Stand By Your Man

CARLA BRUNI

SONGWRITERS:  BILLY SHERRILL / TAMMY WYNETTE

PAIS: FRANCE 

ALBUM: FRENCH TOUCH

LABEL: TEOREMA & BARCLAY

      GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 2017

 

         Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi Sarkozy (Turim, 23 de dezembro de 1967), é uma supermodelo, cantora, compositora e atriz italiana, de ascendência francesa.

            Desde 2008 está casada com o 23.° presidente da França, Nicolas Sarkozy, tendo sido a primeira-dama do país até 2012.

      Nascida no norte da Itália, Carla sempre foi apaixonada por música desde a infância, devido à influência de sua mãe, visto que é filha da pianista Marisa Borini, que era casada com Alberto Bruni Tedeschi, um colecionador de artes, dono de indústrias e também compositor de música clássica.

 Carla, apesar de ser italiana, possui ascendência francesa, visto que sua avó materna era francesa e imigrou para a Itália no início do século XX. A artista é oriunda de uma família ligada à CEAT (fábrica italiana de pneus) e à ENI (petrolífera italiana, outrora estatal), Bruni foi com os pais e os irmãos para um exílio na França em 1975, fugindo das Brigadas Vermelhas, organização terrorista de cunho marxista que recorreu a sequestros e assassinatos naquele período da história italiana. Passou a infância em Paris e  a adolescência      em Berna, na Suíça. Aos 18 anos voltou a viver na França, onde iniciou o curso de moda na Universidade de Sorbonne, não tendo concluído por opção.

      Carla é a filha mais nova. Seus irmãos são: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, nascida em 1966, e Virgínio Bruni Tedeschi, nascido em 1959, que faleceu em julho de 2006, por um conjunto de doenças oportunistas decorrentes do HIV, o que abalou toda a família.

            Devido a uma reportagem da revista Vanity Fair, ficou-se sabendo que Carla Bruni descobriu, em 1996, não ser filha do homem que sempre acreditou ser seu pai. Acabou sabendo por sua mãe que seu pai biológico é o empresário italiano, que vive no Brasil desde os anos 1970, Maurizio Remmert. "Quando [o pai que a criou] estava doente, Marisa [sua mãe] contou a Carla quem era seu pai. Foi uma conversa de adultas, entre mãe e filha", afirmou Maurizio, Carla cuidou de seu pai no leito de morte, e descobriu que desde sua adolescência ele havia descoberto não ser o seu pai biológico, mas que perdoou a traição de sua mãe para ficar perto de seus filhos. Com o tempo, Carla conseguiu perdoar a mãe por tê-lhe escondido essa informação. Ela descobriu que seu pai biológico sempre soube da verdade, mas por insistência de sua mãe em permanecer casada, pediu que ele fosse embora, pois, segundo sua mãe, não haveria possibilidade de futuro na relação dos dois, que foi casual e resultou numa gravidez inesperada. Na época sua mãe tinha 32 anos, pianista, casada e com dois filhos, e seu pai biológico era um estudante universitário de apenas 19 anos sem emprego fixo. Além de descobrir que seus dois irmãos na verdade são seus meio-irmãos maternos, descobriu também possuir uma meia-irmã paterna, chamada Consuelo Remmert.

              French Touch is the fifth studio album by Italian-French singer Carla Bruni, released on 6 October 2017 by Teorema and Barclay.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman

Givin' all your love to just one man

You'll have the bad times

And he'll have the good times

Doing things that you don't understand

But if you love him, you'll forgive him

Even though he's hard to understand, mm, mm

And if you love him, oh, be proud of him

'Cause after all, he's just a man

Stand by your man

Give him two arms to cling to

And something warm to come to

When nights are cold and lonely

Stand by your man

And show the world you love him

Keep giving all the love you can, mm, mm

Stand by your man, hmm, hmm

Stand by your man (Ooh, ooh)

And show the world you love him (Ooh, ooh)

Keep giving all the love you can

Stand by your man, mm, mm, mm

IT’S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW

CÉLINE DION

SONGWRITER: JIM STEINMAN

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: FALLING INTO YOU

LABEL: 550 MUSIC

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 1996

 

      Céline Marie Claudette Dion (/seɪˌliːn diˈɒn/say-LEEN dee-ON; born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. Noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals, Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist, and the best-selling French-language artist of all time. Her music has incorporated genres such as pop, rock, R&B, gospel, and classical music. Her recordings since have been mainly in English and French, although she has also sung in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Chinese.

