, with Presley providing only lead vocals. The single debuted at #2 on the ""Best Sellers in Stores"" pop singles chart, the first time"
"York, hosted this time by its namesake, on October 28. After the performance, crowds in Nashville and St. Louis burned him in effigy. His first motion picture, ""Love Me Tender"", was released on November 21. Though he was not top billed, the film's original title—""The Reno Brothers""—was changed to capitalize on his latest number one record: ""Love Me Tender"" had hit the top of the charts earlier that month. To further take advantage of Presley's popularity, four musical numbers were added to what was originally a straight acting role. The film was panned by the critics but did very well"
"the less costly, less risky reissue business remained the company’s primary revenue stream. One exception was the success of ""At This Moment"" by Billy Vera & the Beaters, a 1981 song that went to the top of the U.S. ""Billboard"" charts in late 1986 after being featured in an episode of the hit NBC TV series ""Family Ties"". In 1985, Rhino signed a six-year distribution agreement with Capitol Records. During 1989 Rhino and Capitol’s parent EMI made a deal to jointly acquire Roulette Records; Rhino received the US rights to Roulette's catalog, excluding jazz. When the distribution deal with Capitol"
"to attend a sold out performance with 8,000 seats. Roads were clogged for seven hours. Film makers took advantage of the popularity of ""rhythm and blues"" musicians as ""rock n roll"" musicians beginning in 1956. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, the Treniers, the Platters, the Flamingos, all made it onto the big screen. Two Elvis Presley records made the R&B top five in 1957: ""Jailhouse Rock""/""Treat Me Nice"" at number one, and ""All Shook Up"" at number five, an unprecedented acceptance of a non-African American artist into a music category known for being created by blacks."
"as well as playing the role of Culver Robinson. Baer then had the idea of using the title of a popular song as a movie title, so he acquired the rights to Bobbie Gentry's hit song to produce the 1976 film ""Ode to Billy Joe"", which he also directed. Made for only US$1.1 million, it grossed $27 million at the box office, plus earnings in excess of US$2.65 million outside the US, US$4.75 million from television, and US$2.5 million from video. The film starred Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor. Since the success of ""Ode to Billy Joe"", the motion picture"
"the Beatles, but these performances did not help them gain sustained success in North America. Richard and the Shadows appeared in six feature films including a debut in the 1959 film ""Serious Charge"" but most notably in ""The Young Ones"", ""Summer Holiday"", ""Wonderful Life"", and ""Finders Keepers"". These films created their own genre, known as the ""Cliff Richard musical"", and led to Richard being named the No. 1 cinema box office attraction in Britain for both 1962 and 1963, beating that of even James Bond. The title song of ""The Young Ones"" became his biggest-selling single in the United Kingdom,"
"screenplay was written by ""longtime Beatles fan and Beatlefest attendee, Mark Stanfield."" The title of the film comes from the 1970 Beatles song ""Two of Us"". There was great public demand for a Beatles reunion during the 1970s. For example, in September 1976, American promoter Sid Bernstein, who had booked many of the Beatles' historic American appearances in 1964-1966, published a full-page ad in the ""New York Times"" publicly requesting the group to reunite and offering millions of dollars. On April 24, 1976, ""Saturday Night Live"" producer Lorne Michaels parodied such offers with an on-air announcement that he would pay"
"""At Last You Understand"". The single was picked up for national distribution by RCA Victor, and ""Runaround"" became a hit, peaking at #20 on the U.S. national charts. With their newfound fame, Randazzo became the lead singer and songwriter. They scored two further hits on the new Billboard charts: ""Times Two, I Love You"" (#67, 1955) and ""And the Angels Sing"" (#70, 1956). In 1956 the Three Chuckles performed the song ""Cinnamon Sinner"" in the movie The Girl Can't Help It. Also in 1956, Alan Freed offered them a spot in his movie ""Rock, Rock, Rock""; following this Randazzo left"
"single in 1960, reaching #47 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. The song ""Waltzing Matilda"" became popular everywhere, as a result of the film, with many folk singers recording their own versions, including Harry Belafonte, Jimmie Rodgers (who had recorded two different versions of the song), and Tim Morgan. The Seekers, who are from Australia, recorded this song several times. Nevil Shute was displeased with the final cut of the film, feeling that too many changes had been made at the expense of the story's integrity. After initial collaboration with Kramer, it was obvious that Shute's concerns were not being"
"stations ceased playing the single due to the macabre line: ""I shot a man in Reno/Just to watch him die"". Reeling in the success prior to the assassination, Columbia demanded Johnston remix the single with the line removed. Despite protests from Cash, the single was edited and re-released. The new version became a success, reaching number one on the country charts and the top forty on the national charts. The single prompted the album to climb the album charts, eventually reaching number one on the Top Country Albums chart and number thirteen on the Pop Albums chart—the forerunner to the"
"million—a first for a single—the film's title was changed to match. This was the only time that Presley played a historical figure. Presley plays Clint Reno, the youngest of the four Reno brothers, who stays home to take care of his mother and the family farm as older brothers Vance, Brett and Ray fight in the American Civil War for the Confederate Army. The family is mistakenly informed that eldest brother Vance has been killed on the battlefield. After four years of war, the brothers return home and find that Vance's former girlfriend Cathy has married Clint. Although Vance accepts"
