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Zaret's co-wrote the song "Unchained Melody" with film composer Alex North for the 1955 prison film Unchained (hence the title), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Three versions of the song - by Les Baxter, Al Hibbler, and Roy Hamilton - hit the U.S. Top Ten that year.
The song was nominated in 1956 for 1955's Oscar for best original song from the film Unchained. [202] The re-recorded version by the Righteous Brothers was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1991 in the best pop performance by a duo or group category, [ 203 ] and their original version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000.
As of 2019, the Academy's rules stipulate that "an original song consists of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the motion picture.. It must be clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition (not necessarily visually presented) of both lyric and melody, used in the body of the motion picture or as the first music cue in the end credit
Over 1,500 recordings of "Unchained Melody" have been made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages. [2] In 1955, three versions of the song charted in the Top 10 in the United States, [ 3 ] and four versions appeared in the Top 20 in the United Kingdom simultaneously, an unbeaten record for any song.
The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The top 25 remained unchanged, but many songs down the list were given different rankings as a result of the inclusion of new songs, causing consecutive shifts among the songs listed in 2004.
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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 .
The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.It was one of the early musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930.