From which film, for which Chaplin wrote the music, did Petula Clark have a number one with 'This Is My Song'?
"These Are My Songs These Are My Songs is a 1967 album released by Petula Clark. In a break with longtime collaborator Tony Hatch, Clark joined forces with producer Sonny Burke and arranger/conductor Ernie Freeman for this release. The album includes two songs that were released as singles. ""This Is My Song"", with words and music by Charlie Chaplin, had been composed as an instrumental theme for his film ""A Countess From Hong Kong"". It peaked at #1 in the United Kingdom and #3 in the US. ""Don't Sleep In The Subway"", the only track written by Hatch and Jackie"
"23 October 1950 when shown a photograph of Jolson's tombstone. Ultimately, the song would be featured in the film only as an instrumental. After being disillusioned with regard to Jolson, Chaplin considered having ""This Is My Song"" recorded by Petula Clark, who had a home in Switzerland near his residence. Clark's husband and manager Claude Wolff—who at the time was with Clark in Reno, Nevada—received a copy of ""This Is My Song"" in September 1966, and liked the song which Clark felt had special potential for success in France. However, Clark's regular collaborator Tony Hatch was not impressed with the"
"was able to cover the budget. Critics such as Tim Hunter and Andrew Sarris, as well as poet John Betjeman and director François Truffaut, viewed the film as being among Chaplin's best works. Actor Jack Nicholson is also a big fan of the film. The film's theme music, written by Chaplin, became a worldwide hit song ""This Is My Song"" for Petula Clark reaching #1 in the UK, #3 in the United States, #4 in Canada, #1 for three weeks in Ireland, #1 for six weeks in Australia and reached the top of the Dutch charts for both the Netherlands"
"the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Italy and also Rhodesia, Japan and India. During a visit to London, Warner Bros. executive Joe Smith heard it and acquired the rights for the United States. ""Downtown"" went to No. 1 on the American charts in January 1965, and 3 million copies were sold in America. ""Downtown"" was the first of 15 consecutive Top 40 hits Clark achieved in the United States, including ""I Know a Place,"" ""My Love"" (her second U.S. No. 1 hit), ""A Sign of the Times,"" ""I Couldn't Live Without Your Love,"" ""This Is My Song"" (from the Charles Chaplin film"
"Heisst Mein Song"" (lyrics by Joachim Relin) and Italian as ""Cara Felicità"" (lyrics by Ciro Bertini). Clark did not even wish to record the song in English, because she disliked the deliberately old-fashioned lyrics, which Chaplin refused to modify; however, after the translated versions of the song had been recorded, some time remained on the session, and Burke coaxed Clark to use this to record Chaplin's lyrics. The recording session featured the backing of the Wrecking Crew. Clark had assumed her recording of ""This Is My Song"" with the original quaint Chaplin lyrics would only be used as an album"
"""Colour My World"", which was rush re-released with ""This Is My Song"" added on to reach no. 16 on the charts. ""This Is My Song"" was also included on Clark's next album: ""These Are My Songs"", which reached no. 38 UK later that year. ""This is My Song"" (in English) is one of four Petula Clark hits for which she has expressed dislike, the others being: ""Sailor"", a UK no. 1 hit; ""Monsieur"", a German language no. 1 hit which won a gold disc for sales in Germany alone ; and ""My Love"". Petula Clark's ""This Is My Song"" was"
"sang, every note of the orchestrations."" Clark would add that she herself ""really shouldn't have touched"" the song ""Black Coffee"". Burke also had Clark record ""Smile"", the signature composition by Charlie Chaplin, writer of ""This is My Song"" - ; the current Engelbert Humperdinck hit ""The Last Waltz""; the 1953 Frankie Laine hit ""Answer Me, My Love""; and the Lerner & Loewe showtune ""I Could Have Danced All Night"". Burke also produced the only French language track to be included on a non-Francophone album by Petula Clark: ""L'île de France"", which Clark herself wrote with lyricist Pierre Delanoë. With Burke's"
"Eternally (Charles Chaplin song) ""Eternally"" is a song with music by Charles Chaplin, and words by the English lyricists Geoff Parsons and John Turner. The music was initially composed for Charles Chaplin's film ""Limelight"" (1952) titled ""Terry's Theme""; the film won an Oscar for ""Best Original Dramatic Score"" at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973. ""Eternally"" was recorded by Jimmy Young (UK #8, 1953), Vic Damone (U.S. Pop #12, 1953), Li Xianglan (in Chinese and Japanese), Petula Clark (""These Are My Songs"", 1967), Bing Crosby (for his radio show), Dinah Shore, Steve Lawrence, Michel Legrand, Jerry Vale, Sarah Vaughan, Roger"
