"The Man of Destiny The Man of Destiny is an 1897 play by George Bernard Shaw, set in Italy during the early career of Napoleon. It was published as a part of ""Plays Pleasant"", which also included ""Arms and the Man"", ""Candida"" and ""You Never Can Tell."" Shaw titled the volume ""Plays Pleasant"" in order to contrast it with his first book of plays, ""Plays Unpleasant"". May 12, 1796, an inn at Tavazzano. After his victory at the Battle of Lodi, Napoleon eats his meal, works on his plans and talks with the innkeeper Giuseppe Grandi. A lieutenant arrives with"
"He also leads on ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"" (1968), a popular duet with Diana Ross and the Supremes, and on the Temptations' famous version of the Christmas classic ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"" (1968). In the Temptations, Kendricks was responsible for creating most of the group's vocal arrangements, and also served as wardrobe manager, including the now famous purple suits the group wore for one performance. Though Whitfield had chief responsibility for writing, Kendricks co-wrote and received credit for several Temptations songs apart from ""The Girl's Alright With Me"" including ""Isn't She Pretty"" (1961) and ""Don't Send Me Away"""
"The show starred Bob Wright, Kitty Carlisle, Joe Masiell, and Bernice Massi. This production added Porter numbers from other works, including the songs ""After You, Who?"" (""Gay Divorce""), ""Greek To You"" (""Greek To You""), ""It Must Be Fun To Be You"" (cut from ""Mexican Hayride""), ""Waltz Down The Aisle"" (""Ever Yours""), ""What A Fair Thing Is A Woman"" (cut from ""Can Can""), ""What Does Your Servant Dream About?"" (cut from ""Kiss Me, Kate""), and ""Who Knows?"" (""Rosalie""). May 26, 1991 was the opening night of ""You Never Know"" at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. The show was directed by"
"sellers: ""Kiss Me, Kate"" and ""South Pacific"", both recorded and released in 1949. Under the leadership of Columbia's Goddard Lieberson, the label's cast recordings came to define the genre. Columbia Masterworks produced the original cast recordings of such shows as ""The Pajama Game"", ""My Fair Lady"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""West Side Story"", """", and ""Camelot"". Lieberson also recorded important shows that had failed at the box office including ""Candide"" and ""Anyone Can Whistle"". In 1956, he recorded Frank Loesser's musical ""The Most Happy Fella"", which had so much music that it had to be released as a 3-LP set,"
"say the old folks, 'it goes to show you never can tell.'"" The melody was influenced by Mitchell Torok's 1953 hit ""Caribbean."" The song briefly became popular again after the 1994 release of the film ""Pulp Fiction"", directed and co-written by Quentin Tarantino. The music was played for a ""Twist contest"" in which Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) competed (and were the only contestants shown in the film). The music added an evocative element of sound to the narrative and Tarantino said that the song's lyrics of ""Pierre"" and ""Mademoiselle"" gave the scene a ""uniquely '50s"
"recordings. He had Top 20 popular music hits with Constellation with the songs ""Just Be True"" (1964) and ""Nothing Can Stop Me"" (1965), both songs written by Curtis Mayfield and produced by Carl Davis. Other successes included ""What Now"", ""Rainbow"", ""I Fooled You This Time"", ""Think Nothing About It""', ""A Man's Temptation"", ""To Be a Lover"", ""Rainbow '65"" (recorded live at Chicago's Regal Theater), ""Bless Our Love"", and ""You Can't Hurt Me No More."" Chandler also had success with his cover version of James Brown's ""There Was A Time"" and ""You Threw A Lucky Punch"", which was released as an"