        Born into a large family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in her home country with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s. She gained international recognition by winning the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, where she represented Switzerland with "Ne partez pas sans moi". After learning to speak English, she signed with Epic Records in the United States. Her debut English-language album, Unison(1990), established her as a viable pop artist primarily in North America and several English-speaking markets, while The Colour of My Love(1993) gave her global superstardom.

      Falling into You is the fourth English-language and fourteenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released on 11 March 1996 by Columbia/Epic Records. The follow-up to her commercially successful album The Colour of My Love(1993) and French-language D'eux(1995), Falling into You showed a further progression of Dion's music. Throughout the project she collaborated with Jim Steinman, who wrote and produced "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", among others. Several songs were produced by David Foster, including Diane Warren's "Because You Loved Me". In total, Dion worked on the album with fourteen producers and a variety of songwriters and musicians.

    Falling into You won many awards around the world, including two Grammy awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album at the 39th annual ceremony, during which Dion performed live. In April 1997, she also won three World Music Awards for World's Best Selling Artist of the Year, World's Best Selling Pop Artist of the Year and World's Best Selling Canadian Artist of the Year. The album is on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Definitive 200 list.

       Falling into You became Dion's best-selling album and one of the best-selling albums in history, with sales of more than 32 million copies worldwide, including twelve million copies in the US, over two million in the United Kingdom, and over one million in Germany, France, Canada and Australia. In Europe, it has sold over nine million units. It topped the charts around the world, including number one in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Australia and many more. It became one of the best-selling albums of 1996 and 1997 in various countries and also one of the top-selling albums of the decade. It was certified Diamond, Multi-Platinum, Platinum and Gold around the world.

There were nights when the wind was so cold

That my body froze in bed

If I just listened to it right outside the window

There were days when the sun was so cruel

That all the tears turned to dust

And I just knew my eyes were drying up forever

I finished crying in the instant that you left

And I can't remember where or when or how

And I banished every memory you and I had ever made

 

But when you touch me like this

And you hold me like that

I just have to admit

That it's all coming back to me

When I touch you like this

And I hold you like that

It's so hard to believe but

It's all coming back to me

It's all coming back

It's all coming back to me now

There were moments of gold

And there were flashes of light

There were things I'd never do again

But then they'd always seemed right

There were nights of endless pleasure

It was more than any laws allow

 

Baby, baby

If I kiss you like this

And if you whisper like that

It was lost long ago

But it's all coming back to me

If you want me like this

And if you need me like that

It was dead long ago

But it's all coming back to me

It's so hard to resist

And it's all coming back to me

I can barely recall

But it's all coming back to me now

 

But it's all coming back

 

There were those empty threats and hollow lies

And whenever you tried to hurt me

I just hurt you even worse and so much deeper

There were hours that just went on for days

When alone at last we'd count up all the chances

That were lost to us forever (Forever)

 

But you were history with the slamming of the door

And I made myself so strong again somehow

And I never wasted any of my time on you since then

But if I touch you like this

And if you kiss me like that

It was so long ago

But it's all coming back to me

If you touch me like this

And if I kiss you like that

It was gone with the wind

But it's all coming back to me

 

It's all coming back, it's all coming back to me now

There were moments of gold

And there were flashes of light

There were things we'd never do again

But then they'd always seemed right

There were nights of endless pleasure

It was more than all your laws allow

 

Baby, baby, baby

When you touch me like this

And when you hold me like that

It was gone with the wind

But it's all coming back to me

When you see me like this

And when I see you like that

Then we see what we want to see

All coming back to me

The flesh and the fantasies

All coming back to me

I can barely recall

But it's all coming back to me now

 

If you forgive me all this

If I forgive you all that

We forgive and forget

And it's all coming back to me now

 

When you see me like this

And when I see you like that

Then we see what we want to see

All coming back to me

The flesh and the fantasies

All coming back to me

I can barely recall

But it's all coming back to me now

 

And when you kiss me like this

(It's all coming back to me now)

And when I touch you like that

(It's all coming back to me now)

And if you do it like this

(It's all coming back to me now)

And if we.

