Currently listening to.... 2016

@Linz
Lee Marvin reached No 1 in the charts with it in 1970. Maybe that was a significant year for you.

The song was written by Lerner and Loewe for the stage show Paint your Wagon, 19 years before the film came out.

 

Same as me

 

It was the first film to be shown in London in a cinema where the back row had twin seats.

Had to try it out

 

Following on from my post about the songs in the film 'Paint your Wagon', the most popular song was 'They Call The Wind Maria'. It was sung in the film by Harve Presnell who was a fairly well known actor and singer who had leading roles in film and on stage. He was a classically trained singer and also sang in operas. He won a Golden Globe in 1965.



An interesting fact abut the song was that the name of 'Maria' given to the wind came from a book by George Rippey Stewart published in 1941. It was the inspiration for meteorologists to start naming Pacific storms after women's names (the book was called 'Storm').

Not quite so interesting is that Mariah Carey was named after the song!

 

The story behind the writing of Universal Soldier. Buffy Sainte-Marie (Canadian) wrote it in 1964 and recorded it the same year. It didn't become a hit until Donovan recorded it the following year in England. It then became a hit in the U.S.

I've still got my original 1964 recording by Buffy



As a songwriter she has written a lot of songs for other well known performers.

She received a BAFTA, Academy Award, a JUNO Award and a Golden Globe for this song



She also has over a dozen Honorary Doctorates.