"the Band’ programme. The band also played a leading role in marking the 70th anniversary of the ‘Dambusters’ with a performance on BBC Radio 2’s ‘Friday Night is Music Night"". Alongside this broadcasting success, the musicians of the Band are well recognised for their recording prowess. Beginning in 1955 with the release of Eric Coates’ 'The Dambusters March' (HMV), the Central Band became the first military band to make a long-playing record and remains at the forefront of military band and contemporary wind ensemble recording. The critical and popular success of ""Reach for the Skies"" (Decca Records) and collaborative efforts"
"Riff Raff). The lyrics refer to science fiction and horror films of the past and list several film titles from the 1930s to the 1960s, including ""The Day the Earth Stood Still"" (1951), ""Flash Gordon"" (1936), ""The Invisible Man"" (1933), ""King Kong"" (1933), ""It Came from Outer Space"" (1953), ""Doctor X"" (1932), ""Forbidden Planet"" (1956), ""Tarantula"" (1955), ""The Day of the Triffids"" (1962), ""Curse of the Demon"" (1957), and ""When Worlds Collide"" (1951). The soundtrack was released in 1975 by Ode Records and produced by Richard Hartley. The album peaked at No. 49 on the ""Billboard"" 200 in 1978. It"
"made the top 20. Other highlights of their early career included singing their fourth single, ""The Green Leaves of Summer,"" from the John Wayne movie ""The Alamo"", at the 1961 Academy Awards, and having their third album, ""BMOC/Best Music On/Off Campus"", go top 10. They also recorded the title song for the Hollywood film ""Five Weeks in a Balloon"" in 1962 and the theme song for the ABC television series ""Hootenanny"", ""Hootenanny Saturday Night,"" in 1963. They also gave ""Sloop John B"" a try, released as ""The John B Sails"". The British Invasion and the ascendance of edgier folk rock"
"""Giant"", and ""The King and I"": Although not nominated for best original song, the film's theme song ""Around the World"" (music by Victor Young, words by Harold Adamson), became very popular. It was a hit for Bing Crosby in 1957, and was a staple of the easy-listening genre for many years: ""Around the world, I searched for you / I traveled on when hope was gone to keep a rendezvous ... No more will I go all around the world / For I have found my world in you."" It is also one of the few Best Picture winners not"
"by Chester Morris and Jerry Paris (later of ""The Dick Van Dyke Show""), among others. Others in the cast included Peggy Knudsen and Barbara Hale, who appeared as women visiting the prisoners. Jazz musician Dexter Gordon has a small, uncredited role in the film, that of a saxophone player in the prison jazz band. The film was shot at the correctional facility in Chino, California, where Gordon was then serving time for possession of heroin. The theme song ""Unchained Melody"" was written by Alex North and performed by Todd Duncan. This song became a #1 R&B hit in 1955 for"
"Friday (soundtrack) Friday is the soundtrack album for the 1995 comedy film, ""Friday"". It was released on April 11, 1995, on CD and cassette through Priority and consisted of hip Hop and R&B music. The soundtrack reached No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" 200, where it held the position for 2 weeks, and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for 6 weeks. It also spawned the successful Dr. Dre single ""Keep Their Heads Ringin'"", which made it to No. 10 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart. The album was certified Double Platinum by the"
"made an effort to help Rosie with substance abuse problems and drove her home from the Ambassador Hotel immediately after Robert Kennedy was assassinated. Thompson arranged Holiday in Europe for Bing Crosby and composed ""Moment in Madrid"" on that record. RCA also hired Thompson to arrange How the West Was Won which featured Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. Thompson composed the title theme for the motion picture ""The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond"" (1960) and scored the film ""Thumb Tripping"" (1972). He contributed arrangements for the films ""Picnic"" (1955), ""Seven Men from Now"" (1956; title theme), ""The Long Hot Summer"""
"Picnic"" was a hit song which reached number one on the 1956 ""Billboard"" charts and was number 14 overall that year. Composed by George Duning and Steve Allen (although Allen's lyrics were not used in the film), the song is featured in the famous dance scene between Holden and Novak, wherein Columbia's musical director Morris Stoloff blended ""Theme From Picnic"" with the 1930s standard ""Moonglow"". The two songs were often paired in later recordings by other artists. The soundtrack album reached number 23 on the ""Billboard"" charts. The Theme from Picnic was also a popular song recorded by the McGuire"
"a single made its first appearance at the #2 position. The song hit #1 on the ""Billboard"" charts the week ending November 3, 1956, remaining in the position for 5 weeks and reached no. 11 on the charts in the UK. ""Love Me Tender"" also reached number three for three weeks on the R&B chart. This version was ranked #437 on ""Rolling Stone""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 1968, Presley recorded a 52-second track entitled ""Violet (Flower of N.Y.U.)"" for the soundtrack of the film ""The Trouble with Girls"". Unreleased until after Presley's death, the"
"for more than 30 films in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He was nominated for the best Original Song Oscar nine times, winning twice, with ""Secret Love"" from ""Calamity Jane"" in 1954 and with ""Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"" from the movie of the same title in 1955. He co-wrote both songs with Paul Francis Webster, another long-time collaborator. Fain wrote the second theme to the TV series ""Wagon Train"" in 1958, which was called ""(Roll Along) Wagon Train"". He also contributed to the song scores for the Walt Disney animated films ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""Peter Pan"", and ""The Rescuers""."
