GLEE CAST - FAITHFULY

FAITHFULLY

GLEE CAST

SONGWRITER: JONATHAN CAIN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: GLEE THE MUSIC, THR COMPLETE SEASON ONE

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2010

 

       Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States from May 19, 2009, to March 20, 2015. It centers on the glee club New Directions at the fictional William McKinley High School which competes as a show choir while its disparate members deal with social issues, especially regarding sexuality, race, relationships, and teamwork.

      The initial twelve-member cast included Matthew Morrison as a club director and Spanish teacher Will Schuester, Jane Lynch as cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, Jayma Mays as guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury, Jessalyn Gilsig as Will's wife Terri, and the eight original club members, including Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray, a cheerleader whose biggest struggle was her teen pregnancy; Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel, who struggles with his sexuality and is bullied at school; Kevin McHale as Artie Abrams, who struggles with his disability; Lea Michele as Rachel Berry, the 'best' singer in glee club whose dream is to become a Broadway theatre star; Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson, the star quarterback; Amber Riley as Mercedes Jones, who struggles with racism; Mark Salling as Noah Puckerman, a teenage delinquent; and Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina Cohen-Chang, who also struggles with racism and her relationships. The main cast was altered throughout the series.

          The series was created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, the latter of whom first conceived of Glee as a film. The three wrote all of the show's episodes for the first two seasons, and Murphy and Falchuk initially served as the show's main directors. The pilot episode was broadcast on May 19, 2009, and the first season aired from September 9, 2009, to June 8, 2010. Subsequent seasons aired in September through May. The sixth and final season aired from January to March 2015. Glee features on-screen performance-based musical numbers that were selected by Murphy, who aimed to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits, and produced by Adam Anders and Peer Åström. Songs covered in the show were released through the iTunes Store during the week of broadcast, and a series of Glee albums have been released by Columbia Records. The music of Glee has been a commercial success, with over 36 million digital single sales and eleven million album sales worldwide through October 2011. The series' merchandise also includes DVD and Blu-ray releases, na iPad application, and karaoke games for the Wii home videogame console. There were live concert tours by the show's cast after the first and second seasons completed shooting; a concert film based on the 2011 tour, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, was produced by Murphy and Fox and directed by Kevin Tancharoen.

         During its first season, Glee received generally favorable reviews from critics, with Metacritic's weighted average of 77 out of 100 based on 18 critical reviews. The season was nominated for 19 Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, six Satellite Awards and 57 other awards, with wins including the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy, and Emmy awards for Jane Lynch, guest-star Neil Patrick Harris and Murphy's direction of the pilot episode. In 2011, the show once again won the Golden Globe for Best Television Series, and Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer won Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively, and Gwyneth Paltrow won the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. The show was also chosen by Fox to fill the coveted time slot that followed the network's coverage of Super Bowl XLV in 2011.

        In 2013, in the wake of the death of Cory Monteith, and after his tribute episode "The Quarterback" aired, Murphy announced that the sixth season would be the final one of the series. After 121 episodes and over 729 music performances, Glee ended on March 20, 2015.

Highway run

into the midnight sun

Wheels go round and round

You're on my mind

 

Restless hearts sleep alone tonight

Sending all my love along the wire

 

They say that the road ain't no place to start a family

Right down the line it's been you and me

And loving a music man ain't always what it's supposed to be

 

Oh, boy, you stand by me

I'm forever yours

Faithfully

 

Circus life under the big top world

We all need the clowns to make us smile

 

Through space and time

Always another show

Wondering where I am lost without you

 

And being apart ain't easy on this love affair

Two strangers learn to fall in love again

I get the joy of rediscovering you

 

Oh, girl, you stand by me!

I'm forever yours

Faithfully

 

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Faithfully

I'm still yours

I'm still yours

I'm still yours

Faithfully.