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Kristin from Bessemer, AlI LOVE the FOUR TOPS version from 1970 - a much different arrangement than the 1958 version- Marsh, Dave (1989). "The 1001 Greatest Singles". control.lth.se. Archived from the original on 4 February 2002 . Retrieved 12 August 2008. Van Morrison included his version in a medley with "You Know What They're Writing About" on his 1979 album Into the Music; he also used the song as the B-side of his 1982 single " Cleaning Windows". His cover of the song was voted number 813 on Dave Marsh's list of the "1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made". [22] Morrison also released it on the live albums Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast (1984), A Night in San Francisco (1994) and Live at Austin City Limits Festival (2006). WAS: It's All in the Game is only one of many distinguished hits that Sigman wrote, including Ebb Tide, What Now My Love, A Day in the Life of a Fool, and Where Do I Begin, the theme from the film Love Story, which was recorded hundreds of times by the likes of Tony Bennett and Shirley Bassey. Cliff Richard had a number two hit in the United Kingdom in 1963 and a number 25 hit on the US Hot 100 in 1964. This was Richard's only top 40 hit in the United States in the 1960s (compared to his UK tally of 43) and his last until " Devil Woman" in 1976. In Canada, it reached number one on the CHUM Chart. [16] [17] [18] In Israel, it also reached number one on the Kel Israel Broadcasting chart. [19] Four Tops version [ edit ]

WAS: But his collaboration with Vice President Dawes, who died in 1951, would keep returning to the charts over and over.And on the same day that it peaked at #1 on the Top 100 it also reached #1 {for 3 non-consecutive weeks} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart... This is the only #1 hit ever written by a US Vice President. It was composed in 1911 by then-banker Charles Gates Dawes, who became VP under Calvin Coolidge in 1925. The lyrics were added in 1951 by the Brill Building songwriter Carl Sigman, who also changed the song's name to 'It's All in the Game.' In The Carl Sigman Songbook, Sigman's son Michael writes: WAS: Lawyer, banker, soldier, politico, and hit songwriter. Quite a portfolio for the Ohio boy whose great great grandfather rode with Paul Revere. Mr. GARFUNKEL: ...your heart can rise above. Once in a while, he won't call, but it's all in the game.

Between 1951 and 1960 he had twenty-one Top 100 records, with "It's All in the Game" being his only Top 10 record... BRAND: Barry Manilow, singing It's All in the Game. Lyrics by Carl Sigman, melody by Former Vice President Charles Dawes. Our reviewer, David Was, is half of the musical duo, Was Not Was. WAS: Wherever Mr. Dawes appeared thereafter, his catchy melody was manhandled by bands of every description, noted his biographer, Bascom Timmons. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 19th 1970, "It's All In The Game" by the Four Tops entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #99; and on June 28th it peaked at #24 (for 1 week) and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100... Dawes, a Chicago bank president and amateur pianist and flautist, composed the tune in 1911 [3] in a single sitting at his lakeshore home in Evanston. He played it for a friend, the violinist Francis MacMillen, who took Dawes's sheet music to a publisher. Dawes, known for his federal appointments and a United States Senate candidacy, was surprised to find a portrait of himself in a State Street shop window with copies of the tune for sale. Dawes quipped, "I know that I will be the target of my punster friends. They will say that if all the notes in my bank are as bad as my musical ones, they are not worth the paper they were written on." [ citation needed]

Edwards’ hits dried up by the time of 1960’s “It’s Not the End of Everything,” one of the final singles on the second disc here. He continued recording themed “concept albums” for MGM, but departed the label in 1963. Following a brief stint with Pitney’s home, Musicor Records, Edwards all but disappeared, with some blaming alcoholism for his decline. He died in 1969 of a brain aneurysm, his reputation largely surviving on the strength of oldies radio staple "It's All in the Game." RPM’s new release, with liner notes by John Reed, is a fine and important document of a romantic vocalist par excellence. A number of the songs on It’s All in the Game are making their first-ever appearance on CD, and per the notes, they have been taken “from the original tapes” housed in the U.S. MGM vaults. WAS: Better known for his role as second banana to Calvin Coolidge, the self-taught pianist composed an instrumental ditty in 1911 with the unassuming title Melody in A Major which sold briskly as a phonograph record. In 1970, the Four Tops had a number five hit in the United Kingdom. [20] Their version peaked at number six on the soul charts and number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. [21] Other recordings [ edit ] WAS: Cut to New York City, exactly 40 years later, and we find lyricist Carl Sigmund--a lapsed lawyer whose boyhood friend Johnny Mercer had encouraged him to write songs. The VP's enduring melody hummed in his head, and he set down a wry lyric on the vagaries of love to accompany it. a b Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1sted.). Enfield, Middlesex, UK: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp.39–40. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.

Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs 1944–2012. Record Research, Inc. p.142. ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8.Donny and Marie Osmond included their version of "It's All in the Game" on their 1975 album, Make the World Go Away.