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Damn Yankees is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend [ 1 ] set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball .
"High Enough" is a song by American supergroup Damn Yankees from their self-titled debut album. A power ballad, it is their most successful single in terms of chart position and sales, rising to No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, the group's first (and only) top-ten pop single. It also reached No. 2 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart ...
Shaw, Blades and Nugent were put together by big time Rock mover and shaker John Kalodner as Damn Yankees in 1989 [5] in response to declining commercial success of their original bands. [6] Produced by rock producer Ron Nevison , the newly formed band's self-titled debut album was released in 1990 and went double-platinum in 1994. [ 7 ]
Damn Yankees is the self-titled debut album by the American hard rock supergroup Damn Yankees, released by Warner Bros. Records on March 13, 1990. It was certified double platinum in the US [ 5 ] and featured such chart topping hits as " High Enough ", "Come Again", and "Coming of Age".
Damn Yankees (retitled What Lola Wants in the United Kingdom) is a 1958 American musical sports romantic comedy film. It was directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Abbott, adapted from his and Douglass Wallop's book of the 1955 musical of the same name with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, itself based on the 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the ...
"Whatever Lola Wants" is the title of an episode of the 2005 television series Hot Properties and the title of an episode of ABC-TV's 1965 crime drama Honey West. [5]A film entitled Whatever Lola Wants, directed by Nabil Ayouch and starring Laura Ramsey as Lola, premiered on 11 December 2007 at the Dubai International Film Festival and was scheduled for release in France on 16 April 2008.
Jerry Ross (born Jerold Rosenberg; March 9, 1926 – November 11, 1955) was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956, respectively, in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories.
Adler was born in New York City, [1] the son of Elsa Adrienne (née Richard) and Clarence Adler. [2] His mother was a debutante from Mobile, Alabama. [3] Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a renowned Jewish concert pianist, as well as teacher of such composers as Aaron Copland.