YOU’RE CLOSER TO ME

JONATHAN POTENCIANO

SONGWRITERS: PETER GOEMAS & RONALD BRIDGES

COUNTRY: PHILIPPINE

ALBUM: THEN AND NOW

LABEL: JOHNATHAN POTENCIANO

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 2019

 

       Jonathan Potenciano (Lead vocals, guitar) is an international musician starting from the Philippines to Hawaii and is now one of Las Vegas’s favorites for almost 20 years. With Jonathan’s deep rich vocal ability he will capture your heart on tunes by Elton John, Luther Vandross, Lionel Ritchie, and his favorite Frank Sinatra. Jonathan’s voice is truly amazing and will captivate you every time he sings!

       Jonathan has recorded and released more than 120 songs (forty five singles and five albums). Obviously a hit on records, Jonathan is an international known STAR of the highest magnitude.

       Having worked the Las Vegas circuit, Jonathan knows what it takes to keep you entertained. With music from Frank Sinantra, Neil Diamond, Ray Charles & Stevie Wonder to the Backstreet Boys, Black Eyed Peas, The Eagles, Maroon 5, Justin Timberlake, Enrique Iglesias, and The Beatles – Jonathan & MusicMagic have an incredible choreography they complete each performance having taken you from the 50’s all the way to the top music of 2007 for any age group to enjoy.

You're closer to me

Than the shore is to the waves of the sea

Than a leaf is to a bow of a tree

Oh my love, no one else can be closer to me

You're closer by far

Than a moonbeam to the light of a star

Than your laughter to the place where you are

Oh my love stay as close ever closer to me

Everyday

Let me be closer to you

Far away

I couldn't live a day through

Though they say

People in love can be blind

With every new moment I find

You're closer to me

Than a bird is to the air as it flies

Than the tears are to a child when it cries

And when I see the sky high above

Then I pray that as close as we grow

We would show to the world that we know

Just how close we can be

Now we found true love

Then I pray that as close as we grow

We would show to the world that we know

Just how close we can be

Now we found true love.

THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG

NOUVELLE VAGUE (HELENA NOGUERRA)

SONGWRITERS: JOHN LYDON; KEITH LEVENE & MARTIN CLIVE ATKINS

COUNTRY: FRANCE/BELGIUM

ALBUM: NOUVELLE VAGUE

LABEL: PEACEFROG RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 2004

 

    Nouvelle Vague is a French cover band led by musicians Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin. Their name means "new wave" in French, and refers simultaneously to the French New Wave cinema movement of the 1960s, to the new wave music movement of the 1970s and 1980s, which provides many of the songs that the band covers, and to bossa nova(Portuguese for "new wave"), a musical style that the band frequently uses in its arrangements.

    The group's recordings and live performances have featured a large rotating cast of mostly female vocalists. Several of the artists who have performed with the band have also had successful solo careers, including Camille, Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain, and Nadéah Miranda.

      Nouvelle Vague is the debut studio album by the French band Nouvelle Vague. It was first released on 9 August 2004 on Peacefrog Records.

      The album consists entirely of easy listening and bossa nova versions of songs that were written and recorded during the post-punk/new wave era. The band's name is a play on words, new wave and bossa nova being the literal translations, in English and Portuguese respectively, of the French phrase Nouvelle Vague, which is itself a reference to the French cinema movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The songs were recorded with female vocalists who had not previously heard the songs they would be covering.

        Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux began work on the project in 2003, after Collin had the idea of covering Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in a bossa nova style. Libaux later explained: "I met Marc Collin during the 90's, at a friend's place. Marc was the first musician I met in years who I could talk [to] about new wave music. For some reason, at the end of the 80's, punk and new wave music had turned into a sort of old-fashioned music, which nobody was talking about anymore. Meeting Marc, I could talk about The Stranglers, The Cure and The Sisters of Mercy again. We then have worked on a couple of albums he was producing ... Starting Nouvelle Vague was sounding obvious for us, as our ideas were matching, and the songs were happening well and quickly." The album was produced and recorded over a period of eight months.

This is not a love song

Happy to have, not to have not

Big business is very wise

I'm crossing over into

Enterprise

 

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

 

I'm adaptable now, I like my new role

I'm getting better and better

I have a new goal, I'm changing my ways

Where money applies, this is not a love song

 

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

 

I'm going over to the other side

I'm happy to have not to have not

Big business is very wise

I'm inside free enterprise

 

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

 

That television, behind the curtain

Out of the cupboard, you take the first train

Into the big world, are you ready to grab the candle?