"of Boggess. On 26 January 2010 the title song ""Love Never Dies"" was first publicly performed at ""The South Bank Show Awards"", sung by Sierra Boggess and accompanied by Lloyd Webber and Louise Hunt on two grand pianos. The show was broadcast on ITV1 on 31 January 2010. The tune is identical to Lloyd Webber's other musical numbers ""Our Kind of Love"" from ""The Beautiful Game"" in 2000 and ""The Heart is Slow to Learn"", which was intended for a ""Phantom"" sequel, sung by Kiri Te Kanawa in 1998 at the ""Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration"". ""Love"
"from ""Petula"": the Les Reed/Barry Mason composition ""Kiss Me Goodbye"" had reached #15 US in April 1968, becoming the first hit single for Clark produced but not written by Hatch. Of the eleven additional tracks which would comprise ""Petula"", seven were written by Hatch and Jackie Trent. Hatch also had Clark cover ""Days"", ""The Good Life"" and ""This Girl's in Love with You"" and recorded Clark singing ""Why Can't I Cry"" which had been written by arranger Johnny Harris and wife Kim Clark. The song was also recorded by Tom Jones. The Hatch/Trent composition ""Don't Give Up"" - described by"
"Lucky Can You Get"" being a bonus track. Due to her contract with Ray Stark, Streisand was required to reprise her role as Fanny Brice in the sequel to ""Funny Girl"" (1968), which became ""Funny Lady"". Accompanying the 1975 film was the official soundtrack and one of the first records to be released by Arista Records, a new label created by record producer Clive Davis. Davis later revealed in his autobiographical book, ""The Soundtrack of My Life"", that Streisand was the perfect singer for the soundtrack as she was ""the top female singer-actress in the world"" and would likely be"
"has observed in his life, such as substitute teaching, 1970s FM radio disc jockeys, late-night delis, and annoying commercials (e.g., Geritol). He also performed two songs that he wrote himself: ""Fabulous '50s"" and ""Middle Class, Educated Blues."" His next album, ""Mind Over Matter"" (1974), included extensive discussion of the Watergate scandal and another song—the title track—about a kid who turned to humor to become popular. His follow-up album, ""New Teeth"" (1975, Epic/CBS Records), featured the comedian's on-stage work on tracks such as ""Mother Isn't Always Right"" and his transposition of George Carlin's ""Seven Words You Can't Say On Television"", titled"
"not-so secret weapons on an album that pinwheels between gentlemanly country-blues (Cindy, I'll Marry You Some Day), spooky lo-fi (Silver Rider) and charming '60s pop (You Can't Buy My Love)."" The album was nominated for two Grammy Awards, including Best Americana Album and the song ""Silver Rider"" for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance. Frontman and vocalist Robert Plant was nominated for best British Male Solo Artist at the Brit Awards 2011 Band of Joy (album) Band of Joy is English rock singer Robert Plant's ninth solo album and the first with his new band, the Band of Joy. It was"
"Trio (Antonio, Carlos, Louisa): Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast 21. Song (Don Jerome): O, the days when I was young 22. Air (Ferdinand): Ah! Cruel maid, how hast thou chang'd 23. Recit. Accomp. & Air (Ferdinand): Shall not my soul?/Sharp is the woe 24. Air (Clara): By him we love offended 25. Song (Antonio): How oft, Louisa, hast thou told 26. Air (Clara): Adieu, thou dreary pile 27. Glee and Chorus (Father Paul, Francis, Augustine, and Friars): This bottle's the sun of our table 28. Duet (Louisa and Clara): Turn thee round, I pray thee 29. Chorus: Oft"
"The Temptations), including ""Wedding Bell Blues"" (The 5th Dimension), ""If You Don't Know Me by Now"" (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes), ""Bad Moon Rising"" (Creedence Clearwater Revival), ""Good Lovin'"" (The Rascals), and ""Saturday in the Park"" (Chicago). When Vada gets upset, she plugs her ears and sings ""Do Wah Diddy Diddy"", the Manfred Mann version of which is also included on the soundtrack album. In addition, Vada and Thomas J. play ""The Name Game"" and sing ""Witch Doctor"" in the film, and Vada has posters of the Broadway Musical ""Hair"", The Carpenters, and Donny Osmond on her bedroom wall."
