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| "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" | |
| Music by | Francis Lai |
|---|---|
| Lyrics by | Carl Sigman |
| Published | 1970 |
| Recorded by | Andy Williams Vikki Carr Rick Astley José José Shirley Bassey Donald Braswell II Francis Lai Henry Mancini Johnny Mathis Patricia Kaas Paul Mauriat Richard Clayderman Alfio Nino Tempo & April Stevens Estela Nunez |
"(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" is a popular song published in 1970, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman. The song was first introduced as an instrumental theme in the 1970 film Love Story. The lyrics were added after the theme music became popular.
Covers
The song has been covered many times. Andy Williams recorded the biggest hit version (#9 on the U.S. pop chart, #1 on the adult contemporary chart for four weeks). The song was also recorded by Lai himself (U.S. #31) with a full orchestra, and by Henry Mancini (U.S. #13), Vikki Carr, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, Rick Astley, Johnny Mathis, José José, Shirley Bassey, Patricia Kaas, Nana Mouskouri, Paul Mauriat, Donald Braswell, and Richard Clayderman. Williams performed the song with Miss Piggy in an episode of The Muppet Show. There is also a Romanian cover of this song, by Aurelian Andreescu, as well as a French one by Mireille Mathieu.
Ray Conniff's version replaced the pronoun "she" (referring to Ali MacGraw's character in the film) with "you".
N.EX.T also covered this song in an instrumental version, in their album The Return of Next, Part 2.
Australian singer Alfio recorded this song in 2008 for his album Classic Rewinds in tribute to Al Martino and 14 other Italian-American singers.
In popular culture
- Raymond, in the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, played the song in the episode "Mozart".
- In The Simpsons episode "Catch 'Em if You Can" (from season 15), Homer and Marge sing the opening lines to this song to each other lovingly as the family prepares to watch the movie they rented for the evening, Love Story.
- In Friends episode The One With All The Jealousy, Ross sends Rachel a musical ladybug that plays the theme.
Samples
It has been sampled by DJ SS in the Drum & Bass song "Lighter", and was also sampled in piano and used in a song called "Dance with the Devil" by the rapper Immortal Technique. In addition, Hi-Tek also sampled Andy Williams' version for the track "Where It Started (NY)" for his album Hi-Teknology²: The Chip.
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