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Me Before You (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2016 film Me Before You, based on the 2012 novel of the same name.The album, released on June 1, 2016, by Interscope Records, [1] featured a compilation of songs from various artists including Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons, Holychild, Max Jury, Jack Garratt, The 1975, X Ambassadors among others. [2]
Song Year Album debut Songwriter(s) Lead vocal(s) "99 Pounds" 1967 Changes: Jeff Barry: Davy Jones "Acapulco Sun" 1970 Changes: Ned Albright, Steven Soles: Micky Dolenz "Admiral Mike" 1996 Justus: Michael Nesmith: Micky Dolenz "All Alone in the Dark" 1970 Changes: Ned Albright, Steven Soles Micky Dolenz, with Unknown "All of Your Toys" 1967 ...
In 2006, the song was used again in a Coca-Cola commercial in the Netherlands, performed by Dutch singer Berget Lewis. [12] In 2010, Coca-Cola once again used the song in a television commercial featuring the entire line of its sponsored NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers. The commercial included the drivers singing the song while driving in a race. [13]
The song had become popular as a sea shanty with seafaring sailors by the mid 1800s. [6] A version of the song called "Shanadore" was printed in Capt. Robert Chamblet Adams' article "Sailors' Songs" in the April 1876 issue of The New Dominion Monthly. [7] He also included it in his 1879 book On Board the "Rocket". [8] "
"(Theme from) The Monkees" is a 1966 pop rock song, written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart as the signature tune for the TV series The Monkees. [2] Two versions were recorded – one for their first album The Monkees [2] and a second shorter rendition designed to open the television show. Both feature vocals by Micky Dolenz.
The "Alabama Song"—also known as "Moon of Alabama", "Moon over Alabama", and "Whisky Bar"—is an English version of a song [clarification needed] written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny.
The popularity of the song is lampooned in a 1940s film short. [4] In the film, The King's Men (who also performed on Fibber McGee and Molly) play young men living in a boarding house who are endlessly singing the song while getting dressed, eating dinner, playing cards, etc., until an exasperated fellow boarder (William Irving) finally has them removed to an insane asylum.
"Sincerely" is a popular song written by Harvey Fuqua and Alan Freed and first released by The Moonglows in 1954. [3]The Moonglows recorded the song during their first session for Chess Records, which took place in October, 1954 at Universal Recording Corporation in Chicago. [1]