"and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll; and each of those records has earned a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. King's other well-known songs include ""Don't Play That Song (You Lied)"", ""Amor"", ""Seven Letters"", ""How Can I Forget"", ""On the Horizon"", ""Young Boy Blues"", ""First Taste of Love"", ""Here Comes the Night"", ""Ecstasy"", and ""That's When It Hurts"". In the summer of 1963, King had a Top 30 hit with ""I (Who Have Nothing)"", which reached the Top 10 on New York's radio station, WMCA. King's records continued to place well on the ""Billboard"" Hot"
"& the Pips); ""You Got to Earn It"", and ""I Gotta Find A Way (To Get You Back)"" (performed by the Temptations); and ""My Weakness Is You"" and ""I Want My Baby Back"" (performed by Edwin Starr); Grant also co-wrote ""I'm More Than Happy (I'm Satisfied)"" for Stevie Wonder, and ""Love and Affection"" for Marvin Gaye. With the Temptations he had a chance to play to fans in the Pacific, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. They were guests at the White House courtesy of President Richard Nixon. Grant also met Martin Luther King, Tricia Nixon Eisenhower, Jesse"
"the ""My Fair Lady"" album financed many of Columbia's subsequent original cast and classical recordings. The label recorded Frank Loesser's near sung-through musical ""The Most Happy Fella"", virtually complete and issued it as a 3-record set as well as a single Lp of highlights. Lieberson made sure that important scores were recorded even if the shows were not box office successes. Thanks to his foresight the original casts of ""Candide"", ""Anyone Can Whistle"", and ""Goldilocks"" are preserved. Columbia recorded as many hits as they did flops - ""Gypsy"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""Bye Bye Birdie"", ""Camelot"", ""Sweet Charity"", ""Mame"", ""1776"","
"Chaplin ""My Kinda Music"" Lyrics by Sammy Cahn<br> Music by Saul Chaplin ""You'll Never Get Rich""<br> Lyrics by Sammy Cahn<br> Music by Saul Chaplin<br> Performed by Eddie Foy Jr. ""Mother Never Told Me""<br> Lyrics by Sammy Cahn <br> Music by Saul Chaplin<br> Sung by Ruth Terry ""Rookies on Parade""<br> Music by Jule Styne<br> Lyrics by Eddie Cherkose ""Chula Chi Hua Hua""<br> Written by Jule Styne, Sidney Clare and Nick Castle ""Londonderry Air""<br> Traditional<br> Music Arranged by Jule Styne<br> New Lyrics by Sidney D. Mitchell ""Rookies on Parade"" was released in theatres April 17, 1941. Rookies on Parade Rookies on Parade"
"On an episode of the BBC comedy game show ""Never Mind the Buzzcocks"", the Coldplay song ""Violet Hill"" was used in a segment, and when regular panellist Noel Fielding said that he ""genuinely hated Coldplay,"" host David Tennant then played a snippet of ""Fix You"" and mouthed the line """"And I will try...to fix you."""" Comedian Catherine Tate also finished the lyrics of the chorus correctly in a different segment of the same episode. The song was also played at the wedding of the Swedish prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist on 13 June 2015, performed by Salem al Fakir."