That tunnel vision

 

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song.

MAY EACH DAY

ANDY WILLIAMS

SONGWRITER: George Wyle & Mort Greene

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DAYS OF WINW AND ROSES AND OTHER TV REQESTS

LABEL: CBS RECORD

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 1966

 

    Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which fifteen have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, along with numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy awards. He sold more than 45 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States.

      Williams was active in the music industry for over 70 years until his death in 2012.

      "May Each Day" is a song written by George Wyle and Mort Green and performed by Andy Williams. The song reached #19 in the UK in 1966. The song originally appeared on his 1963 album Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests.

        The song was often used to close his shows, such as The Andy Williams Show, where he sang "...May each day of your life be a good day, and good night." The song was also played during his memorial service.

May each day in the week be a good day

May the Lord always watch over you

And may all of your hopes turn to wishes

And may all of your wishes come true

 

May each day in the month be a good day

May you make friends with each one you meet

And may all of your daydreams be mem'ries

And may all of your mem'ries be sweet

 

The weeks turn to months and the months into Years

There'll be sadness and joy, there'll be laughter and tears

But one thing I pray to heaven above

May each of your days be a day full of love

 

May each day in the year be a good day

May each dawn find you happy and gay

And may all of your days be as lovely

As the one you shared with me today

May each day of your life be a good day

And good night.

ACROSS THE WAY

JONATHAN POTENCIANO

SONGWRITERS: Carl Sigman; Hans Bradtke & James Last

COUNTRY: PHILIPPINES

ALBUM: THEN AND NOW

LABEL: JONATHAN POTENCIANO

GENRE: SEASONAL/EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 2019

 

       Originally from Manila in the Philippines, I have been living in Las Vegas for over 30 years now. 

       In those 30 years, I was a business owner of my own band, most recently called JAMM, and we performed all over Vegas and the world until it ended on March 14, 2020, the last performance date at the Paris Hotel & Casino when all our gigs were cancelled due to Covid - 19.   Like everyone else around the world, we were caught completely off guard.  Needless to say, I had to find another way to make money and stay creative because LIVE music was non-existent.  Outside of music I was building a travel club business.  Which I absolutely loved!  But, of course,

        Covid -19 took that out at the same time. 

NOTE: WHEN I DISCOVERED THIS VOICE, I WAS IN LOVE WITH ITS SOFTNESS. THAT'S WHY I PROUDLY INCLUDE IT ON MY BLOGG

       ALMOST ALL THE SONGS ON THE BLOGG ARE PICKED BY ME

I shared the golden sun with her,

In days that are no more.

I used to love to run with her

Along the sandy shore.

She had a special prayer for me

To help my world go right.

Her hand was always there for me

The coldest winter night.

 

I hear the music from across the way,

Across the bridges of my mind.

I lift the misty shades of yesterday

To catch the dreams I left behind.

 

It was a joy to be with her,

To watch the way she smiled.

I guess I just felt free with her,

So free and young and wild.

I really came to love that girl;

How much she'll never know.

I need the nearness of that girl;

I really miss her so.

 

I hear the music from across the way,

Across the bridges of my mind.

I lift the misty shades of yesterday

To catch the dreams I left behind.

HONEY

RAY CONNIFF

SONGWRITER: BOBBY RUSSALL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: HONEY

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 1968

 

       Joseph Raymond Conniff(November 6, 1916–October 12, 2002) was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.

       Honey is an album by Ray Conniff and The Singers. It was released in 1968 on the Columbia label (catalog nº CS-9661).

    The album debuted on Billboard magazine's "Top LPs" chart on July 27, 1968, peaked at Nº. 22, and remained on that chart for nine weeks. It was certified by the RIAA as a gold record. It was also Conniff's last album to make the Top 40 on the Billboard album chart.

       AllMusic later gave the album a rating of three stars. Reviewer William Ruhlmann wrote: "Fans of the original songs may have found the results disconcerting on occasion, but Conniff was aiming at a less-discerning audience that could have hummed along when hearing the songs on the radio without paying close attention to the words." 

