The Show Goes On - Live At The Royal Albert Hall

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Hechinger, Fred M. "ABOUT EDUCATION; Personal Touch Helps", The New York Times, January 1, 1980; accessed September 20, 2009. You can be assured that you have made a wise decision if thinking of purchasing this DVD, and I have no hesitation is recommending it to you. I recorded this on my Virgin TIVO box, but it was infuriatingly deleted from my recordings as Sky Arrts 2 no longer broadcast.

Sedaka also made an appearance in the 1968 movie Playgirl Killer, where he performed a song called "The Waterbug". His second single, a novelty tune titled " I Go Ape", just missed the Top 40, peaking at No. 42, but it became a more successful single in the United Kingdom with a No. 9. The third single, " Crying My Heart Out for You", was a commercial failure, missing the Hot 100 entirely, peaking at No. 111 but reaching No. 6 on the pop charts in Italy. RCA Victor had lost money on "I Go Ape" and "Crying My Heart Out For You" and was ready to drop Sedaka from their label; Sedaka feared he was headed for one-hit wonder status. Sedaka and his manager, Al Nevins, persuaded the RCA executives to give him one more chance. [12] Neil Sedaka arrives in RP for concert, 05/15/2008". GMA News Online . Retrieved September 28, 2014.Sedaka demonstrated musical aptitude in his second-grade choral class and, when his teacher sent a note home suggesting he take piano lessons, his mother took a part-time job in an Abraham & Straus department store for six months to pay for a second-hand upright. In 1947, he auditioned successfully for a piano scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music's Preparatory Division for Children, which he attended on Saturdays. His mother had wanted him to become a classical pianist like his contemporary Van Cliburn, and Sedaka continued to show fondness for (and capacity to play) classical music throughout his life. Still Keeping It Together" interview by Russell A. Trunk with Neil Sedaka for AnneCarlini.com, Russell Trunk's Exclusive Magazine. Retrieved 07/16/11. Ewen, David. American Songwriters. An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary, H. W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tennille (1975) (songwriter) – US Billboard Hot 100, Grammy Award nomination for Song of the Year [59] Today's Mini-Concert – 9/14/2020 – Dedicated to Howard Greenfield". YouTube. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021 . Retrieved June 14, 2021. Neil Sedaka being interviewed by Paul Gambaccini in Neil Sedaka Live at the Royal Albert Hall: The Very Best of Neil Sedaka — The Show Must Go On DVD set "extra"

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In early 2011, Sedaka recorded two duets ("Brighton" and " The Immigrant") with singer Jim Van Slyke for Van Slyke's Neil Sedaka tribute album, The Sedaka Sessions. LML Records released this album in August 2011. [47] Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show (December 5, 1959) Neil Sedaka "Oh Carol" ". NRRArchives. December 5, 1959. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021 . Retrieved September 7, 2020. Unorthodox Live With FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten and 'How to Be a Muslim' Author Haroon Moghul". Tablet Magazine . Retrieved February 21, 2018. Mac Sedaka, Neil's father, died on June 6, 1981, of metastatic colon cancer; Neil was at his bedside singing his father's favorite song, Sedaka's 1965 song "Pictures From The Past", when his father briefly awoke from his coma before his death. Sedaka re-recorded the song that same year.

When Sedaka was not recording his own songs, he and Howard Greenfield were writing for other performers, most notably in their earliest days Connie Francis. Francis began searching for a new hit after her 1958 single " Who's Sorry Now?". She was introduced to Sedaka and Greenfield, who played for her every ballad they had written. Francis began writing in her diary while the two played the last of their songs. After they finished, Francis told them they wrote beautiful ballads but that they were too intellectual for the young generation. Greenfield suggested that they play a song they had written for the Shepherd Sisters. Sedaka protested that Francis would be insulted by being played such a puerile song, but Greenfield reminded him Francis had not accepted their other suggestions and they had nothing to lose. After Sedaka played " Stupid Cupid", Francis told them they had just played her new hit. Francis' rendition of the song reached No. 14 on the Billboard charts, while it topped the UK Singles Chart. Neil Sedaka: 'I think the songs will outlive me—It's a form of immortality.' Morning Joe. Retrieved January 13, 2023. Today's Mini-Concert – 1/4/2021". YouTube. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021 . Retrieved June 14, 2021. After establishing himself in 1958, Sedaka wrote many more hits from 1960 to 1962. His flow of Top 30 hits during this period included: " Stairway to Heaven" (No. 9, 1960); " You Mean Everything to Me" (No. 17, 1960); " Run, Samson, Run" (No. 27, 1960); " Calendar Girl" (No. 4, 1961; also reached No. 1 on the Japanese and Canadian pop charts); " Little Devil" (No. 11, 1961); " Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (No. 6, 1961); his signature song, " Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" (No. 1, two weeks: August 11 and 18, 1962); and " Next Door to an Angel" (No. 5, 1962). For several of those songs, Sedaka was paired with Stan Applebaum and His Orchestra. Singles not making the Top 30 during this period included "Sweet Little You" (No. 59, 1961) and "King of Clowns" (No. 45, 1962). RCA Victor issued four LPs of his works in the United States and Great Britain during this period, and also produced Scopitone and Cinebox videos of "Calendar Girl" in 1961, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" in 1962, and "The Dreamer" in 1963. His second LP was an album mostly of old standards. He made regular appearances on such TV programs as American Bandstand and Shindig! during this period.Jim Van Slyke Releases New Studio Recording "The Sedaka Sessions" (LML Music) August 9". PRWeb. Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC . Retrieved August 24, 2011.