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House of Flying Daggers is a 2004 wuxia romance film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi, and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Unlike other wuxia films, it is more of a love story than purely a martial arts film.
The film opened in limited release within the United States on 3 December 2004, in New York City and Los Angeles, and opened on additional screens throughout the country two weeks later. The film grossed $11,050,094 in the United States box office, and then went on to significantly overperform in the home video market in the United States.
The film was chosen as China's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the year 2004, but was not nominated in that category; however, it received a nomination for the 2004's Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
House of Flying Daggers is a 2004 wuxia romance film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi, and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Unlike other wuxia films, it is more of a love story than purely a martial arts film.
The film opened in limited release within the United States on 3 December 2004, in New York City and Los Angeles, and opened on additional screens throughout the country two weeks later. The film grossed $11,050,094 in the United States box office, and then went on to significantly overperform in the home video market in the United States.
The film was chosen as China's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the year 2004, but was not nominated in that category; however, it received a nomination for the 2004's Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
![Diana Ross - Endless Love (July, 21, 1983) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pjmvtzfeFDM/mqdefault.jpg "Diana Ross - Endless Love (July, 21, 1983) [Restored]
Recorded on July 21, 1983, Central Park, New York.
Endless Love is a song written by Lionel Richie and originally recorded as a duet between Richie and fellow R&B singer Diana Ross. In this ballad, the singers declare their endless love for one another. It was covered by R&B singer Luther Vandross with fellow R&B singer Mariah Carey and also by country music singer Shania Twain. Richies friend (and sometimes co-worker) Kenny Rogers has also recorded the song. Billboard has named the original version as the greatest song duet of all-time.
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![Wim Sonneveld - Zo Heerlijk Rustig (1963) (La chansonnette) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pyGIUmeEDV4/mqdefault.jpg "Wim Sonneveld - Zo Heerlijk Rustig (1963) (La chansonnette) [Restored]
Zo Heerlijk Rustig
A Dutch language cover of La chansonnette written by Philippe Gérard and Jean Dréjac, performed by Yves Montand.")
![Olivia Newton-John - Sam (live 1982) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qAKDKsi0a7c/mqdefault.jpg "Olivia Newton-John - Sam (live 1982) [Restored]
Sam is a song from 1977 performed by Australian singer Olivia Newton-John. It was written by Don Black, Hank Marvin and John Farrar and appears on Newton-Johns album Dont Stop Believin. Farrar also produced the album. Sam went to number one on the Easy Listening chart and number twenty on the Hot 100.")
![Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - Lets Call the Whole Thing Off (1937) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qRrw2hDjnl4/mqdefault.jpg "Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - Lets Call the Whole Thing Off (1937) [Restored]
Lets Call the Whole Thing Off is a song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film Shall We Dance, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as part of a celebrated dance duet on roller skates. The song is most famous for its “You like to-may-toes /təˈmeɪtoʊz/ and I like to-mah-toes /təˈmɑːtoʊz/” and other verses comparing their different regional dialects.
The differences in pronunciation are not simply regional, however, but serve more specifically to identify class differences. At the time, typical American pronunciations were considered less refined by the upper-class, and there was a specific emphasis on the broader a sound. This class distinction with respect to pronunciation has been retained in caricatures, especially in the theater, where the longer a pronunciation is most strongly associated with the word darling.
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 studios 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.")
![Third World - Now That We Found Love (1978) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qcVBCzdPK6k/mqdefault.jpg "Third World - Now That We Found Love (1978) [Restored]
Now That We Found Love (also known as Now That Weve Found Love) is a song written by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff and originally recorded by The OJays for their album Ship Ahoy (1973). Cover versions have been an album track by Martha Reeves (1976), a reggae-disco hit by the reggae band Third World (1978) and a breakthrough hit for Heavy D & The Boyz (1991). The Third World version was released as a single in 1978 by Island Records and peaked at number 10 in the UK and #47 on the Billboard Hot 100.")
![Middle of the Road - Soley Soley (1971) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qtdQHDWgaMA/mqdefault.jpg "Middle of the Road - Soley Soley (1971) [Restored]
Middle of the Road was a Scottish pop group who enjoyed success across Europe and Latin America in the early 1970s. Before ABBA established themselves in the mid 70s, Middle of the Road were the sound of early europop with their distinctive harmonies and lead vocals from Sally Carr. Four of their singles sold over one million copies each, and received a gold disc: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (one of only a few all-time singles to have sold in excess of 10 million physical copies), Sacramento, Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum and Soley Soley. By early 1972 the group had sold over five million records")
![The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star (1979) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rJPMV_1uk9I/mqdefault.jpg "The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star (1979) [Restored]
Video Killed the Radio Star is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1978. It was first recorded by Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club (with Thomas Dolby on keyboards) for their album English Garden, and later by British group the Buggles, consisting of Horn and Downes. The track was recorded and mixed in 1979, released as their debut single on 7 September 1979 by Island Records, and included on their first album The Age of Plastic. The backing track was recorded at Virgins Town House in West London, and mixing and vocal recording would later take place at Sarm East Studios.
Like all the other tracks from the LP, Videos theme was promotion of technology while worrying about its effects. This song relates to concerns about mixed attitudes towards 20th-century inventions and machines for the media arts. Musically, the song performs like an extended jingle and the composition plays in the key of D-flat major in common time at a tempo of 132 beats per minute. The track has been positively received, with reviewers praising its unusual musical pop elements. Although the song includes several common pop characteristics and six basic chords are used in its structure, Downes and writer Timothy Warner described the piece as musically complicated, due to its use of suspended and minor ninth chords for enhancement that gave the song a slightly different feel.
Commercially, Video Killed the Radio Star was also a success. The track topped sixteen international music charts, including the official singles charts of the groups home country of the UK and other nations such as Australia, Austria, France, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as the Japanese Oricon International Chart. It also peaked within the top 10 in Canada, Germany, New Zealand and South Africa, the top 20 in Belgium and the Netherlands, and barely in the top 40 in the United States.
The songs music video was written, directed, and edited by Russell Mulcahy, and is well-remembered as the first music video shown on MTV in the United States at 12:01a.m. on 1 August 1981, and the first video shown on MTV Classic in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2010. The song has received several critical accolades, such as being ranked number 40 on VH1s 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s. It has been covered by many recording artists. Trevor Horn has done performances of the song, both at Buggles reunion performances and with The Producers, since 1998.
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![Ralph McTell - Streets of London (1974) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sSn9McLtx30/mqdefault.jpg "Ralph McTell - Streets of London (1974) [Restored]
Streets of London is a song by Ralph McTell, who first recorded it for his 1969 album Spiral Staircase. It was not released in the United Kingdom as a single until 1974. The song has been covered by over 200 artists]. The song was re-released, on 4 December 2017, featuring McTell with Annie Lennox as a charity single for CRISIS, the Homelessness Charity. Roger Whittaker also recorded a well-received version in 1971.")
