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§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.
Song #62 is It's All in the Game sung by Tommy Edwards. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition entitled "Melody in A Major," written by Charles Dawes, later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only #1 pop single to have been cowritten by a U.S. Vice President.
The song has become a pop standard, with cover versions, some of which have been minor hit singles, by dozens of artists. Edwards' 1958 song ranked at #38 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.
I was 16 when this song was the #1 single. And if you don't understand why it is one of my picks in this series, you probably weren't a teenager in 1950s America, when slow dancing in darkened rooms was a common remedy for raging hormones.
Tommy Edwards - It's All in the Game
§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.
Song #62 is It's All in the Game sung by Tommy Edwards. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition entitled "Melody in A Major," written by Charles Dawes, later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only #1 pop single to have been cowritten by a U.S. Vice President.
The song has become a pop standard, with cover versions, some of which have been minor hit singles, by dozens of artists. Edwards' 1958 song ranked at #38 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.
I was 16 when this song was the #1 single. And if you don't understand why it is one of my picks in this series, you probably weren't a teenager in 1950s America, when slow dancing in darkened rooms was a common remedy for raging hormones.
Tommy Edwards - It's All in the Game
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