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"The Wayward Wind" is a country song written by Stanley Lebowsky (music) and Herb Newman (lyrics), [1] [2] and first recorded by American singer Gogi Grant in 1955, and released in 1956. Grant's version reached No. 1 on both the Cash Box charts, where it remained at No. 1 for five weeks, and the Billboard charts, remaining at No. 1 for six weeks, ending Elvis Presley's seven-week run at No. 1 ...
In 2004, at the age of 80, she sang "The Wayward Wind" on the PBS program Magic Moments. Grant headlined with The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies in Palm Springs, California. One of her more notable appearances of her later years was with the Follies on December 31, 2006. She was still performing as late as 2013, at the age of 89.
Written on the Wind is a 1956 American Southern Gothic [5] melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.It follows the complicated relationships among dysfunctional family members of a Texas oil dynasty: its alcoholic heir, his wife (a former secretary for the family company), his childhood best friend, and his ruthless, self ...
Page recalls attending the sessions, but session musicians on the Bond films were separately relegated to the instrumental score versions of songs, while the main musicians (on Goldfinger: Vic Flick) were given the main theme song to solely record, to be featured at the beginning of the film, [8] leaving Page as a background acoustic contributor to Flick on the instrumental version of the song.
"Carry On Wayward Son" is considered the unofficial theme song for the television series Supernatural. [38] [39] It is heard in the final episode of almost every season of the show, in "The Road So Far" synopses of previous episodes. [40] [a] At San Diego Comic-Con in 2017, Kansas appeared at the Supernatural panel and played the song live. [41]
On May 6, the local opera house hosted Leisa Way & the Wayward Wind Band, a previously planned show that paid tribute to Lightfoot that became a memorial show of sorts. It sold out in the event of his death. [86] A day later, a public visitation was held at St. Paul's United Church that drew more than 2,400 people. [87]
The Blues Brothers Band recorded the song as part of their 1998 film Blues Brothers 2000. [citation needed] Ned Sublette recorded the song, in a Cuban-influenced style, on his 1999 album "Cowboy Rumba". [21] In the 1993 video game Back to the Future Part III the song is rendered in Chiptune for background music during the first level.
Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American country music singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s. He was the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John Ritter, grandsons Jason Ritter and Tyler Ritter, and granddaughter Carly).