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The Best Of Debby Boone
''The Best of Debby Boone'' (1986) is the first compilation album for Debby Boone, collecting ten tracks from her five secular studio albums released by Curb Records from 1977 to 1981. Track listing # " You Light Up My Life" (Joe Brooks) :35#* From '' You Light Up My Life'' #* No. 1 (Hot 100), No. 4 (Country), No. 1 (AC) # "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" ( Howard Greenfield, Jack Keller) :22#* 1979 single - first album release #* No. 48 (Country) # " Baby I'm Yours" (Van McCoy) :36#* From '' You Light Up My Life'' #* Flip (Hot 100), No. 33 (Country), No. 18 (AC) # "God Knows" (Franne Golde, Peter Noone, Allee Willis) :25#* From '' Midstream'' #* No. 74 (Hot 100), No. 22 (Country), No. 14 (AC) # "When You're Loved" (Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman) :26#* From '' Midstream'' #* No. 48 (AC) # "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again" (Debbie Hupp, Bob Morrison) :30#* From ''Love Has No Reason'' #* No. 1 (Country), No. 31 (AC) # " My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" (Howard G ...
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Debby Boone
Deborah Anne Boone (born September 22, 1956) is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life (song), You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. Boone later focused her music career on country music, resulting in the 1980 No. 1 country hit "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again". In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top 10 Contemporary Christian music, Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Throughout her career, Boone has appeared in several musical theater productions and has co-authored many children's books with her husband Gabriel Ferrer. Biography Beginnings Debby Boone was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the third of four daughters born to singer-actor Pat Boone and Shirley Foley Boone, daughter of country music star Red Foley ...
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Allee Willis
Alta Sherral "Allee" Willis (November 10, 1947 – December 24, 2019) was an American songwriter, multi-media artist, collector, and art director. Willis co-wrote hit songs including "September" and "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire. She also co-wrote the song " What Have I Done to Deserve This?", a number 2 hit in both the UK (in 1987) and U.S. (in 1988) for Pet Shop Boys featuring Dusty Springfield. She won two Grammy Awards for ''Beverly Hills Cop'' and ''The Color Purple'', the latter of which was also nominated for a Tony Award, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for " I'll Be There for You", which was used as the theme song for the sitcom ''Friends''. Her compositions sold over 60 million records and she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018 as the only woman to be inducted that year. Early life Willis was born and grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where she attended Mumford High School. Her parents were Jewish. Her father, Nathan, was a scrapyard dea ...
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1986 Compilation Albums
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ...
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David Shire
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and composer of stage Musical theater, musicals, film and television film score, scores. The soundtracks to the 1976 film ''The Big Bus'', ''The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three'', ''The Conversation'' and ''All the President's Men (film), All the President's Men'', and parts of the ''Saturday Night Fever'' soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline", are some of his best-known works. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film ''Return to Oz'' (the "sequel-in-part" of ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), The Wizard of Oz''), and the stage musical scores of ''Baby (musical), Baby'', ''Big: the musical, Big'', ''Closer Than Ever'', and ''Starting Here, Starting Now''. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn. Education and early career Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, to Esther Miriam (married and maiden names, née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher ...
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Marilyn Bergman
Alan Bergman (born September 11, 1925) and Marilyn Keith Bergman (November 10, 1928 – January 8, 2022) were an American songwriting duo. Married from 1958 until Marilyn's death, together they wrote music and lyrics for numerous celebrated television, film, and stage productions. The Bergmans enjoyed a successful career, honored with four Emmys, three Oscars, two Grammys (including Song of the Year), and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Biography and career Alan Bergman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1925, the son of Ruth (Margulies), a homemaker and community volunteer, and Samuel Bergman, who worked in children's clothing sales. He studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his master's degree in music at UCLA. Marilyn Bergman was born in 1928, coincidentally at the same Brooklyn hospital where Alan had been born three years earlier, and was the daughter of Edith (Arkin) and Albert A. Katz. Both Alan and Marilyn are from Jewish famili ...
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Alan Bergman
Alan Bergman (born September 11, 1925) and Marilyn Keith Bergman (November 10, 1928 – January 8, 2022) were an American songwriting duo. Married from 1958 until Marilyn's death, together they wrote music and lyrics for numerous celebrated television, film, and stage productions. The Bergmans enjoyed a successful career, honored with four Emmys, three Oscars, two Grammys (including Song of the Year), and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Biography and career Alan Bergman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1925, the son of Ruth (Margulies), a homemaker and community volunteer, and Samuel Bergman, who worked in children's clothing sales. He studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his master's degree in music at UCLA. Marilyn Bergman was born in 1928, coincidentally at the same Brooklyn hospital where Alan had been born three years earlier, and was the daughter of Edith (Arkin) and Albert A. Katz. Both Alan and Marilyn are from Jewish famili ...