"highest debut according to the official list compiled by ""RPM"". It eventually reached number 19 in its fourth week charting (and was also its peak position). How Lucky Can You Get ""How Lucky Can You Get"" is a song recorded by American vocalist Barbra Streisand for the official soundtrack to the 1975 film ""Funny Lady"". It was released as a 7"" single in April 1975 through Arista Records. The song was written by Fred Ebb and John Kander, while production was handled by Peter Matz. ""How Lucky Can You Get"" is one of the new songs on the soundtrack, with"
"You Will. Productions for the National Theatre include: A Little Night Music, Marat Sade, Private Lives, Inadmissible Evidence, Uncle Vanya, Somewhere, Once In A While The Odd Thing Happens, Rose, Les Parents Terribles and The American Clock. West End design credits include: Waiting For Godot, Design For Living, Relative Values, The Lion In Winter, The Tempest, Flare Path, An Ideal Husband, Ghosts, Acorn Antiques The Musical, Dirty Dancing, Stephen Fry's Cinderella, Arsenic And Old Lace, Mahler's Conversion, Our Song, Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell and Mrs. Klein. International credits include: Waiting For Godot/ No Man's Land, Indiscretions and Rose(Broadway), Julius Caesar"
"Play"", ""Building on a Strong Foundation"" and ""Give It Up Girl"". They also contributed to the track ""Mama Never Told Me"" with Tracie Young as Tracie & The Questions. Many tours, TV appearances and singles followed, including ""Work and Play"", ""Tear Soup"" and ""Price You Pay"". In 1983, band members Paul Barry and John Robinson penned the Top 10 hit ""The House That Jack Built"" for fellow Respond Records label mate Tracie Young. They would go on to write three additional songs - ""I Can't Hold on Till Summer"", ""Moving Together"" and ""What Did I Hear You Say"" - for"
"to these lyrics as ironic and claimed that the music that accompanies the aforementioned four lines was borrowed from Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera, ""La bohème"". Perhaps the most recognizable song from ""Funny Lady"", ""How Lucky Can You Get"" received positive reviews from music critics. Author Leve recalled that the song ""exemplifie[d] Kander and Ebb's approach to musical theater"", referring to its use in the film. During the segment of ""Funny Lady"" where Streisand is shown performing the song, author David Craig wrote that she ""sings it in the simplest possible performance"" but does not need any ""pizzazz to corroborate its"
"several songwriting hits for artists like Doctor Hook and Johnny Cash. Their collaboration grew into a friendship that would last for the next 25 years. On one two-week trip together to Santa Cruz, California they wrote a dozen songs like ""Don’t Knock The Music (You Were Made To)"" and ""Lovely Margarita,"" which features a transvestite strip tease artist unveiling the ""secrets of an ancient world's delight."" Other encounters produced ""Little Green Buttons,"" which introduces listeners to a woman saving a dying marriage with carefully placed tattoos, and ""The Happy Caucasian,"" which chronicles a modern-day Johnny Appleseed who spreads joy and"
"Should Have Said"" (U.S. #23) (1967); ""Midnight Confessions"" (U.S. #5, their biggest hit) (1968); ""Bella Linda"" (a cover of an Italian hit by Lucio Battisti, ""Balla Linda"") (U.S. #28), ""Lovin' Things"" (a cover of a UK hit by Marmalade the previous year) (U.S. #49), ""The River Is Wide"" (U.S. #31), ""I'd Wait a Million Years"" (U.S. #15), and ""Heaven Knows"" (U.S. #24) (1969); ""Walking Through the Country"" (U.S. #44), and ""Baby Hold On"" (U.S. #35) (1970); ""Temptation Eyes"" (#15), ""Sooner or Later"" (U.S. #9), and ""Two Divided by Love"" (U.S. #16) (1971); ""Glory Bound"" (U.S. #34) and ""The Runway"" (U.S."
"Guilty Pleasures (Barbra Streisand album) Guilty Pleasures is an album by Barbra Streisand in conjunction with Barry Gibb released in September 2005. In Ireland and the United Kingdom, the album is titled Guilty Too. It is the follow-up to Streisand's 1980 album, ""Guilty"", which also featured Barry Gibb. The album features a cover of Gibb's late brother Andy's song ""(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away"". In the United States the album peaked at no. 5 and has been certified Gold (500,000 copies sold) continuing Streisand's record of achieving the most gold and platinum records for a female artist, and"