See the tree, how big it's grown

But friend it hasn't been too long

It wasn't big

I laughed at her and she got mad

The first day that she planted it, was just a twig

Then the first snow came

And she ran out to brush the snow away

So it wouldn't die

Came runnin' in all excited

Slipped and almost hurt herself

And I laughed till I cried

She was always young at heart

Kinda dumb and kinda smart and I loved her so

And I surprised her with a puppy

Kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago

And it would sure embarrass her

When I came in from workin' late

'Cause I would know

That she'd been sittin' there and cryin'

Cryin'over some sad and silly late, late show

 

And honey, I miss you

And I'm bein' good

And I'd love to be with you

If only I could

 

She wrecked the car and she was sad

And so afraid that I'd be mad

But what the heck

Though I pretended hard to be

Guess you could say she saw through me

And hugged my neck

I came home unexpectedly

And caught her cryin' needlessly

In the middle of the day

And it was in the early Spring

When flowers bloom and robins sing

She went away

 

And honey, I miss you

And I'm bein' good

And I'd love to be with you

If only I could

 

One day while I was not at home

While she was there and all alone

The angels came

Now all I have is memories of Honey

And I wake up nights and call her name

Now my life's an empty stage

Where Honey lived and Honey played

And love grew up

And a small cloud passes overhead

And cries down on the flower bed

That Honey loved

 

And see the tree how big it's grown

But friend it hasn't been too long

It wasn't big

And I laughed at her and she got mad

The first day that she planted it, was just a twig.

I THINK OF YOU

JONATHAN POTENCIANO

Songwriter: JONATHAN POTENCIANO

Country: philippine

ÁLBUM: THEN AND NOW

LABEL: D’SWAN RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 2019

 

           Jonathan Potenciano (Lead vocals, guitar) is an international musician starting from the Philippines to Hawaii and is now one of Las Vegas’s favorites for almost 20 years. With Jonathan’s deep rich vocal ability he will capture your heart on tunes by Elton John, Luther Vandross, Lionel Ritchie, and his favorite Frank Sinatra. Jonathan’s voice is truly amazing and will captivate you every time he sings!

Jonathan has recorded and released more than 120 songs (forty five singles and five albums). Obviously a hit on records, Jonathan is an international known STAR of the highest magnitude.

         Having worked the Las Vegas circuit, Jonathan knows what it takes to keep you entertained. With music from Frank Sinantra, Neil Diamond, Ray Charles & Stevie Wonder to the Backstreet Boys, Black Eyed Peas, The Eagles, Maroon 5, Justin Timberlake, Enrique Iglesias, and The Beatles – Jonathan & MusicMagic have an incredible choreography they complete each performance having taken you from the 50’s all the way to the top music of 2007 for any age group to enjoy.

When Im alone at night,

And theres no one to comfort me,

I think of you…

And suddenly my pillow is your face and your arms.

And when the winter wind comes chasin after me,

I think of you…

And its as though I crawl beneath the blanket

soft and warm.

 

How did I get from dark to daylight,

Before you happened to pass by?

How did I find my way through life,

Before you brightened up my sky?

Was there a sky at all,

Until you painted it for me?

How did I get on,

Till you came along?

 

Who knows how many times I pause in every day,

To think of you?

As often as the sun sails out upon the silent sea!

And if youre wonderin why it is I only think of you,

Well its because Id like to be as close to you,

As youve become to me!

I think of you…

I think of you…

SHADOWS

GIOVANNI MARRADI/INSTRUMENTAL

SONGWRITER: GIOVANNI MARRADI

COUNTRY: ITALIANXU. S. A.

ALBUM: LOVER’S RENDEZVOUS

LABEL: DAMIAN MUSIC

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 1999

 

       Giovanni Marradi is an American composer, pianist, arranger and TV presenter who was born in 1952 in Italy. is a composer, pianist, arranger and television presenter. He is the son of Italian trumpeter and conductor Alfredo Marradi; his great-grandfather, also named Giovanni Marradi, was a poet and composer.

        Giovanni began playing piano at age five, and three years later was sent to study composition and technique with Michael Cheskinov at the Russian Conservatory. As a young adult, he played throughout Europe and the Middle East, but his dream was to come to the U.S. to pursue his music career. After arriving in California as an Italian immigrant, Giovanni played small concerts in Southern California and was asked to perform at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Giovanni became one of the most successful expressionist pianists of our time, as well as a composer, arranger, recording artist, inventor and illustrator. Among his accomplishments, he sold 120,000 CDs in one two-hour segment on the QVC shopping channel. Another record that still stands as one of his outstanding achievements in the music industry is selling over four million CDs during his appearances on QVC and the Home Shopping Network.