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The Promise (1979 Film)
''The Promise'' is a 1979 American romantic drama film released by Universal Pictures which starred Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Collins, and Beatrice Straight. It was directed by Gilbert Cates and produced by Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller. Weintraub and Heller also wrote the source story, which Garry Michael White dramatized; the resultant film was novelized by Danielle Steel. It was remade in India as the Hindi film '' Yeh Vaada Raha'' (1982). Plot In a rich-boy/poor-girl story along the lines of '' Love Story,'' college students Michael Hillyard (Collins) and Nancy McAllister (Quinlan) are in love. While visiting a park overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, they hide a costume jewelry necklace under a large rock, promising that they will love each other as long as it remains undisturbed—which they expect to be forever. Michael goes to his mother, Marion (Straight), and announces his plans to marry Nancy, but she thinks Nancy will hurt Michael's career with their family business. ...
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Savin' It Up
After the album '' Love Has No Reason'' yielded the No. 1 Country single, "Are You On The Road To Lovin' Me Again", Debby Boone returned to producer Larry Butler for her fifth studio album, ''Savin' It Up'' (No. 49 Country), in 1981. The result was not as successful. The album's first single, "Perfect Fool", only reached No. 23 Country and No. 37 AC. The follow-up, "It'll Be Him", missed the Country Top 40 peaking at No. 46. Boone has since not appeared on any Billboard Country chart. After the release of this album, Boone instead concentrated on a national tour starring in the musical, ''Seven Brides For Seven Brothers'', before recording several Christian albums during the rest of the 1980s. Track listing Side 1 # "It'll Be Him" (Billy Ray Reynolds) 3:01 # "Isn't That Just Like Love" (Richard Leigh) 2:50 # " Every Day I Have to Cry" (Arthur Alexander) 2:29 # "Only Wounded" (Peter Allen, Carole Bayer Sager) 3:33 # "Perfect Fool" (Diane Pfeifer) 2:17 Side 2 # "Savin' It Up" ...
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Debby Boone (album)
''Debby Boone'' is a 1979 album by Debby Boone and her third solo studio album for Warner Bros./Curb. Unlike Boone's previous two albums, 1977's '' You Light Up My Life'' (No. 6 Pop, No. 6 Country) and 1978's ''Midstream'' (No. 147 Pop), this album did not reach any Billboard album chart. The album featured two singles, "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" (No. 11 Country) and " Breakin' in a Brand New Broken Heart" (No. 25 Country), that charted earlier in 1979 prior to the August 21, 1979 release of this album. Oddly, Warner Bros. released Boone's single, "See You in September" (No. 41 Country, No. 45 AC), when this album was released, although this song was not featured on this album. (To date, "See You in September" has not been featured on any Boone album.) Boone's next single, "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" (No. 48 Country), was also not culled from this album. (This single was eventually included on Boone's 1986 compilation, "The Best of Debby Boone.") Boone married Gabrie ...
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My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own
"My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller which was a No. 1 hit for Connie Francis in 1960. Connie Francis recording Francis recorded "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" at Radio Recorders studio in Hollywood over three different sessions on July 9, 25, and 31, 1960 with Jesse Kaye and Arnold Maxin acting as producers; Gus Levene arranged the orchestration and conducted. Jack Keller brought one of the LA tapes back to New York for a Sax & Guitar overdub at Olmstead Studios. Artie Kaplan and Al Gorgoni were brought in for the sax and guitar overdub. Several takes from these sessions are still extant. The original MGM K 12923 single utilized Take 49 (recorded July 31, 1960) but two weeks into release this was replaced by Take 37 (recorded July 25, 1960) at the behest of Francis and the song's writers. "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" became Francis' second consecutive A-side to top the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 reaching No. 1 on the chart d ...
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Love Has No Reason
Unable to approach the success of " You Light Up My Life", Debby Boone left Top 40 radio behind in 1980 and turned her career toward Country music with the release of her fourth album, ''Love Has No Reason'' (No. 17 Country). Boone had already established a presence on Country radio prior to the release of this album having placed seven singles, including " You Light Up My Life" (No. 4 Country), on Billboard's Country Singles chart. Boone's first album, '' You Light Up My Life'', also reached No. 6 on Billboard's Country Albums chart. ''Love Has No Reason'' was produced by Larry Butler who was responsible for much of Kenny Rogers' music during this era. The album's first single, "Are You On The Road To Lovin' Me Again," rose to No. 1 on the Country singles chart and crossed over to AC radio peaking at No. 31. Two weeks before ''Road'' ascended to No. 1, Boone was part of a historic Top 5 on the Billboard Country singles chart. For the week ending April 19, 1980, the Top 5 posi ...
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Are You On The Road To Lovin' Me Again
"Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again" is a song recorded by American country and pop music artist Debby Boone. It was released in February 1980 as the first single from the album '' Love Has No Reason''. The song was written by Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison. The song was Debby Boone's most successful country hit and her only number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a week and spent a total of ten weeks on the country chart. Nancy Sinatra included a version on her 1995 album "One More Time". Historic week The song was part of a historic week on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart during the week of April 19, 1980. That week, all of the top five positions were held by female singers, the first time in the chart's history this would occur. The Top 5 from that week was: # " It's Like We Never Said Goodbye" by Crystal Gayle # " A Lesson in Leavin'" by Dottie West # "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again" by Debby Boone # " Beneath Still Water ...
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