"song its UK chart peak would be #2: the second Petula Clark single to reach #1 in the UK Singles Chart would be ""This is My Song"" in 1967.<ref name=""Chartstats/Petula Clark""></ref> Both of Clark's UK #1 hits would compete with rival versions: ""Sailor"" would be a #10 hit for Anne Shelton <ref name=""Chartstats/Anne Shelton""></ref> while Harry Secombe's version of ""This is My Song"" would rise as high as #2.<ref name=""Chartstats/Harry Secombe""></ref> (The relevant recordings by both Shelton and Secombe have Wally Stott perform arranging and conducting duties.) <ref name=""RPM/Anne Shelton""></ref> Clark's ""Sailor"" became the third hit version of the song"
"Trent, who had written much of Clark's previous material, charted at #5 in the US and #12 in the UK. Hatch arranged and produced the song. ""These Are My Songs"" reached #27 on the album charts in the US where it was Clark's first album release to feature ""This Is My Song"". In the UK that track had been featured on Clark's ""Colour My World"" album which had been released concurrently with the ""This Is My Song"" single in February 1967 and had reached #16. The ""These Are My Songs"" album reached #38 on the UK charts. The tracks attributed"
"was strong enough to sustain two versions high on the chart. Secombe's version debuted at number 44 on 25 February 1967 (the second week Clark's version was number one) to rise as high as number two on the chart dated 1 April (which featured Clark's version at number eight). (Clark's previous UK #1 song, ""Sailor"", had also had a rival version, in that instance by Anne Shelton, which had reached the Top 10. Wally Stott, who'd regularly produced Clark for the Polygon label in the early 1950s, had also overseen the Shelton recording.) Secombe's version of ""This Is My Song"""
"The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener ""The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener"" is a song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent which was a 1967-68 hit for Petula Clark. After working exclusively with producer/songwriter Tony Hatch following their 1964 breakout collaboration ""Downtown"", Clark had had her most successful single ever in the spring of 1967 with ""This Is My Song"", a Charlie Chaplin composition recorded by Clark with producer Sonny Burke. The resultant ""These Are My Songs"" album was also produced by Burke with Hatch contributing only one track albeit the one selected as the follow-up single:"
"was included on the album ""Secombe's Personal Choice"", an April 1967 release whose chart peak of #6 in May 1967 bests that of both the Petula Clark albums which parented the song. Besides selling over 300,000 units in the UK, Secombe's version of ""This Is My Song"" also became a hit in Australia (#6), Ireland (#20) and South Africa (#15). Versions of ""This Is My Song"" have been recorded by Ronnie Aldrich, The Ray Charles Singers, Ray Conniff and the Singers (from the ""This Is My Song"" album/ 1967), Dada, James Darren, Percy Faith, Connie Francis (live version), Bobby Hendricks,"
"track; on learning of Pye Records' plan to release the track as a single she attempted to block its release. Instead, she found herself atop the UK Singles Chart for the first time in six years when ""This Is My Song"" reached no. 1 on the chart dated 16 February 1967, a position it retained the next week. Certified Silver for sales of 250,000, the total sales of ""This Is My Song"" in the UK would exceed 500,000. The breakout of ""This Is My Song"" in the UK in February 1967 caused Pye Records to withdraw Clark's current album release"
"Chaplin (film) Chaplin is a 1992 British-American biographical comedy-drama film about the life of British comedian Charlie Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller, and Kevin Kline. It also features Geraldine Chaplin in the role of her own paternal grandmother, Hannah Chaplin. The film was adapted by William Boyd, Bryan Forbes and William Goldman from the books ""My Autobiography"" by Chaplin and """" by film critic David Robinson. Associate producer Diana Hawkins got a story credit. The original music score was composed by John Barry. The"
"to Al Grant actually were written by Petula, who used the pseudonym for many of her compositions during the 1960s. For the first time, the same cover artwork as the original Warner Bros. release was used for versions of the album released worldwide by Pye Records and Disques Vogue. These Are My Songs These Are My Songs is a 1967 album released by Petula Clark. In a break with longtime collaborator Tony Hatch, Clark joined forces with producer Sonny Burke and arranger/conductor Ernie Freeman for this release. The album includes two songs that were released as singles. ""This Is My"
"The soundtrack to ""Chaplin"" was released on December 15, 1992. Chaplin (film) Chaplin is a 1992 British-American biographical comedy-drama film about the life of British comedian Charlie Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller, and Kevin Kline. It also features Geraldine Chaplin in the role of her own paternal grandmother, Hannah Chaplin. The film was adapted by William Boyd, Bryan Forbes and William Goldman from the books ""My Autobiography"" by Chaplin and """" by film critic David Robinson. Associate producer Diana Hawkins got a story credit."
