LYRICS: Oh, my love My darling I've hungered for your touch A long, lonely time! Time goes by so slowly And time can do so much Are you still mine? I need your love I need your love God speed your love to me! Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea To the open arms of the sea Yes, lonely rivers sigh, "Wait for me, wait for me I'll be coming home, wait for me”! Oh, my love My darling I've hungered, hungered for your touch A long, lonely time! And time goes by so slowly And time can do so much Are you still mine? I need your love I need your love God speed your love to me! +++ "Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North used the music as a theme for the little-known prison film Unchained, hence the name. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. It has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers. According to the song's publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of "Unchained Melody" have been made by more than 670 artists in multiple languages. In 1955, three versions of the song (Les Baxter, Al Hibbler, Roy Hamilton) charted in the Billboard Top 10 in the United States, and four versions (Al Hibbler, Les Baxter, Jimmy Young and Liberace) appeared in the Top 20 in the United Kingdom simultaneously, an unbeaten record for any song. Of the hundreds of recordings made, it was the July 1965 version by the Righteous Brothers, performed as a solo by Bobby Hatfield, that became a jukebox standard for the late 20th century. This version achieved a second round of great popularity when it was featured in the 1990 blockbuster film Ghost. In 2004, it finished at number 27 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. +++ Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (Italian pronunciation: [anˈnuntsjo ˈpaːolo mantoˈvaːni]) (1905 – 1980), known as Mantovani, was an Anglo-Italian conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature. The book British Hit Singles & Albums states that he was "Britain's most successful album act before the Beatles...the first act to sell over one million stereo albums and [have] six albums simultaneously in the US Top 30 in 1959”. The cascading strings technique developed by Robert Binge became Mantovani's hallmark in such hits arranged by Binge as "Charmaine". Binge developed this technique to replicate the echoexperienced in venues such as cathedrals and he achieved this goal through arranging skill alone. Author Joseph Lanza describes Mantovani's string arrangements as the most "rich and mellifluous" of the emerging light music style during the early 1950s. He stated that Mantovani was a leader in the use of new studio technologies to "create sound tapestries with innumerable strings", and that "the sustained hum of Mantovani's reverberated violins produced a sonic vaporizer foreshadowing the synthesizer harmonics of space music." His style survived through an ever-changing variety of musical styles prompting Variety to call him "the biggest musical phenomenon of the twentieth century". +++ ALBUM SONGS: Unchained Melody (Mantovani), Twilight Time (Andre Gagnon), Twilight Time (The Romantic Strings), Twilight Time (The Three Suns), Trumpeter’s Lullaby (Arthur Fiedler), Too Young (101 Strings), Tonight (West Side Story), Tonight (Arthur Fiedler), Tonight (Ferrante & Teicher), Tonight (Frank Chacksfield), +++ Imagine that you have been invited to a statuesque chateau overlooking the sea! You are on the balcony watching the crashing waves while this music streams beautifully into your ears reminding you of so many amorous, maudlin, schmaltzy & nostalgic times of the past... +++ GOOGLE SONG INFO: Tonight - Ferrante & Teicher 25:18 - 28:14 Twilight Time - André Gagnon 2:17 - 6:56 Unchained Melody - Mantovani & His Orchestra 0:02 - 2:12 Trumpeter's Lullaby - Arthur Fiedler [Conductor], The Boston Pops Orchestra [Orchestra 13:15 - 16:01 Too Young - Instrumental 101 Orchestra 16:11 - 20:00 Tonight : West Side Story - The London Pops Orchestra 20:09 - 22:29 Twilight Time - Various Artists 7:01 - 9:55 +++ Each one of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking ourselves, “How can I help?” That’s exactly what Jesus did. He didn’t make it easy for Himself by avoiding people’s troubles, but waded right in and helped out. +++ MORE BEAUTIFUL CLASSICAL MUSIC VIDEOS: https://goo.gl/c4HspF https://www.facebook.com/groups/EasyListening1950s

• published: 07 Mar 2017
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