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But he just missed having a second Top 10 record when "Please, Mr. Sun" peaked at #11 {for 1 week} in 1959... At the time the song was at #11 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on September 29th it peaked at #1 {for 6 weeks} and spent a total of 22 weeks on the Top 100... Between 1951 and 1960 he had twenty-one Top 100 records, with "It's All in the Game" being his only Top 10 record... Mr. EDWARDS: (Singing) ...with him, and your future's looking dim, but these things, your hearts can rise above. Once in a while he won't call, but it's all... 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:

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. Of all the unlikely candidates to have composed a staple on the pop charts in the last half century, former U.S. Vice President Charles Dawes certainly takes the cake.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. Will Friedwald (June 6, 2001). "The Old Songster". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2006-11-05 . Retrieved 2006-08-21. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs 1944–2012. Record Research, Inc. p.142. ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8. 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. 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.

Kristin from Bessemer, AlI LOVE the FOUR TOPS version from 1970 - a much different arrangement than the 1958 version- It's All in the Game" is a pop song whose most successful version was recorded by Tommy Edwards in 1958. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition titled "Melody in A Major", written by Charles G. Dawes, who was later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only No. 1 single in the U.S. to have been co-written by a U.S. Vice President [1] or a Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Dawes was both). 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. 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 ] The most interesting story-behind-a-song saga in Carl's career began with a phone call from a publisher. For years Carl had thought about writing a lyric for a tune he remembered from his classical training. 'The Dawes Melody,' or 'Melody in A Major,' was a classical violin and orchestra piece composed in 1911 by none other than Charles G. Dawes, later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. Dawes composed the piece in a single piano sitting. 'It's just a tune that I got in my head, so I set it down,' he told an interviewer.

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Trivia time: name the only No. 1 Pop single to have been written by a United States Vice-President. Mr. GARFUNKEL: ...your heart can rise above. Once in a while, he won't call, but it's all in the game. Donny and Marie Osmond included their version of "It's All in the Game" on their 1975 album, Make the World Go Away. WAS: Lawyer, banker, soldier, politico, and hit songwriter. Quite a portfolio for the Ohio boy whose great great grandfather rode with Paul Revere.

Martin from Fresno, CaA great song. His other songs were bigger hits for artists who covered those songs like "Mr.Sun," but this song will be a song no other artist can do as well. 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... WAS: Re-titled It's All in the Game, the song was recorded by the likes of Sammy Kaye and Dinah Shore. It eventually climbed the charts to No. 18 in the hands of Tommy Edwards. 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] 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.

Marsh, Dave (1989). "The 1001 Greatest Singles". control.lth.se. Archived from the original on 4 February 2002 . Retrieved 12 August 2008. The song has become a pop standard, with cover versions by dozens of artists, some of which have been minor hit singles.