Post by erik on Mar 4, 2023 20:35:17 GMT -5
Maureen McGovern is in this week's Pop Music Hits Spotlight with the 1974 Academy Award-winning Song of the Year, from one of that year's biggest cinematic hits.
WE MAY NEVER LOVE LIKE THIS AGAIN (Maureen McGovern; 20th Century; 1974)—A great deal of artists have recorded songs for movies throughout the history of American popular music and the cinema, from the big ones (Elvis; The Beatles) to Kenny Loggins (for, among other films, Footlose and Top Gun), and The Bee Gees (several songs of theirs were on the mammoth-selling soundtrack for 1977’s Saturday Night Fever). Middle-of-the-road pop singer Maureen McGovern jumped on the bandwagon herself in this arena. In 1973, she had a massive hit with the Al Kasha/Joel Hirschhorn anthem “The Morning After”, which had been used as the theme song for the Irwin Allen-produced disaster smash The Poseidon Adventure (which had been released in December 1972). Two years later, McGovern, Kasha and Hitschhorn collaborated once again, this time on “We May Never Love Like This Again”, the love theme for Allen’s huge 1974 disaster epic The Towering Inferno. With a massive all-star cast that included Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Susan Blakely, Robert Vaughn, and many more, the film, about a holocaust that erupts in a 138-story San Francisco skyscraper, was a huge smash at the box office, marking the peak of the disaster film genre. McGovern even had a cameo in the film doing “We May Never Love Like This Again”, in the Promenade Room sequence, before all hell literally breaks loose some fifty floors below. Although nowhere near as big a hit as “The Morning After”, hitting only #83 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1975, “We May Never Love Like This Again” repeated its predecessor’s Academy Award win, garnering a Best Song award for 1974; and it was also a #20 hit on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary/Easy Listening chart. McGovern would subsequently get another minor hit in 1978 with “Can You Read My Mind?”, the love theme from Superman: The Movie.
WE MAY NEVER LOVE LIKE THIS AGAIN (Maureen McGovern; 20th Century; 1974)—A great deal of artists have recorded songs for movies throughout the history of American popular music and the cinema, from the big ones (Elvis; The Beatles) to Kenny Loggins (for, among other films, Footlose and Top Gun), and The Bee Gees (several songs of theirs were on the mammoth-selling soundtrack for 1977’s Saturday Night Fever). Middle-of-the-road pop singer Maureen McGovern jumped on the bandwagon herself in this arena. In 1973, she had a massive hit with the Al Kasha/Joel Hirschhorn anthem “The Morning After”, which had been used as the theme song for the Irwin Allen-produced disaster smash The Poseidon Adventure (which had been released in December 1972). Two years later, McGovern, Kasha and Hitschhorn collaborated once again, this time on “We May Never Love Like This Again”, the love theme for Allen’s huge 1974 disaster epic The Towering Inferno. With a massive all-star cast that included Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Susan Blakely, Robert Vaughn, and many more, the film, about a holocaust that erupts in a 138-story San Francisco skyscraper, was a huge smash at the box office, marking the peak of the disaster film genre. McGovern even had a cameo in the film doing “We May Never Love Like This Again”, in the Promenade Room sequence, before all hell literally breaks loose some fifty floors below. Although nowhere near as big a hit as “The Morning After”, hitting only #83 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1975, “We May Never Love Like This Again” repeated its predecessor’s Academy Award win, garnering a Best Song award for 1974; and it was also a #20 hit on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary/Easy Listening chart. McGovern would subsequently get another minor hit in 1978 with “Can You Read My Mind?”, the love theme from Superman: The Movie.