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Gold Digger" sold over 80,000 digital downloads through legal music services, such as iTunes and Napster, within a week. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] At the time, the song broke the record for the most digital downloads in one week and also scored the fastest download sales ever, feats that were both previously held by Gwen Stefani 's " Hollaback Girl " (2005).
Peggy Hopkins Joyce (born Emma Marguerite Upton; May 26, 1893 – June 12, 1957) was an American actress, artist's model, columnist, dancer and socialite.In addition to her performing career, Joyce was widely known for her flamboyant life, numerous engagements and affairs, six marriages, subsequent divorces, collections of diamonds and furs, and her lavish lifestyle [citation needed].
"Painting the Clouds with Sunshine" is a popular song published in 1929. The music was written by Joe Burke and the lyrics by Al Dubin for the 1929 musical film Gold Diggers of Broadway when it was sung by Nick Lucas. Gold Diggers of Broadway is a partially lost film, and the scene featuring the song is one of the only surviving scenes of the ...
The film is a jukebox musical, featuring popular songs from the 1910s to 1930s, including two songs from Gold Diggers of Broadway ("Painting the Clouds with Sunshine" and "Tiptoe Through the Tulips") and one song from Gold Diggers of 1933 ("We're in the Money").
Kanye West's song "Gold Digger" from his 2005 album Late Registration contains samples of "I Got a Woman"; one particular line is repeated throughout the song in the background. An interpolation by Jamie Foxx, who portrayed Charles in the 2004 biopic Ray, of "I Got a Woman" serves as the introduction to "Gold Digger".
The lyrics salute the nightlife of Broadway and its denizens, who "don't sleep tight until the dawn." The song was introduced by Wini Shaw in the musical film Gold Diggers of 1935, [1] and, in an unusual move, it was used as background music in a sequence in the Bette Davis film Special Agent that same year.
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The song also appears in the 1962 The Chapman Report, played by a calliope at an amusement park; in the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (the film is set in the Great Depression, they are in a theatre where the original Gold Diggers movie is showing, Bonnie is enjoying the song while Clyde is furiously reprimanding ...