"and NBC bought a season's worth of episodes. Screen Gems, the television wing of Columbia Pictures, had a music publishing department, with ties to some of the best songwriting talent in the US (including New York City's Brill Building songwriters), and were able to provide top-notch songs for the show, while Colgems Records was set up to issue records from ""The Monkees"" and other productions. When the Monkees became a hit in both television and popular music, Rafelson and Schneider in turn became famous. They used their success to achieve their initial goal of producing movies. The first, called ""Head"","
"changed its corporate name to First National Pictures, Inc. It built its studio lot in Burbank in 1926. The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America and the Independent Producers' Association declared war in 1925 on what they termed a common enemy—the ""film trust"" of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, and First National, which they claimed dominated the industry not only by producing and distributing motion pictures but also by entering into exhibition as well. The financial success of ""The Jazz Singer"" and ""The Singing Fool"" enabled Warner Bros. to purchase a majority interest in First National in September 1928. Warner Bros. held 42,000"
"in Spain under the title ""Tu Serás Mi Marido"" [literally You Will Be My Husband]. It is playable on Region A Blu-ray players in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Latin America. Academy Awards: The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The film features the million selling hit song ""Chattanooga Choo Choo"" which is a highlight and centerpiece of the movie. The RCA Victor 78 single reached no. 1 on the ""Billboard"" singles chart in 1941 and became the top record of that year. RCA Victor awarded Glenn Miler a Gold Record award for sales of 1.2"
"(for over a million US sales) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1969. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. It was placed in the National Recording Registry, a list of sound recordings that ""are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States"", in 2005. In June 1956, Holly, Allison and Sonny Curtis went to see the movie ""The Searchers"", starring John Wayne, in which Wayne repeatedly used the phrase ""that'll be the day"". This line of dialogue inspired the young musicians. The song was first recorded"
"in reference books as being a 1957 release, due to its December 1956 premiere). The film was an immediate follow-up to the earlier ""Rock Around the Clock"", which had also starred Haley and Freed. Although Haley and the Comets were the top-billed stars of the film, their role in it was relatively minor and the film failed to duplicate the box office success of its predecessor. Today it is notable for the performances of Bill Haley and His Comets and Little Richard and the appearance of Alan Freed, all members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The version"
"one million records, achieving gold disc status. The Sharps would go on to another name change to become The Rivingtons, achieving fame with the single ""Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow"". Unusually, ""Little Bitty Pretty One"" was released on three different-colored labels: purple, blue and maroon. The song appeared on the soundtracks to films or television dramas, such as ""Telling Lies in America"", ""Matilda"", ""Lipstick on Your Collar"", and ""Christine"". Harris had a second and final hit in 1958 with ""Do What You Did"", which reached the Top 20. His other best known song was ""Runk Bunk"", recorded in 1959, and released by Aladdin Records"
"James. ""I was in a Greensburg, P.A. club one night, and I walked up to a group that was playing that I thought was pretty good and asked them if they wanted to be the Shondells. They said yes, and off we went."" With a touring group to promote the single, James went to New York City, where he sold the master of ""Hanky Panky"" to Roulette Records, at which time he changed his last name to James. With national promotion, the single became a No. 1 hit in July 1966. Before long, Kessler and Pietropaoli were forced to leave"
"hits, they recorded songs for motion picture soundtracks, appeared in the 1965 film ""Beach Ball"", and endorsed dozens of products, at one point having their own brand of bread. By the end of 1966, their number-one hits included ""I Hear a Symphony"", ""You Can't Hurry Love"" and ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"". That year the group also released ""The Supremes A' Go-Go"", which on October 22 became the first album by an all-female group to reach number one on the US ""Billboard"" 200, knocking the Beatles' ""Revolver"" out of the top spot. Because the Supremes were popular with white audiences"
"agree to this, but the studio was happy to see the song released as a stand-alone single to promote the film. The song became a UK chart hit in 1960 and succeeded in publicising the film. The idea of a non-Asian playing the Peter Sellers role may now be considered in bad taste by some. A popular TV show ""Goodness Gracious Me"" was initially suggested as having the title ""Peter Sellers is Dead"" to identify that British Asian culture did not identify at all with this character. The Millionairess The Millionairess is a 1960 British romantic comedy film set in"
"A Million to One (film) A Million to One is a 1937 American drama film directed by Lynn Shores and written by John T. Neville. The film stars Bruce Bennett, Joan Fontaine, Reed Howes, Monte Blue, Kenneth Harlan and Suzanne Kaaren. The film was released on March 3, 1937, by Puritan Pictures. Bennett is billed as Herman Brix, which was his given name and the one he used as an athlete while competing in football and the 1928 Summer Olympics. After his father wins the Olympic decathlon but is disqualified for being judged a paid professional athlete rather than an"