"""Your Show of Shows"", starring Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca and Carl Reiner. They wrote the Broadway stage scores for ""Mr. Wonderful"" and ""Catch a Star"". He joined ASCAP in 1956, his other popular-song compositions include ""Without You I'm Nothing"", ""Raining, It's Raining"", ""Too Close for Comfort"" and ""The Story of Alice"" which was recorded by the Chad Mitchell Trio. His play ""Before You Go"" began on Broadway and has been produced in regional theaters in the United Kingdom, Paris, Sweden, and Mexico City. His musical play ""I Don't Live There Anymore"", written with composer Gerard Kenny, received its American premiere"
"released before the show's December 1968 Broadway opening, ""I'll Never Fall in Love Again,"" a hit for Warwick in the US and Canada (No. 6 and No. 1, respectively) and for Bobbie Gentry in the UK (No. 1), ""Knowing When To Leave"" (also recorded by Warwick), ""She Likes Basketball"" and ""Turkey Lurkey Time,"" a dance number featuring McKechnie, Lee and Sappington. Warwick also recorded ""Whoever You Are (I Love You)"" and ""Wanting Things"" in 1968 before the show opened for her Scepter LP ""Promises, Promises."" ""Christmas Day"" was recorded by Johnny Mathis for his third Christmas album ""Give Me Your"
"once that if you want to be the best, you must never let anyone, anyone, know what you really feel. You see, she told me, they can't hurt you if they don't know. Concerning the qualities of a champion tennis player, King said, King's friend Elton John wrote the song “Philadelphia Freedom”, a nod to her World TeamTennis team, for King. Released New Year's Day 1975, became a number 1 hit. Charles M. Schulz, creator of the ""Peanuts"" comic strip, was an admirer and close friend. Schulz referred to King several times in ""Peanuts"" and used the comic strip to"
"lullaby 'The Jockey on the Carousel,' and the entrancing title song."" Also with Fields, he wrote two new songs, ""I Won't Dance"" and ""Lovely to Look At"", for the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film version of ""Roberta"" (1935), which was a hit. The show also included the song ""I'll Be Hard to Handle"". This was given a 1952 remake called ""Lovely to Look At"". Their next film, ""Swing Time"" (1936) included the song ""The Way You Look Tonight"", which won the Academy Award in 1936 for the best song. Other songs in ""Swing Time"" include ""A Fine Romance"", ""Pick"
"catalogue, those well-known (""Maria"" from ""West Side Story"", ""There But For You Go I"" from Lerner & Loewe's ""Brigadoon"", ""The Cafe Song"" from ""Les Misérables"", ""Johanna"" from Stephen Sondheim's """"), rare (""Love Song"" from Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's ""Love Life"", ""It Must Be So"" from Leonard Bernstein's ""Candide"", and ""Silly People"", which was cut from Sondheim's ""A Little Night Music""), and those in-between (""Finishing the Hat"" from ""Sunday in the Park with George"", ""You Do Something to Me"" from Cole Porter's ""Fifty Million Frenchmen"", ""Never Will I Marry"" from Frank Loesser's ""Greenwillow""). He has directed stage presentations of"
"always wore a shirt that said ""Pleasure Island"" and decided to name a song ""Pleasure Ryland"" But then Saporta said that after they went over the songs on the album, they thought that it was kind of a bad idea that two of their songs had ""pleasure"" in them. Blackinton rebuffed him by saying that pleasure is a good thing. Blackinton plays a humorous street musician in the 2008 feature film The Unidentified, directed by Kevan Tucker of Floodgate Features. In that scene, he is seen playing guitar to the song ""June"" by This Is Ivy League. Blackinton also co-stars"
"– Tease (songwriting on various songs)<br> 1988 : Remember – Tease (songwriting on various songs including the title track)<br> 1988 : Heavy Nova – Robert Palmer (keyboards on Simply Irresistible)<br> 1990 : The Right Stuff – Vanessa Williams (producer on six songs 1984: Fine Fine Fella – Patti Austin (keyboards)<br> 1985 : If Your Heart Isn’t In It – Atlantic Starr (keyboards)<br> 1985 : You Never Know When You’re Gonna Fall in Love – The Isley Brothers (songwriter)<br> 1989 : You Only Come Out at Night – George Howard (keyboards/producer/songwriter)<br> 1989 : All of My Love – The Gap Band"
"Clint Ballard Jr. Clinton Conger Ballard Jr. (May 24, 1931 – December 23, 2008) was an American songwriter. He wrote two ""Billboard"" Hot 100 number one hits. The first was ""Game of Love"" by Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders in 1965. The second was the 1975 hit, ""You're No Good"" by Linda Ronstadt (first sung by Dee Dee Warwick, later covered by Van Halen). He wrote two UK No.1 singles, recorded by Jimmy Jones (""Good Timin'"", 1960) and The Hollies (""I'm Alive"", 1965). When Ballard was three years old, he played the piano for KTSM, an El Paso radio station."