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"They All Laughed" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, written for the 1937 film Shall We Dance where it was introduced by Ginger Rogers as part of a song and dance routine with Fred Astaire. The lyrics compare those who "laughed at me, wanting you" with those who laughed at some of history's famous scientific and industrial pioneers, asking, "Who's got the last laugh now?" People and advances mentioned are Christopher Columbus's proof the earth is round; Thomas Edison's phonograph; Guglielmo Marconi's wireless telegraphy; the Wright brothers's first flight; the Rockefeller Center; Eli Whitney's cotton gin; Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat; Milton S. Hershey's Hershey bar chocolate; and Henry Ford's "Tin Lizzy" Model T car.
Shall We Dance, released in 1937, is the seventh of the ten Astaire-Rogers musical comedy films. The idea for the film originated in the studio's desire to exploit the successful formula created by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart with their 1936 Broadway hit On Your Toes. The musical featured an American dancer getting involved with a touring Russian ballet company. In a major coup for RKO, Pandro Berman managed to attract the Gershwins – George Gershwin who wrote the symphonic underscore and Ira Gershwin the lyrics – to score this, their second Hollywood musical after Delicious in 1931.
"They All Laughed" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, written for the 1937 film Shall We Dance where it was introduced by Ginger Rogers as part of a song and dance routine with Fred Astaire. The lyrics compare those who "laughed at me, wanting you" with those who laughed at some of history's famous scientific and industrial pioneers, asking, "Who's got the last laugh now?" People and advances mentioned are Christopher Columbus's proof the earth is round; Thomas Edison's phonograph; Guglielmo Marconi's wireless telegraphy; the Wright brothers's first flight; the Rockefeller Center; Eli Whitney's cotton gin; Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat; Milton S. Hershey's Hershey bar chocolate; and Henry Ford's "Tin Lizzy" Model T car.
Shall We Dance, released in 1937, is the seventh of the ten Astaire-Rogers musical comedy films. The idea for the film originated in the studio's desire to exploit the successful formula created by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart with their 1936 Broadway hit On Your Toes. The musical featured an American dancer getting involved with a touring Russian ballet company. In a major coup for RKO, Pandro Berman managed to attract the Gershwins – George Gershwin who wrote the symphonic underscore and Ira Gershwin the lyrics – to score this, their second Hollywood musical after Delicious in 1931.
![Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out with Him? (2002) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8Xtaxzhr1LM/mqdefault.jpg "Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out with Him? (2002) [Restored]
Is She Really Going Out with Him? is the first single released by British musician Joe Jackson in September 1978. The track, which was to achieve greater commercial success when reissued in 1979, was included on Jacksons debut album, Look Sharp!.
Recorded live in 2002.")
![Cliff Richard - Congratulations (1968) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8bZg3TJOUuI/mqdefault.jpg "Cliff Richard - Congratulations (1968) [Restored]
Congratulations is a song recorded by British singer Cliff Richard. The song was written by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter. It is best known as the British entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, held in London.")
![Gérard Lenorman - La Ballade Des Gens Heureux (1975) [Digitally Enhanced]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/93APUu0BQNQ/mqdefault.jpg "Gérard Lenorman - La Ballade Des Gens Heureux (1975) [Digitally Enhanced]
La Ballade des gens heureux (translation: The Ballad of the Happy People) is a song by Gérard Lenorman, released in 1975. English singer and songwriter Jonathan King wrote the British lyrics and had a hit with it as The Happy People Song.")
![Roger Glover and Friends Featuring: Ronnie James Dio - Love is All (1975) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9ESZWK8pA6A/mqdefault.jpg "Roger Glover and Friends Featuring: Ronnie James Dio - Love is All (1975) [Restored]
Love Is All is a 1975 pop song, credited to Roger Glover & Friends in the credits, but in reality sung by Ronnie James Dio. It was featured on Glovers solo album The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshoppers Feast and was a number one-hit in the Netherlands and Belgium.
The song was notable for its music video, which featured an animated cartoon starring a guitar-playing frog.")
![Blondie - The Tide Is High (1980) [Digitally Enhanced]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9anlT-LQZ3o/mqdefault.jpg "Blondie - The Tide Is High (1980) [Digitally Enhanced]
The Tide Is High is a 1967 song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group The Paragons, with Holt as lead singer. The song gained international attention in 1980 when a reggae version by the American band Blondie became a US/UK number one hit.
The music video (using the single edit version) was produced, directed by Hart Perry.")
![Bee Gees - Words [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AMVmHD3Tt9o/mqdefault.jpg "Bee Gees - Words [Restored]
Words is a song by the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb. The song reached No. 1 in Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands.
Words was the Bee Gees third UK top 10 hit, reaching number 8, and in a UK television special on ITV in December 2011 it was voted fourth in The Nations Favourite Bee Gees Song. The song has been recorded by many other artists, including hit versions by Rita Coolidge in 1978 and Boyzone in 1996. This was Boyzones fifth single and their first number one hit in the UK.
Recorded live at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 1997.")
![The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again (1974) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AewGIIykcig/mqdefault.jpg "The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again (1974) [Restored]
When Will I See You Again is a song released in 1974 by American soul group The Three Degrees, from their third album The Three Degrees. The song was written and produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Sheila Ferguson sang the lead, accompanied by Fayette Pinkney and Valerie Holiday.
It was one of the most successful recordings of the Philly Soul era. In the U.S., the song reached #1 on the adult contemporary chart, #2 on the pop singles chart, and #4 on the R&B chart in the autumn of 1974. In the UK, it fared even better, spending two weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in August 1974. The Three Degrees performed the song at Prince Charles 30th birthday party at Buckingham Palace in 1978.
Sheila Ferguson recalled that the song was played to me by Kenny Gamble at the piano in 1973 and I threw a tantrum. I screamed and yelled and said I would never sing it. I thought it was ridiculously insulting to be given such a simple song and that it took no talent to sing it. We did do it and several million copies later, I realized that he knew more than me. She would later have a #60 hit with a solo remake of the track in 1994. The song is unique in that every sentence is a question, heightening the overall effect and emotion. In the film Kill Bill: Volume 2, Bill cites this song as his favorite soul song of the 70s.
Billboard named the song #67 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.")
![Fred Astaire - Id Rather Lead a Band [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AkAQQTm4sU0/mqdefault.jpg "Fred Astaire - Id Rather Lead a Band [Restored]
A song from the film Follow the Fleet.
Follow the Fleet (RKO) is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their fifth collaboration as dance partners. It also features Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable also appear, in supporting roles. The film was directed by Mark Sandrich with script by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor based on the 1922 play Shore Leave by Hubert Osborne.")
