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"Sam" is a song performed by Australian singer Olivia Newton-John. It was written by Don Black, Hank Marvin and John Farrar. [2] [3]"Sam" was released in January 1977 as the third and final single from the Newton-John's eighth studio album, Don't Stop Believin' and peaked in the U.S. at number one on the Easy Listening chart and number twenty on the Hot 100. [4]
In terms of popularity at the time, the song was a modest hit. The song was reintroduced in the 1942 film Casablanca, where it was sung by Sam, portrayed by Dooley Wilson. Sam's piano accompaniment was played by a studio pianist, Jean Vincent Plummer; Wilson was a drummer. [6] [7] [8] The melody is heard throughout the film as a leitmotif. [9]
"Sam's Song (The Happy Tune)" is an American pop song written in 1950 with music by Lew Quadling and lyrics by Jack Elliott. [1] It was first released as a Capitol single by Joe "Fingers" Carr and the Carr-Hops in May 1950.
The lyrics of "Wooly Bully" were hard to understand, in effect, some radio stations banned the song. [15] The lyrics describe a conversation between "Mattie" and "Hattie" concerning the "Wooly Bully" (a creature which Mattie describes as "a thing she saw [that] had two big horns and a wooly jaw" – that is, an American bison) and the ...
Parts of the melody of "Sam Stone" were used by Roger Waters in the opening of "The Post War Dream", a song on Pink Floyd's 1983 album The Final Cut.The song is indirectly referenced in "Cop Shoot Cop...", which closes Spiritualized's 1997 album, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space – the lyrics "There's a hole in my arm where all the money goes/Jesus Christ died for nothing, I ...
Take a closer look at Taylor Swift's lyrics for "Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus," off her new album "The Tortured Poets Department." ... There’s one curious song also called “Chloe or Sam or ...
Sam sings the third verse and is joined by Dave for the chorus. The introduction is repeated in the chorus, with both Sam and Dave singing until the song fades out. A revamped version of the song, "Hold On, Edwin's Coming", was recorded by Sam & Dave as a promotional single for Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards ' third election campaign in 1982.
"Writing's on the Wall" is a song by English singer Sam Smith, written for the release of the 2015 James Bond film Spectre. The song was released as a digital download on 25 September 2015. [1] The song was written by Smith and Jimmy Napes, and produced by the latter alongside Steve Fitzmaurice and Disclosure.