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Back in the day this singer was nominated for record of the year at the Grammys. The song was a shoe in for an Oscar nomination. Until it wasn't. The singer says it was never nominated because she refused to sleep with the head of the record label so he pulled some strings and the next thing you know, the song got buried in the middle of a bunch of other songs and didn't make it past the first round of balloting.
Bette Midler, The Rose (1981)
ReplyDeleteCan't imagine it's Bette. The head of her label was the legendary Ahmet Ertegun, who was beloved by every musician who ever worked with him. And Bette stayed with Atlantic through the late 90s.
ReplyDeleteI LOVED THE ROSE!!!! IT NEEDS AN OSCAR!!! JUST MAIL IT TO HER! sorry, past memories of singing it around a campfire when I was growing up came flooding back to me. Though looking at the history of the song, it didn't get nominated because it was technically not written for the movie. Maybe Bette didn't know that or she thinks they used that technicality to exclude it when they didn't have to? Who knows, but I agree with her, the song was robbed.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Christina Aguilara with that Mulan song.
ReplyDelete"A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton, which was from the movie "Legally Blonde".
ReplyDeleteThe Flashdance song, What a Feeling by Irene Cara
ReplyDelete“He was a misogynist,” Laura Branigan’s former manager recalls. “He didn’t have a lot of respect for women. He was sleeping with every artist he could, including Laura.” Quote from the bio "The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun " by Robert Greenfield, about Ahmet Ertegun.
ReplyDeleteAnd the head of the label wanted to bone her? Ewww. She has been solidly hideous for decades, and 1981 was not an exception according to google.
ReplyDeleteDia dhuit!
ReplyDeleteWind Beneath My Wings. It won Grammys but wasnt nominated for the Oscar.
ReplyDeleteDia is Muire dhuit
ReplyDeleteNo, that won a Best Original Song Oscar.
ReplyDeleteBette Midler sang it
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't eligible because it had been written at least 6 years before and recorded by a number of people before Bette recorded it (Roger Whittaker. Sheena Easton, Gladys Knight and the Pips to name a few). Academy rules are very clear that a song has to be specifically written for the film in question in order to be eligible.
ReplyDeleteI like this guess as she is also the songwriter.
ReplyDeleteLou Rawls sang it for the NFL.
ReplyDeleteI can see this being a story Bette Midler tells, even though it couldn't be true. I can remember seeing her on talk shows telling the same one-night stand story about several different well-known singers, including Willie Nelson and Kris Kristoffersen. The punch line was always "And he kept his boots on the whole time."
ReplyDeleteNot sure if this qualifies as back in the day yet.
ReplyDeleteWell since the there is no gender listed it could be a male singer. Perhaps Kenny Loggins refused to sleep with someone?
ReplyDelete"The singer says it was never nominated because she refused to sleep with the head of the record label "
ReplyDeleteIf it was Bette Midler, Ahmet Ertegun wasn't exactly a prize winner in the looks department, either.
ReplyDeleteAhh. Coffee.
ReplyDeleteIt's Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey from The Great Gatsby
ReplyDeleteNevermind, that wasn't "back in the day".
ReplyDeleteReally? I think there might be some poor sap in the wilds of Borneo who didn't know that.
ReplyDeleteAlso it's "shoo in."
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