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Episode 18: A Kiss Is All I Need (1950)

Episode 18: A Kiss Is All I Need (1950)

FromThe Best Song Podcast


Episode 18: A Kiss Is All I Need (1950)

FromThe Best Song Podcast

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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
May 1, 2023
Format:
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

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Learn more about the 470-plus songs nominated in the first 90 years of the Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as the songwriters and singers who made them popular ... or not so popular. New episodes every Monday!