"First National's top star since the brothers acquired the studio in 1928. Thanks to the success of ""The Jazz Singer"", the studio was cash-rich. Jolson's next film for the company, ""The Singing Fool"" was also a success. With the success of these first talkies (""The Jazz Singer"", ""Lights of New York"", ""The Singing Fool"" and ""The Terror""), Warner Bros. became a top studio and the brothers were now able to move out from the Poverty Row section of Hollywood, and acquire a much larger studio lot in Burbank. They expanded by acquiring the Stanley Corporation, a major theater chain. This"
"of respiratory heart failure), as a gospel group. After meeting Sam Cooke, they changed their name to The Valentinos and in 1961 began to sing and record ""the devil's music"" for secular audiences, to the horror of their religious father. The Valentinos had a hit record with ""Lookin' for a Love,"" selling two million copies, later becoming a no. 39 U.S. hit for The J. Geils Band in 1971. They toured with James Brown and scored another crossover hit with “It's All Over Now”, a song which subsequently reached no. 1 in the UK when covered by The Rolling Stones"
"on March 24, 1956. During the 1950s and into the 1960s, 45 rpm seven-inch single sales were considered the primary market for the recording industry, while albums were a secondary market. The careers of notable rock and roll performers such as Elvis Presley were driven primarily by single sales. Album sales reached its peak in English-language popular music from the mid 1960s to the mid 2000s (known as ""album era"") in which the album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption. In 1986, Dire Straits' ""Brothers in Arms"" became the first album in history to sell over"
"in 1969, the band discovered they were being mistaken for another English group named Earth. They decided to change their name again. A cinema across the street from the band's rehearsal room was showing the 1963 horror film ""Black Sabbath"" starring Boris Karloff and directed by Mario Bava. While watching people line up to see the film, Butler noted that it was ""strange that people spend so much money to see scary movies"". Following that, Osbourne and Butler wrote the lyrics for a song called ""Black Sabbath"", which was inspired by the work of horror and adventure-story writer Dennis Wheatley,"
"to feature most of the year's top 10 hits, although some of the year's most popular songs on a given album were not included for various reasons — most commonly, licensing restrictions. This would be most evident for several of Rhino's Billboard volumes covering the 1960s, where songs by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were not included. In such cases, other songs that were among the most popular of the year were substituted. For the 1955 track lineup, just one song topped the ""Billboard"" Best Sellers in Stores chart: ""Rock Around the Clock"" by Bill Haley & His Comets."
"first No. 1 hit. The Beatles later recorded a cover of it in 1965, with Ringo Starr as lead singer. Ringo Starr later re-recorded the song as a duet with Owens in 1988. The 1966 album ""Carnegie Hall Concert"" was a smash hit and further cemented Buck Owens and the Buckaroos as more than just another honky tonk country band. They achieved crossover success on to the pop charts. During that year, R&B singer Ray Charles released cover versions of two of Owens' songs that became pop hits: ""Crying Time"" and ""Together Again"". In 1967, Owens and the Buckaroos toured"
"greatly popularizing the so-called Spaghetti Western genre. For the American release, Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone decided to adopt American-sounding names, so they called themselves respectively Bob Robertson and Dan Savio. Over the film's theatrical release, it grossed more than any other Italian film up to that point. The film debuted in the United States in January 1967, where it grossed for the year. It eventually grossed $14.5 million in its American release, against its budget of 200–250,000. With the score of ""A Fistful of Dollars"", Morricone began his 20-year collaboration with his childhood friend Alessandro Alessandroni and his Cantori"
"the audience or camera. His late 1958 and early 1959 follow-up singles, ""High Class Baby"" and ""Livin' Lovin' Doll"", were followed by ""Mean Streak"", which carried a rocker's sense of speed and passion, and Lionel Bart's ""Living Doll"". It was on ""Living Doll"" that the Drifters began to back Richard on record. It was his fifth record and became his first No. 1 single. By that time, the group's line-up had changed with the arrival of Jet Harris, Tony Meehan, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch. The group was obliged to change its name to ""The Shadows"" after legal complications with"
"turned around by 1962 thanks to the Everly Brothers, Newhart, folk stars Peter, Paul & Mary, jazz and pop crossover hit Joanie Sommers and comedian Allan Sherman, and Warner Bros. Records ended the financial year 1961–62 in the black for the first time since its foundation. In August 1963, Warner Bros. made a ""rescue takeover"" of Frank Sinatra's ailing Reprise Records as part of a deal to acquire Sinatra's services as a recording artist and as an actor for Warner Bros. Pictures. The total deal was valued at around US$10 million and it gave Sinatra a one-third share in the"
"Another of Monogram's finds during this time was British skating star Belita, who conversely starred in musical revues first and then graduated to dramatic roles, including ""Suspense"" (1946), an A-budget King Brothers Productions picture released under the Monogram name. Monogram continued to experiment with series; some hit and some missed. Definite hits were Charlie Chan (which Monogram picked up after the series had been dropped by Twentieth Century Fox), The Cisco Kid, and Joe Palooka, all proven movie properties abandoned by other studios and revived by Monogram. Less successful were the comic-strip exploits of Snuffy Smith, the mysterious adventures of"