"in the 1950s (""Morning Side of the Mountain""), a trio of songs from ""Doctor Dolittle"" (""At the Crossroads"", ""When I Look in Your Eyes"", and ""Where Are the Words""), and two songs that had lyrics added after originating as instrumentals: ""Drifting"" began as part of the score to the 1958 film ""Auntie Mame"", and ""Far Above Cayuga's Waters"" was ""a theme song of Cornell University before saxophonist Dave Pell retooled it and Sammy Cahn adapted the delightful fairytale-like lyrics."" One song from the album, ""Misty Roses"", spent two weeks at number 40 on ""Billboard"" magazine's list of the 40 most"
"Jacques Urbont Jacques (Jack) Urbont is a Daytime Emmy-winning and Primetime Emmy-nominated composer. Urbont is best known for composing the theme songs for The Marvel Super Heroes cartoon series. Urbont composed the music for the off-Broadway shows ""Livin' the Life"", ""All in Love"", and ""Stag Movie"". ""Livin' the Life"" premiered in 1957 and starred Francis Barnard and Alice Ghostley. ""All in Love"" premiered in 1961 and starred David Atkinson and Gaylea Byrne. ""Stag Movie"" premiered in 1971 and starred Hy Anzell and Adrienne Barbeau. Urbont wrote the original theme (""Autumn Breeze"") for General Hospital, which premiered in 1963. Urbont composed"
"title tune for Alfred Hitchcock's film, ""The Trouble with Harry"". In 1956, Pleis and His Orchestra again backed Karen Chandler, this time on her first Decca release, and Pleis released another album, ""Strings and Things"". The orchestra backed Bobby Darrin on his single ""Rock Island Line""/""Timber"". In October, Pleiss' song ""Giant"", theme of the film ""Giant"", debuted on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at #93, peaking at #91 in December, and the song ""I'll Always Be In Love With You"" charted at #65, also in December. Pleis also produced Bing Crosby's album, ""Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time"
"also recorded the song with its original English lyrics, and a German-language version, ""Sag, weißt du denn, was Liebe ist"". Here is a sample of the song's lyrics: In the film, charged romantic moments occur on a high grassy, windswept hill in Hong Kong. In the bittersweet final scene on the hilltop, the song (heard on the sound track) recalls the earlier encounters: The theme song won the Academy Award for Best Song, and the recording by The Four Aces went to #1 on the charts for three weeks in 1955, shortly before rock and roll became a dominant force"
"Rahman, the tracks ""Never Hear Surf Music Again"" by Free Blood, ""Lovely Day"" by Bill Withers, Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne No.2 in E flat, Op.9 No.2, ""Ça plane pour moi"" by Plastic Bertrand, ""If You Love Me"" by Esther Phillips, and ""Festival"" by Sigur Rós. The original theme song of the film, ""If I Rise"", is written by A. R. Rahman (music), Dido and Rollo Armstrong (lyrics) and performed by Dido along with Rahman. It was featured in the climax scene of the film. The film's subject Aron Ralston's favourite band, Phish, is mentioned in the film. During production, Boyle asked"
"of it being considered an underground genre. When ""Rock Around the Clock"" appeared as the theme song of the 1955 film ""Blackboard Jungle"" starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American ""Billboard"" chart for eight weeks. The single is commonly used as a convenient line of demarcation between the ""rock era"" and the music industry that preceded it. ""Billboard"" separated its statistical tabulations into 1890–1954 and 1955–present. After the record rose to number one, Haley was quickly given the title ""Father of Rock and Roll"" by the media, and by teenagers who had come to embrace the"
"song ""Blue Skies"", was featured in the first feature-length talkie, ""The Jazz Singer"", with Al Jolson. Later, movies like ""Top Hat"" (1935) became the first of a series of distinctive film musicals by Berlin starring performers like Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Ginger Rogers, and Alice Faye. ""Top Hat"" featured a brand new score, as did several more, including ""Follow the Fleet"" (1936), ""On the Avenue"" (1937), ""Carefree"" (1938), and ""Second Fiddle"" (1939). Starting with ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"" (1938), he often blended new songs with existing ones from his catalog. He continued this process with the films ""Holiday Inn"""
