Showing posts with label Laura Branigan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laura Branigan. Show all posts

Thursday, July 7, 2011

IT'S HARD TO SAY GOODBYE ~ CELINE DION AND PAUL ANKA

The song was originally called as "Foolish Lullaby" which is originally recorded by Laura Branigan. The song was covered in 1998 as a duet between Paul Anka and Céline Dion for Anka's A Body of Work album. This version has completely new lyrics written by Anka and is titled "It's Hard to Say Goodbye". It was released as a promotional single on September 14, 1998 in the United States. Céline Dion and Paul Anka recorded earlier a bilingual version, in which Dion sings in Spanish and Anka in English. Entitled "Mejor Decir Adios," it was included on Paul Anka's Amigos album, released on July 30, 1996. Adrian Posse and Humberto Gatica wrote the Spanish lyrics. Anka also recorded the song with Regine Velasquez in 1993 on her album Reason Enough.

Friday, June 10, 2011

THE POWER OF LOVE ~ CELINE DION

"The Power of Love " is the second (if counting "When I Fall in Love" as first) single from Céline Dion's 1993 album, The Colour of My Love. It was released on November 1, 1993 in North America, in December in Japan, and the next year in the rest of the world."The Power of Love" is the second Jennifer Rush song Dion has covered. Earlier the same year she recorded a French adaptation of "Higher Ground," called "Plus haut que moi." The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and an American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single in 1995. "The Power of Love" became an international smash hit. The song rose to the top of the charts in the United States, Australia and Canada. In the U.S. it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, the first Céline Dion single to do so. The song spent 12 weeks at the top in Canada and 70 weeks on the chart in total. "The Power of Love" was a top 10 hit in the rest of the world (number 3 in France, number 4 in the United Kingdom and Belgium, number 6 in Sweden, number 7 in New Zealand).

Saturday, May 14, 2011

UNISON ~ CELINE DION

"Unison" is a song written by Andy Goldmark and Bruce Roberts, and first recorded by R&B/dance artist Junior in 1983 for the Tom Cruise movie All the Right Moves. A minor hit, the song would attract a good deal of attention in 1990, when three female singers (Laura Branigan, Lory Bianco and Celine Dion) each covered the song and placed it on their respective albums of that year. "Unison" was released as the album's second single in Canada (July 14, 1990) and fourth in Japan (November 4, 1991). In the rest of the world, "Unison" was used as B-side to "The Last to Know" single. There were four club mixes created by Kevin Unger: single mix with rap, single mix without rap, mainstream extended mix, and club mix. Three of them feature rap by Frankie Fudge. They can be found on the Canadian editions of this single. The remixes took weeks of pre-production with the ultimate goal of making the original album version into a dance pop track for both contemporary radios and club dance floors. The new versions took 3 days to mix at Toronto's famed Metal Works Studios.

The music video was made in July 1990 for the single mix with rap and featured what many believed was an appearance by Frankie Fudge. However the person in the video was not Frankie Fudge. The video was included on the Unison VHS. The song reached number 38 in Canada. "Unison" was more successful on the Canadian Contemporary Hit Radio Chart where it peaked at number 27. In the clubs, "Unison" became a national hit, peaking at number 1 on Canada's National Club Chart for 7 weeks. It was voted the song of the year 1990 in Quebec (ahead of Madonna's "Vogue") on the Énergie radio network's Le choix du Québec. Arguably, the success of the remix single was the springboard Sony Music Canada needed to garner the attention of its U.S. parent company, leading to Dion's release in the U.S. market.


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