       Giovanni produced, directed and hosted Giovanni's World of Music, a 28-episode television music series broadcast on stations around the world and distributed by Warner Brothers Television. Both the series and Giovanni himself have been nominated for and received several awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Telly Awards, EMA and the New York Festivals. His concert specials on PBS are still being aired. Giovanni has recorded over 130 CDs and two DVDs from his televised specials.

       In 1995, he formed his own label, NewCastle Records. He released over 60 titles with NewCastle before signing with Atlantic Records in 1998, making his label debut, Destiny.

         Giovanni's álbum Because I Love You won Best New Age CD of the year in Spain for 2010. In November 2015, he performed a sold-out concert in Beijing, China at the Great Hall of the People to rave reviews. Giovanni's concert at the Great Hall drew much attention and he recently returned to China for a twenty city concert tour while giving Master Classes for the children in every city on the tour during Feb/March of 2019.

TRUE LOVE

BING CROSBY GRACE KELLY

SONGWRITER: COLE PORTER

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: HIGH SOCIETY

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 1956

 

        Grace Patricia Kelly(November 12, 1929–September 14, 1982) was an American film actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956.

          After graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1949, she began appearing in New York City theatrical productions and over 40 live drama productions broadcast in early 1950s Golden Age of Television. Kelly gained stardom from her performance in John Ford's adventure-romance Mogambo (1953), starring Clark Gable and Ava Gardner, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the drama The Country Girl(1954) with Bing Crosby. Other notable works include the western High Noon(1952) with Gary Cooper, the romance-comedy High Society(1956) with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, and three consecutive Alfred Hitchcock suspense thrillers: Dial M for Murder(1954) with Ray Milland, Rear Window (1954) with James Stewart, and To Catch a Thief(1955) with Cary Grant.

        Kelly retired from acting at age 26 to marry Rainier, and she began her duties as Princess of Monaco. Hitchcock hoped that she would appear in more of his films which required an "icy blonde" lead actress, but he was unable to coax her out of retirement. The Prince and Princess had three children: Princess Caroline, Prince Albert, and Princess Stéphanie. Princess Grace retained her link to America by her dual U.S. and Monégasque citizenship. Her charity work focused on young children and the arts, establishing the Princess Grace Foundation to support local artisans in 1964. Her organization for children's rights, AMADE Mondiale, gained consultive status within UNICEF and UNESCO. She died aged 52 at Monaco Hospital on September 14, 1982, from the injuries sustained in her car crash the previous day. She is listed 13th among the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars of Classical Hollywood Cinema. Her son, Prince Albert, helped establish the Princess Grace Awards in 1984 to recognize emerging performers in film, theatre, and dance.

         Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903–October 14, 1977) was an American singer-songwriter comedian and actor. The first multimedia star, Crosby was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1930 to 1954. He made over seventy feature films and recorded more than 1.600 songs.

    His early career coincided with recording innovations that allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that influenced many male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Dick Haymes, Elvis Presley, and John Lennon.

          Yank magazine said that he was "the person who had done the most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII:6 Also in 1948, Music Digest estimated that his recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.

          Crosby won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Going My Way(1944), and was nominated for its sequel The Bells of St. Mary's(1945) opposite Ingrid Bergman, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. He was also known for his collaborations with longtime friend Bob Hope, starring in the Road to... films from 1940 to 1962.

      Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to America by John T. Mullin, he invested $50,000 in a California electronics company called Ampex to build copies. He then convinced ABC to allow him to tape his shows. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape.

       Through the medium of recording, he constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) used in motion picture production, a practice that became an industry standard. In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.

          "True Love" is a popular song written by Cole Porter and was published in 1956. The song was introduced by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in the musical film High Society. "True Love" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Kelly's contribution on the record is relatively minor, duetting with Crosby on only the final chorus. Nonetheless, the single is co-credited to her.

Sun-tanned, Wind-blown

Honeymooners at last alone.

Feeling far above par.

Oh, how lucky we are!

While

 

I give to you and you give to me,

True love, true love.

So on and on it'll always be,

True love, true love.

For you and I

Have a guardian angel on high,

With nothin' to do.

But to give to you and to give to me,

Love forever true.

 

For you and I

Have a guardian angel on high,

With nothin' to do.

But to give to you and to give to me,

Love forever true.

Love forever true.