"successful scores for both ""Angel in the Wings"" (1947) and ""Hazel Flagg"" (1953). He also worked as lyricist of the film score for ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1951). This included providing the words to the theme song ""I'm Late"" and the unused Cheshire Cat song ""I'm Odd."" The 1954 comedy film ""Living It Up"" included his songs ""Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket"" and ""That's What I Like."" Hilliard had later success as co-composer of the 1960s classic ""Our Day Will Come."" The song was a No. 1 hit on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in 1963 for Ruby"
"he provided a series of successful scores for major British and American feature films, such as ""The Captain's Paradise"" (1953), ""The Sea Shall Not Have Them"" (1954), ""The Night My Number Came Up"" (1955), ""The Constant Husband"" (1955), ""I Am a Camera"" (1955), ""1984"" (1956), ""Trapeze"" (1956), ""A Hill in Korea"" (1956), ""Dunkirk"" (1958), ""The Key"" (1958) and ""The Roots of Heaven"" (1958). He also wrote the music for the entire series of St Trinian's films, including ""The Belles of St Trinian's"" (1954), which was a particular favourite with the composer. His 1960s scores included ""The Angry Silence"" (1960), ""Tunes"
"topped the Billboard magazine chart on February 25, 1956 and remained there for four weeks. The song became a gold record. Riddle then used the song for the theme music when he wrote the score for the 1956 film ""Lisbon."" ""Billboard"" ranked it as the No. 3 song for 1956. Also in 1956, another popular version was recorded by Frank Chacksfield's orchestra under the title ""In Old Lisbon"", in which the male chorus sang lyrics written in English by Harry Dupree. It was released by the United Kingdom Decca label as catalog number F 10689,and reached #15 on the UK"
"Records of New York City. When first released in May 1954, ""Rock Around the Clock"" made the charts for one week at number 23, and sold 75,000 copies. A year later it was featured in the film ""Blackboard Jungle"", and soon afterwards it was topping charts all over the world and opening up a new genre of entertainment. ""Rock Around the Clock"" hit No. 1, held that position for eight weeks, and was the number two song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 1955. The recording was, until the late 1990s, recognized by ""Guinness World Records"" as having the"
"""Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"" which reached #14 in 1955, and ""Sweet and Gentle,"" which also charted in 1955, at #10. The latter two recordings sold over one million copies each, and were awarded gold discs. Also in 1955. the singles ""I'm Sincere"" (the flip of ""Cherry Pink"") and ""Rockin The Cha-Cha"" reached the Music Vendor top 40. He became a friend of Alan Freed, and as a result got a chance to play a role as a rock and roll singer in the 1956 film, ""Don't Knock the Rock."" In this movie, he played alongside Freed, Bill Haley"
"The show's theme tune was ""Where I Find My Heaven"" by the Gigolo Aunts. The single reached number 29 in the UK singles chart in May 1995, when the series debuted, and was also included in the soundtrack to the film ""Dumb and Dumber"" at the same time. Among other music included was ""Dogs of Lust"" by The The, ""Screamager"" by Therapy?, ""From Despair to Where"" by Manic Street Preachers, ""Girls & Boys"" by Blur, ""God! Show Me Magic"" by Super Furry Animals, ""The View From Here"" by Dubstar and Oasis. A fourth series was initially considered. Writer Bernadette Davis"
"for ""I'll Never Forget You"" (both 1951). He played the lead in ""Lady Godiva Rides Again"" (1951), and after a cameo in ""The Magic Box"" (1951) he was in a comedy, ""Song of Paris"" (1952). Price supported in ""The Tall Headlines"" (1952) and had the lead in some B-films: ""Noose for a Lady"" (1953), ""Murder at 3am"" (1953) and ""Time Is My Enemy"" (1954). In ""A"" pictures he was now a supporting actor: ""The Intruder"" (1953), ""For Better, for Worse"" (1954), ""That Lady"" (1955), ""Oh... Rosalinda!!"" (1955), ""Private's Progress"" (1956), ""Charley Moon"" (1956) with Max Bygraves, ""Port Afrique"" (1956), ""A"
"degree of success. But it was the film's and soundtrack LP's theme song, ""Lola's Theme"", that became a radio favorite. It spanned three successful singles interpreted by different bands; in June 1956 Columbia Records released a Muir Mathieson Orchestra version featuring ""Lola's Theme"" on the A-side and ""Mike and Lola's Love Theme"" on the B-side (catalog Columbia 40725). This was followed in July by a Coral Records release of Steve Allen's version featuring ""Lola's Theme"" on the A-side and ""Conversation (on the Telephone)"" on the B-side (catalog Coral 61681). Later that same month, a third single was released by Mercury"
