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I Have Confidence
The soundtrack of the film ''The Sound of Music (film), The Sound of Music'' was released in 1965 by RCA Victor and is one of the most successful soundtrack albums in history, having sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.Eyman, Scott"The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Money" ''The Wall Street Journal'', February 27, 2015, accessed December 30, 2017 The label has also issued the soundtrack in German, Italian, Spanish and French editions. The soundtrack reached the number one position on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 that year in the United States, remained in the top ten for a record 109 weeks, from May 1, 1965 to July 16, 1967, and remained on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart for 238 weeks. In 2015, ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' named the original soundtrack album the second-best charting album of all time. It was the best-selling album in the United Kingdom in 1965, 1966 and 1968 and the second best-selling of the decade, spending a total of 70 weeks at number one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Show Tune
A show tune is a song originally written as part of the score of a work of musical theatre or musical film, especially if the piece in question has become a standard, more or less detached in most people's minds from the original context. Though show tunes vary in style, they do tend to share common characteristics—they usually fit the context of a story being told in the original musical, they are useful in enhancing and heightening choice moments. A particularly common form of show tune is the "I Want" song, which composer Stephen Schwartz noted as being particularly likely to have a lifespan outside the show that spawned it. Show tunes were a major venue for popular music before the rock and roll and television era; most of the hits of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin came from their shows. (Even into the television and rock era, a few stage musicals managed to turn their show tunes into major pop music hits, sometimes aided by fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |