BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER ~ SIMON & GARFUNKEL

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Bluedreamer's Choice No 28

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"Bridge over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon & Garfunkel's final album together, released January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live album "Simon & Garfunkel, Live 1969." It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at the top of the chart for six weeks. "Bridge over Troubled Water" also topped the adult contemporary chart in the U.S. for six weeks. Rolling Stone named it number 47 on The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The single won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in the Grammy Awards of 1971, with its album also winning several awards in the same year. A gospel-inspired cover version by Aretha Franklin, taken from her album Aretha Live at Fillmore West, reached number one on the U.S. R&B chart and number six on the pop chart.. and later won the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in the 1972 awards. Elvis Presley recorded it in Nashville on June 5, 1970, and it was released on the 1970 album That's the Way It Is. The Supremes recorded a version in 1970. The Jackson 5 covered the song on their Third Album in 1970. Roberta Flack covered the song on her album Quiet Fire in 1971. Willie Nelson covered the song on his 1982 album Always on My Mind. American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken performed this song on the Season 2 Finale.

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These Top 50 songs are based on my personal choice and are not listed in order
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LOVE ME TENDER ~ ELVIS PRESLEY

Love Me Tender is an American black and white motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb, and released by 20th Century Fox on November 21, 1956. The film, named after the song, stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget, and Elvis Presley in his film debut. It is in the Western genre with musical numbers. Because it was Presley's movie debut, it was the only time in his acting career that he did not receive top billing. Love Me Tender was originally to be titled The Reno Brothers, but when advanced sales of Presley's "Love Me Tender" single passed one million—a first for a single—the film title was changed to match. The title song had already been released as a single on September 28, 1956, and went to #1 on the singles chart. The music was based on the Civil War ballad "Aura Lee," with new lyrics by Ken Darby. Darby, in fact, wrote all of the soundtrack songs, but credited them to his wife, Vera Matson, while Parker cut his publishing company, Hill and Range, in on the royalties by further crediting the writing to Presley as well. A reprise of "Love Me Tender" was recorded on October 1 and is heard at the end of the film; this short track was not released until after Presley's death. The sessions for these songs were the only time in the decade that Presley recorded with musicians outside his regular coterie.

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