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"The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" is a song, written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander, [4] and recorded by the British rhythm and blues musician Georgie Fame. [3] Released as a single , the song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for one week from 24 January 1968. [ 5 ]
The song tells the story of the outlaw couple Bonnie and Clyde. It is based on an English language poem written by Bonnie Parker herself a few weeks before she and Clyde Barrow were shot, titled "The Trail's End". The French song was released on two albums in 1968: Gainsbourg's album Initials B.B., and Gainsbourg and Bardot's album Bonnie and ...
Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's 1967 single "Bonnie and Clyde". [161] [162] Georgie Fame's 1967 single "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde". [163] [164] Mel Tormé's 1968 song "A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde" and album of the same name. [165] [166] Merle Haggard's 1968 single "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde".
The song was written as a jingle for a petrol commercial. [15] His version of the Bobby Hebb song "Sunny" made No. 13 in the UK charts in September 1966. [16] His greatest chart success was in 1967 when "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" became a number one hit in the UK and number seven in the US. [5] "
The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde'" is a song written by American country music artists Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens, and recorded by Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in January 1968 as the first single and title track from the album The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde .
Strouse wrote the music and lyrics for the animated special Lyle, Lyle Crocodile which aired on HBO in 1987. [16] His film scores include Bonnie and Clyde (1967), There Was a Crooked Man... (1970, with Henry Fonda and Kirk Douglas ), the Norman Lear production of The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968, with Adams) and the popular animated movie ...
The song was written and recorded in late 1967 for Gainsbourg's then-girlfriend, Brigitte Bardot.After a disappointing date with Bardot, she "phoned and demanded as a penance" the following day [2] [3] that he write, for her, "the most beautiful love song he could imagine"; that night, he wrote "Je t'aime" and "Bonnie and Clyde". [4]
Owens also co-wrote the album's title track, which was inspired by the 1967 Arthur Penn film Bonnie and Clyde. The song is one of the few Haggard hits from this period to not feature James Burton on guitar, but Glen Campbell, who was about to crack the pop charts with "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and plays banjo on Haggard's track