"Whittaker, Engelbert Humperdinck (1973 and 2007), Victor Wood (1971), Amália Rodrigues, John Serry Sr. (""Squeeze Play"", 1956), Majida El Roumi Ghazal album 2012, among many others. Eternally (Charles Chaplin song) ""Eternally"" is a song with music by Charles Chaplin, and words by the English lyricists Geoff Parsons and John Turner. The music was initially composed for Charles Chaplin's film ""Limelight"" (1952) titled ""Terry's Theme""; the film won an Oscar for ""Best Original Dramatic Score"" at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973. ""Eternally"" was recorded by Jimmy Young (UK #8, 1953), Vic Damone (U.S. Pop #12, 1953), Li Xianglan (in Chinese"
"Colour My World (album) Colour My World is the sixth album released by Petula Clark in the US on Warner Bros. Records. It combines cover versions of popular songs of the era and original material, much of it written by Clark and Tony Hatch, who produced the recording and arranged it along with Johnny Harris and Frank Owens. In the UK, where it was released on Pye Records, the original album release was withdrawn after a month to have Clark's current hit ""This Is My Song"" and its UK B-side: ""The Show Is Over"", added to the track listing. This"
"version of ""This Is My Song"" in 1967, however the track was unreleased until 1995 when it was included on ""The Seekers - Complete"" box set. On the Seekers' ""Night of Nights...Live!"" release from 2002, ""This Is My Song"" follows ""Ten Thousand Years Ago"" - which only features the group's male members - to showcase Judith Durham as a solo vocalist. Foreign language covers of ""This Is My Song"" contemporary with the Petula Clark hit version include: the Czech rendering ""Obrať Se S Důvěrou"" recorded by Helena Blehárová (); the Dutch rendering ""Sjungas till sömns"" recorded by Lize Marke to"
"reached #1 with ""Downtown"" in 1965 plans for Clark to record an entire album with Koppelman/Rubin were scrapped and in September 1967 Clark reunited with the producer Sonny Burke, and also ""This is My Song"" arranger Ernie Freeman, to record the nucleus of her next album release at Western Studios (Los Angeles) with the Wrecking Crew session players. The tracks which Sonny Burke had Clark record included his own composition: ""Black Coffee"", which had helmed the iconic 1953 debut album by Peggy Lee: ""Black Coffee"", which Petula Clark would eventually describe as ""my Bible. I knew every note [Peggy Lee]"
"#23. Although Clark had become a fixture on the upper realms of the U.S. charts through her collaboration with writer/producer Tony Hatch on ""Downtown"", her UK singles chart success had been more hit-and-miss. The two singles before ""This Is My Song"", ""Who Am I?"" and ""Colour My World"", had failed to reach the UK Top 50. This made the strong UK showing of ""This Is My Song""—Clark's first single release since ""Downtown"" to be neither written nor produced by Hatch—the more remarkable. The follow-up single ""Don't Sleep in the Subway"" resumed the Clark/Hatch collaboration and was a UK hit (#12)"
"This Is My Night ""This Is My Night"" is a song by Chaka Khan from the album ""I Feel for You"". The song went to number one for one week on the ""Billboard"" dance chart in 1985. The single also peaked at #60 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and #11 on the R&B chart. ""This Is My Night"" was written by Mic Murphy and David Frank and produced by Arif Mardin. A variation of the song was used by HBO as its theme music for Next On bumpers and promos from May to November 1985 (as the centerpiece of the"
"The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener (album) The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener is the ninth album released by Petula Clark in the United States. It entered the ""Billboard"" 200 on February 17, 1968 and remained on the charts for 23 weeks, peaking at #93. It fared better in the United Kingdom, where it reached #37. After collaborating with producer/songwriter Tony Hatch on nine US Top 40 hits, Petula Clark had begun to work independently of Hatch in 1966 collaborating with Sonny Burke on ""This is My Song"" which would become Clark's most successful global hit in the"
"revised edition of the album - with the subtitle ""Including 'This Is My Song'"" - reached #16 on the UK album charts. In the USA, the album entitled Color My World/Who Am I entered the ""Billboard"" 200 on February 18, 1967 and remained on the charts for 27 weeks, peaking at #49. Colour My World (album) Colour My World is the sixth album released by Petula Clark in the US on Warner Bros. Records. It combines cover versions of popular songs of the era and original material, much of it written by Clark and Tony Hatch, who produced the recording"
