Unchained Melody lyrics
July 5, 2007 @ 5:06pm
Hy Zaret, who wrote the haunting lyrics for
Unchained Melody died at age 99 this week.
Unchained Melody was one of the most recorded songs of the last century. The version most of us knew was the Righteous Brothers one that had a resurgence in the movie
Ghost.
According to stories I read about the song, he was asked to write it for the film
Unchained and he did it without using the word unchained in the lyrics. My personal favorite version of the song is Willie Nelson's.
Seven or eight years ago, Niki and I took my mom and her husband to see Righteous Brothers in Atlantic City a few years before Bobby Hatfield died. Mainly I did this because
Unchained Melody was my mom's favorite song. Afterwards I asked her how the show was. She loved it. I asked how she liked
Unchained Melody. She loved it. I said, "That's your favorite song, right?" She said, "No. I do love that song, but my favorite song is
House of the Rising Sun."
Argh.
So I kept an eye out for Eric Burden shows and ended up taking her to see him at B.B. King's in New York City. We watched a great show that included
House of the Rising Sun. I got to cross that one off of my list.
A few weeks ago I took my dad to see Chicago at Jones Beach for Father's Day. I knew they were one of his favorite bands when I was a kid and at least he didn't tell me after the show that he'd rather have seen The Doors.
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