"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny Opera. The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld from the musical named Macheath,the "Mack the Knife" of the title.
"Over the Rainbow",also known as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow",is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg. It was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz,in which it was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and became Garland's signature song.
Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British singer and songwriter. She was born in Kutaisi,Georgia and raised in Belfast and London. Under the management of composer Mike Batt,she was signed to the small Dramatico record label. She made her musical debut in 2003 and within three years,she was the United Kingdom's best-selling female artist as well as Europe's highest selling European female artist.
Call off the Search is the debut studio album by British jazz and blues singer Katie Melua,released in 2003.
Impulse! Records is an American jazz record label established by Creed Taylor in 1960. John Coltrane was among Impulse!'s earliest signings. Thanks to consistent sales and positive critiques of his recordings,the label came to be known as "the house that Trane built".
Michael Philip Batt is an English singer-songwriter,musician,arranger,record producer,director,and conductor. He was formerly the Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry.
"The Love You Save" is a song recorded by the Jackson 5 for Motown Records. It was released as a single on May 13,1970,and held the number-one spot on the soul singles chart in the US for six weeks and the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks,from June 27 to July 4,1970 and sold over 2 million copies in the United States. In the UK top 40 chart,it peaked at number 7 in August 1970. The song is the third of the four-in-a-row Jackson 5 number-ones released. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 16 song of 1970,one place behind the Jackson 5's "ABC".
"The Air That I Breathe" is a ballad written by the British-Gibraltarian singer-songwriter Albert Hammond and the English songwriter Mike Hazlewood. It was initially recorded by Hammond on his debut album,It Never Rains in Southern California (1972). After being covered by Phil Everly in 1973,it was a major hit for the Hollies in early 1974,reaching number two in the UK Singles Chart. It was the Hollies' last major hit. The English rock band Radiohead reused the chord progression and melody of "The Air That I Breathe" for their 1992 song "Creep".
Robert "Bob" Thiele was an American record producer who worked on numerous classic jazz albums and record labels.
"Angel of the Morning" is a popular song written by Chip Taylor,originally recorded by Evie Sands but which first charted with a version by Merrilee Rush. The song has been covered by many artists including Chrissie Hynde,Dusty Springfield,P. P. Arnold,Connie Eaton,Mary Mason,Guys 'n' Dolls,Melba Montgomery,Olivia Newton-John and Juice Newton.
"Just Like Heaven" is a song by British alternative rock band the Cure. The group wrote most of the song during recording sessions in southern France in 1987. The lyrics were written by their frontman Robert Smith,who drew inspiration from a past trip to the sea shore with his future wife. Smith's memories of the trip formed the basis for the song's accompanying music video. Before Smith had completed the lyrics,an instrumental version of the song was used as the theme for the French television show Les Enfants du Rock.
"I Think I Love You" is a song by Tony Romeo,written as the debut single for fictional musical TV family the Partridge Family. It was released in August 1970,a month prior to the debut of the ABC-TV musical sitcom The Partridge Family starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy,both of whom appear on the record,with Cassidy as lead vocalist. The single topped Billboard's Hot 100 for three weeks in November and December 1970 and later was certified by NARM as the best-selling single of 1970.
"The Closest Thing to Crazy" is the debut single of Georgia-born singer Katie Melua. The song is featured on her first studio album,Call Off the Search (2003). The song was written as part of the musical Men Who March Away,and appeared first in 1995 on Mike Batt's album Arabesque.
"Nine Million Bicycles" is a song written and produced by Mike Batt for the singer Katie Melua's second album,Piece by Piece. It was released as the album's first single in September 2005 and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart,becoming Melua's first top five hit as a solo artist. It was a finalist for The Record of the Year prize,losing to "You Raise Me Up" by Westlife.
"Fields of Gold" is a song written and performed by English musician Sting. It first appeared on his fourth studio album,Ten Summoner's Tales (1993). The song,co-produced by Sting with Hugh Padgham,was released as a single on 7 June 1993 by A&M Records,reaching No. 16 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song also reached No. 2 in Canada and No. 6 in Iceland. In 1994,it was awarded one of BMI's Pop Songs Awards. The music video for the song was directed by Kevin Godley,featuring Sting as a gold silhouette.
"It's All in the Game" is a pop song whose most successful version was recorded by Tommy Edwards in 1958. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition titled "Melody in A Major",written by Charles G. Dawes,who was later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only No. 1 single in the U.S. to have been co-written by a U.S. Vice President or a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
"I Think We're Alone Now" is a song written and composed by Ritchie Cordell that was first recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells. It was a major hit for the group,reaching number 4 on the US Hot 100 in April 1967. It finished at No. 12 on Billboard magazine's year-end singles chart for 1967.
"Cherish" is a pop song written by Terry Kirkman and recorded by the Association. Released in 1966,the song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in September of that year and remained in the top position for three weeks. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 7 song of 1966,and later as No. 2,after a revision of the year-end charts. It was certified Gold by the RIAA in the US in 1966. In Canada,the song also reached number one.
"Wonderful Life" is a song by British singer Black from his 1987 debut album,Wonderful Life. The song was released twice as a single and was successful the second time,becoming a top-10 hit in Australia,Austria,France,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Black,who wrote the song while broke,commented:"I was really being ironic... Most people took it at face value."
The singles discography of British-Australian recording artist Olivia Newton-John consists of 70 singles,three as a featured artist and 25 promotional recordings. She was a four-time Grammy award winner who amassed five number-one and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles,seven Top Ten Billboard Hot Country singles,and two number-one Billboard 200 solo albums. Ten of her singles topped Billboard's adult contemporary music singles chart. Eleven of her singles have been certified gold by the RIAA. She sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide,making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.
