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The 1998 animated film "The Prince Of Egypt" had Sally Dworsky and Michelle Pfeiffer singing the original "When You Believe" (Stephen Schwartz). This is from the soundtrack. Singer, songwriter Sally Dworsky acted and/or sang in The Wizard, The Lion King,

Jan (Berry) And Dean (Torrence) first recorded "Dead Man's Curve" (Jan Berry - Roger Christian - Brian Wilson - Artie Cornfeld) for the 1963 LP "Drag City". The actual Dead Man's Curve is real. The hit version of "Dead Man's Curve" was issued as a Jan

Jules Bihari owned Kent Records and had Lowell Fulson on the roster in 1967. Lowell recorded "Tramp" (Lowell Fulson - Jimmy McCracklin) that year and Jules took an initial dislike to the recording. Despite that, the song hit number five on Billboard's

The first musical production from Paramount Pictures was "Innocents Of Paris", a 1929 motion picture that introduced the film's star Maurice Chevalier singing "Louise" (Leo Robin - Richard A. Whiting) with Leonard Joy's orchestra. Maurice topped the

George Goehring, together with Rod MacDonald, Ellen Bukstel and Nicole Yarling perform "Lipstick On Your Collar" (George Goehring - Edna Lewis). George pitched the song personally to Connie Francis during a surprise visit to her New Jersey home where he

Allen Toussaint plays "Brickyard Blues (Play Something Sweet)" (Toussaint) at the 1976 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Allen often used his mother's maiden name Naomi Neville for some of his compositions. Sylvester (James) and The Hot Band

Legendary producer, songwriter, pianist and arranger Allen Toussaint wrote "Mother-in-Law". This is his version recorded at New York City's Bottom Line on February 6, 1987. Allen produced the 1957 Lee Allen hit "Walking With Mr. Lee" and Chris Kenner's "I

The Academy Award winning song "Long Ago (And Far Away)" (Jerome Kern - Ira Gershwin) debuted in the 1944 Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly and Phil Silvers movie musical "Cover Girl". This was Columbia's first Technicolor musical. Martha Mears dubbed Rita

I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor (Fowles) topped the Billboard and U.K. pop charts with "I Will Survive" (Freddie Perren - Dino Frekaris) in 1979. The gay anthem single is from her top ten platinum album "Love Tracks" and was issued as a B side to a cover of

Bobby Goldsboro had "Lizzie And The Rainman" (Kenny O'Dell - Larry Henley) on the 1972 LP "California Wine". Apparently the idea for the song took root after writers Kenny O'Dell or Larry Henley watched the movie "The Rainmaker" and the character named

Fats (Antoine) Domino and long time collaborator Dave (Davis) Bartholomew wrote "Valley Of Tears:" and charted at number eight pop, number two R&B in the summer of 1957. This track is from the LP "This Is Fats" and was the first of his many singles to

You may know this tune as "Beer Barrel Polka", "Roll Out The Barrel" or "The Barrel Polka" (Jaromir Vejvoda). It was written as an instrumental in 1927. This became "Polka Of Modrany" and then "Skoda lasky" (Wasted Love) when lyrics were added by Vaclav

Classic country songwriter Hank Cochran supplied wife Jeannie Seely with the number two Billboard Country hit "Don't Touch Me" in 1966. The Grammy Award winning track inched onto the pop chart and was her first Monument single from the LP "The Seely

Published in 1928 "I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)" (Fred E. Ahlert - Roy Turk) was a hit in 1929 for Aileen Stanley (Muggeridge). Eileen and her elder brother Stanley were a sister/brother vaudeville act known as Stanley and Aileen. When Stanley left

The Bee Gees (Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb) intended their tune "Desire" for the 1978 album "Spirits Having Flown". After weeks of working on it, "Desire" was dropped from the LP. This is the original Barry Gibb demo. During a 1979 session Andy Gibb

It was during the Bee Gees 1977 sessions for "Saturday Night Fever" that Barry Gibb and Bee Gees band member Blue (Derek) Weaver wrote and Barry recorded "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" with brother Maurice. This was not public until the "Bee Gees

Dutch group Focus (Thijs van Leer, Jan Akkerman, Cyril Havermans and Pierre van der Linden) released the LP "Moving Waves" aka "Focus II" in 1971 with "Hocus Pocus" (Thijs van Leer - Jan Akkerman) as the opening track. An edited version was issued as a

Kenny Nolan wrote "A Penny For Your Thoughts" by Marion Jarvis as her second single in 1975. Tavares (Antone, Arthur, Feliciano (father of the four brothers), Perry and Ralph Tavares) covered "A Penny For Your Thoughts" in 1982 on the LP "New

Composers Chips Moman and Bobby Emmons perform "Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)" at The 2010 Songwriters Roundtable at the Dothan Civic Center in Alabama. When the song was written the writers gave the tune to Waylon Jennings because his

The Five Stairsteps (lead vocalist Clarence Jr, Alohe Jean, Dennis, James and Keni Burke) had a good year in 1970 when they recorded "Ooh Child (Things Are Gonna Get Easier)" (Stan Vincent) and reached number eight on the Billboard pop chart and fourteen

Emmy winner, Golden Globe winner and Tony Award winner, singer, actor Richard Kiley was part of the original 1965 Broadway cast recording of "The Man From La Mancha" where he sang "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (Mitch Leigh - Joe Darion). Stage

"Xanadu" as sung by songwriter Jeff Lynne. In 2000 it was recorded for the "All Over The World" compilation. The label refers to the band E.L.O. but it was done in studio by Jeff Lynne on vocals, guitars, bass and drums with Marc Mann on keyboards. Other

The duo of (Mike) Shepstone and (Peter) Dibbens released "Please Tell Her" (Shepstone - Dibbens) as a B side in 1974. Glen Campbell's first daughter, Debbie once sang with the Oklahoma band Buckwheat. Solo she issued "Please Tell Him That I Said Hello"

This version of Paul Williams "The Family Of Man" (Paul Williams - Jack Conrad) is from the 1974 LP "A Little Bit Of Love". Three Dog Night's (Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, Cory Wells) 1972 hit "The Family Of Man" came from the previous year's album

Ray Nobles Orchestra with vocalist Val Rosing and the only song Val recorded with this orchestra. They first recorded "Try A Little Tenderness"(Jimmy Campbell - Red Connelly - Harry M. Woods) in 1932. The song was edited here to include the vocal. After

Demetriss Tapp released "Ring Dang Doo" (Robert F. Tubert - Joy Byers) in 1964. Demetriss was once dubbed "the white Tina Turner" even though she is essentially a Country artist. Sam The Sham (Domingo Samudio) and The Pharaohs' (originally: Russell

The American Quartet (lead vocalist Billy Murray, John Bieling, William Hooley and Steve Porter) recorded "Billy (She Always Dreams Of Bill)" (Joe Goodwin - James Kendis - Herman Paley) when the song was published in 1911. Lead singer Billy Murray

The 2013 Rock Meets Classics Tour was recorded at The Big Box in Kempten, Germany with composer Eric Bazilian, a founding member of The Hooters, singing his song "One Of Us". Eric has said "I wrote that song one night, the quickest song I ever wrote, to