It's All in the Game (song)

It's All in the Game ( German about "This is all part of the game to " ) is a song by Charles Gates Dawes (music) and Carl Sigman ( text ), which was recorded by various artists since 1951 and several times came into the charts. It had the greatest success in the 1958 version of Tommy Edwards, the top position in the charts conquered both in the U.S. and in the UK and has sold more than 3.5 million singles.

The song was based on a 1911 composed by Charles Dawes instrumental piece called " Melody in A Major". Dawes was later Nobel Prize winner and in the second term of Calvin Coolidge U.S. Vice President. It is the only number-one hit, which was written by a politician who has held the post.

Melody in A Major

The tune was written in 1911 and published in 1912 under the title " Melody in A Major" ( "Melody in A Major "). Composer was the then Chicago bank president and amateur pianist and flautist Charles Gates Dawes. He wrote the melody to a piece in his home in Evanston (Illinois ). After he had played his friend, the violinist Francis MacMillan, he was so impressed that he gave the sheet music secretly to a music publisher. Dawes, who had been politically active at this time and through a candidacy for the Senate also known, discovered, to his surprise, a little later, a printed sheet with his portrait in a music shop. To this end, he noted at the time: "I know that now I 'm the laughing stock of my friends. They will say that if all the notes so badly in my bank are like my musical notes, then they are not worth the paper on which they were written "The piece, often also referred to as" Dawes 's Melody ", followed him into politics. - and he hated it later that it was played everywhere he appeared. The melody was also disseminated by the violinist Fritz Kreisler, it was for years the closing number of his concerts; in the 1940s was a piece that also in the repertoire of various Swing big bands, including Tommy Dorsey.

It's All in the Game

In the summer of 1951, a few weeks after the death of Charles Dawes, Carl Sigman the songwriter had the idea for a song, and Dawes's " Melody in A Major " suitable for its sentimental text ( appeared to him began "Many a tear Has to fall, but it's all in the game ... ", German: " Many a tear has to flow, but all part of the game ... "). The song was released a little later in recordings by Dinah Shore, Sammy Kaye, Carmen Cavallaro and Tommy Edwards. The version of Edwards was the most successful, reaching number 18 in the U.S. pop charts.

The wide range of classical melody would have been " difficult to sing ", so they had to be rearranged. A well-known jazz arrangement, Louis Armstrong as a singer with arranger Gordon Jenkins; Jenkins produced in a similar manner in 1956, a version with Nat King Cole.

1958 MGM was about to run out Tommy Edwards ' contract. But shortly before the stereo recording was invented, and because Edwards should still take a last record, it was decided at MGM, to use it as a demonstration of the new technology. Edwards played in these recordings, among others, his old hit " It's All in the Game" in a new arrangement, similar to the current rock and roll sound on. Those responsible at MGM liked the result so much that they released the song in August 1958 as a single. He came into the Top 100, and on September 14, Edwards sang it on television on The Ed Sullivan Show. 15 days later, " It's All in the Game" rose to the top position of the Billboard charts and was six weeks, do not replace. In November, the song then came in the UK at number one.

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The song has been interpreted successfully by many different artists more or less. Known versions are available from:

  • Tommy Edwards, in two versions as a single: 1951 18th place in the U.S., 1958 Chart Topper in the U.S., UK and Australia
  • Andy Williams, on his album " Lonely Street", 1959
  • Robert Goulet, on his LP " Always You ", 1961
  • Cliff Richard, as a single, 1963 2nd place in the UK in 1964 ranked 25th in the U.S.
  • The Lettermen, on their LP " She Cried "
  • Jackie DeShannon, on their LP "What the World Needs Now Is Love", 1968
  • Four Tops, as a single, 1970 # 5 in the UK and number 24 in the U.S.
  • Van Morrison on his LP "Into the Music" and as single B-side of " Cleaning Windows ", 1979
  • Elton John, on his album " Cotton Fields " (or " Legendary Covers as Sung by Elton John " )
  • Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, on his album " The Out -of- Towners ", 2004
  • Barry Manilow, on his album "The Greatest Songs of the Fifties ", 2006
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