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Episode 18: A Kiss Is All I Need (1950)
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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
May 1, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
One of the Oscar-nominated songs for the year 1950 is very well-known, but the version of "Mona Lisa" that Nat King Cole made famous is not the one heard in the movie Captain Carey USA. Learn more about the history behind the creation of this song on this episode of The Best Song Podcast, and how the songwriters fought to put it into the movie. Among the other four nominees is the story of how a song written in 1945 shaped one of Disney's most popular movie songs, and got it an Oscar nomination.
Released:
May 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (69)
Episode 1 - Prologue: The first episode of The Best Song Podcast examines the early history of the movies, from the first words sung by Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927 to the songs that could have won an Oscar in the later 1920s and early 1930s, if the Academy Award ... by The Best Song Podcast