"but, like all Clark's releases after ""This Is My Song"", would fail to return her to the UK Top Ten. Despite Clark's reservations about the English version of ""This is My Song"": The first recording of ""This Is My Song"" was made by Harry Secombe with Wally Stott responsible for arranging and conducting. Secombe himself found the lyrics risible; several takes were necessitated due to his bursting into laughter when he tried to sing the line: ""I care not what the world may say"". Despite the eventual UK release of Clark's version as a single, ""This Is My Song""'s appeal"
"have topped the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 include ""The Look of Love"" (1967), ""This Guy's in Love with You"" (1968), ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" (1969), ""(They Long to Be) Close to You"" (1970), ""Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"" (1981), ""That's What Friends Are For"" (1986) and ""On My Own"" (1986). A significant figure in easy listening, Bacharach is described by writer William Farina as ""a composer whose venerable name can be linked with just about every other prominent musical artist of his era."" In later years, his songs were newly appropriated for the soundtracks of major feature"
"Besides his work on album covers, Thrasher art-directed many of Warner Bros.' ads and posters from 1964 to 1979. In 1964, Warner Bros. successfully negotiated with French label Disques Vogue and Warner Bros.' British distributor Pye Records for the rights to distribute Petula Clark's recordings in the US (said rights were previously held by Laurie Records). Clark soon scored a #1 US hit with ""Downtown"" and she enjoyed consistent chart success in the US over the next four years with hits such as ""My Love"", ""I Know A Place"", ""I Couldn't Live Without Your Love"", ""This Is My Song"" and"
"""These Are My Songs"" album peaked at #27 in the U.S., becoming Clark's second—and final—US Top 30 album (""Downtown"" at #21 would remain Clark's top-ranking U.S. album). ""C'est Ma Chanson"" reached #1 in France and #3 on the chart for Belgium's French-speaking sector, also reaching #10 on Belgium's Dutch chart where the English version had hit #1; total sales of the French-language version were reported as 500,000. In Germany, the English version competed with the German-language version with the former more successful, reaching #16 while ""Love, So Heisst Mein Song"" peaked at #23. In Italy, the rendering ""Cara Felicità"" reached"
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"adaptations is the one by Charles Chaplin in his 1931 film ""City Lights"". The main theme used as a leitmotif for the blind flower-seller is the song ""La Violetera"" (""Who’ll Buy my Violets""). Chaplin was unable to secure the original song performer, Raquel Meller, in the lead role, but used her song anyway as a major theme. In 1934, Chaplin lost a lawsuit to Padilla (which took place in Paris, where Padilla then lived) for not crediting him. Some modern editions released for video include a new recording by Carl Davis. Sung in French by Dalida, it was released in"
"""Make the Magic Shine"" campaign). This Is My Night ""This Is My Night"" is a song by Chaka Khan from the album ""I Feel for You"". The song went to number one for one week on the ""Billboard"" dance chart in 1985. The single also peaked at #60 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and #11 on the R&B chart. ""This Is My Night"" was written by Mic Murphy and David Frank and produced by Arif Mardin. A variation of the song was used by HBO as its theme music for Next On bumpers and promos from May to November 1985"
"the theme from Charlie Chaplin's ""Limelight"" – ""Terry's Theme"" sung by easy listening singer Frank Chacksfield – reached number two, and in this month spent two weeks at this position (it later had more success throughout the Summer). There was also another theme song in the chart – Mantovani's version of ""The Song from Moulin Rouge"" – which reached number four this month, and again, had more success over the Summer. After 9 consecutive weeks at number one, Frankie Laine's ""I Believe"" fell to number 2, whilst the Eddie Fisher and Sally Sweetland song ""I'm Walking Behind You"" climbed three"