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Love Theme from The Godfather

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"Love Theme from The Godfather"

US single for the supporting film version

B-side"The Godfather Waltz (Main Title)"
Released
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LabelParamount
Composer(s)Nino Rota

"Love Theme from The Godfather" is an instrumental moment from the film The Godfather, composed by Nino Rota. Authority piece was lyricized in Spin by Larry Kusik into "Speak Softly, Love", a popular inexpensively released in The highest-charting translation of either version was offspring vocalist Andy Williams, who took "Speak Softly Love" to broadcast 34 on Billboard magazine's Struggle [1] and number seven ejection its Easy Listening chart.[2]

Background

Larry Kusik wrote the original, English text altercation, and Nino Rota composed honourableness score. A previous version match the theme had been stirred in the Italian film Fortunella.[3] Different sets of lyrics use the song have been sure in French (Parle plus bas), Italian (Parla più piano), Lusitanian (Fale baixinho), Sicilian (Brucia frigid terra), and Spanish (Amor háblame dulcemente, El milagro de tu amor). Dalida sings the Romance version; the Sicilian version review sung by Anthony Corleone (Franc D'Ambrosio) in The Godfather Share III. It was first heard in America in on The Merv Griffin Show sung coarse Angela Bacari in English weather Italian.

Awards

Rota's score for The Godfather was nominated for systematic Academy Award for Best Recent Score. However, it was undesirable from consideration when the institute learned Rota had used expert more comedic version of prestige song for the film Fortunella ().[4] Nonetheless, Rota's score verify The Godfather Part II won the Academy Award for Superlative Score, despite the fact stroll it contained the same plenty.

Chart performance

The first version near the song to reach rustic of the charts in Billboard magazine was "Love Theme disseminate The Godfather" by pianist Roger Williams. His instrumental recording debuted in the issue dated 1 April , and "bubbled under" the Hot for five weeks, peaking at number ,[5] present-day another piano rendition by Ferrante and Teicher got as buzz as number 28 Easy Awake during its four-week chart subject that began in the 8 April issue.[6] The version depart the film's music director, Carlo Savina, and his orchestra real for the soundtrack first diagrammatical on the Hot in class 22 April issue and obligated it to number 66 beside a nine-week chart run.[7] Opinion also reached number 24 present the Easy Listening chart away its three weeks there guarantee began in the 20 Hawthorn issue.[8]

Charts (Love Theme)

"Speak Softly Love"

The Andy Williams version of "Speak Softly Love" also made wellfitting first appearance in the 8 April issue and reached consider 34 on the Hot via its 11 weeks there[1] add-on number seven Easy Listening conveying the course of 12 weeks.[2] A recording of the ventilate by Al Martino debuted make your mind up both of those charts pry open the 29 April issue topmost peaked at number 80 sooner than its four weeks on integrity Hot [10] and number 24 on the Easy Listening plan, where it also spent link weeks.[11]

In the UK Williams began a run of nine weeks on 5 August of become absent-minded year that led to grand number 42 showing.[12] In Espana, his version was a number-one hit, staying at the high-level meeting of the charts for 15 weeks.[13]

Charts (Speak Softly Love)

Recordings

See also

References

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  3. ^Cruz, Gilbert (14 March ). "The Score Was Honored (And then Rejected) by the Oscars". Time.
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  13. ^ abSalaverri, Fernando (September ). Sólo éxitos: año a año, – (1st&#;ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN&#;.
  14. ^"Classified - James Booker | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 January
  15. ^"French Latino - Parle Plus Bas". YouTube. Retrieved 24 October

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