"at #43 on the Billboard year-end Hot 100 chart for 1983. In New Zealand it Hit Number 1 for four weeks and was one of the country's anthems of the year. The song later appeared on Joel's ""Greatest Hits: Volume II"" (1985), ""Концерт"" (1987), """" (2000), ""The Essential Billy Joel"" (2001), ""12 Gardens Live"" (2006) and """" (2011) albums. The song's theme is of the resolve of those coping with the decline of the American manufacturing industry and the emergence of the Rust Belt in the latter part of the 20th century. More specifically, it depicts the depressed, blue-collar livelihood"
"AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 22, 2004, in a CBS television special hosted by John Travolta, who appeared in two films honored by the list, ""Saturday Night Fever"" and ""Grease"". ""Singin' in the Rain"", ""The Sound of Music"" and ""West Side Story"" each have three songs on the list. ""The Wizard of Oz"", ""A Star Is Born"" (#11 from the 1954 version and #16"
"(1954), ""A Man Alone"" (1955), ""The Conqueror"" (1956) and ""The Maverick Queen"" (1956). He contributed two tone poems, ""White"" and ""Black"", to the 1956 album ""Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color"". His last scores were for the 1957 films ""Omar Khayyam"", ""Run of the Arrow"" and ""China Gate"", which were released after his death. The last was left unfinished at the time of his death and was finished by his long-time friend Max Steiner. ""The Call of the Faraway Hills"", which Young had composed for the film ""Shane"", was also used as the theme for the U.S. television series"
"1955 was listening to, and the elder Ford borrowed several records from his son's collection, one of which was Haley's ""Rock Around the Clock"" and this was the song chosen. In 2004 the song finished at #50 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. On July 9, 1955 ""Rock Around the Clock"" became the first rock and roll recording to hit the top of ""Billboard""'s Pop charts, a feat it repeated on charts around the world. The song stayed at this place for eight weeks. The record was also no.1 for seven weeks on the"
"""An American in Paris"" (1951), ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), and ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"" (1954). However, ""Brigadoon"" (1954), ""Deep in My Heart"" (1954), ""It's Always Fair Weather"" (1955), and ""Invitation to the Dance"" (1956), were extravagant song and dance flops, and even the now-classic ""The Band Wagon"" (1953) lost money in its initial release. Movie audiences more and more were staying home and watching television. In 1952, as a settlement of the government's restraint-of-trade action, ""United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc."" 334 US 131 (1948), Loews, Inc. gave up control of MGM. It would take another five years"
"""lingua franca"" of blues, jazz, and rock and roll"". In 1955, songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller used the riff for ""Riot in Cell Block Number 9"" (later reworked by the Beach Boys as ""Student Demonstration Time"") and ""Framed"" for the R&B group the Robins. ""Trouble"", another Leiber and Stoller composition that uses the riff, was sung by Elvis Presley in the 1958 musical drama film ""King Creole"". American composer Elmer Bernstein quoted the figure in another film, ""The Man with the Golden Arm"", which received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1955. Dixon remarked,"
"is remembered: ""Little Dipper"" (1959, recorded under the name ""The Mickey Mozart Quintet"") peaked at #30 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, ""Ebb Tide"" (1953) was a perennial favorite, and ""Shangri-La"" was a hit in 1957 for The Four Coins and 1969 for The Lettermen. Maxwell's own instrumental version, featuring an organ solo rather than his harp, which is heard in the introduction as well as in the coda of the song, reached #15 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1964. Another of his songs, ""Solfeggio"", performed by Maxwell's orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers, gained unexpected fame as the theme"
"on October 18, 1960, in a New York City recording session with Stan Applebaum arranging and conducting. Although it only peaked at # 4 in the US, the theme song of ""Where the Boys are"" became Connie Francis's signature tune, followed by several cover versions. Besides the theme song, Francis sang another Sedaka-Greenfield composition: ""Turn on the Sunshine"", in the film. The film's soundtrack also features ""Have You Met Miss Fandango"". The song was sung by co-star Barbara Nichols and featured music by Victor Young and lyrics by Stella Unger. MGM did not release a soundtrack album for ""Where the"