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Big is better by song5/19/2023 ![]() Recorded in 1965 by Hatfield, half of the iconic duo known as the Righteous Brothers, the haunting melody with the soaring background accompaniment still sells, and is responsible for more than two hundred million dollars in sales by a host of artists, much of which came during the days of 45 rpm records that sold for 50 cents! But the story of its origin is one of the best, and what most people don’t know is that it came very close to not happening at all.Įdward Jones is a proud supporter of Press Pros. Sixty five years after it was written – but almost not – Bobby Hatfield’s original recording of Unchained Melody still is one of America’s favorite love tunes. We all love some kind of music, and when you hear this one you’ll agree…it’s one of the best. ![]() So it comes easy, and it comes natural to share a good story about a song that most know, and one that most know little about. I enjoy writing these, know most of the back stories because I grew up in the era of songs like we don’t produce anymore and I didn’t graduate from Ohio State University with a degree in journalism, but with a degree in music. ![]() Someone mentioned this week that we haven’t posted one of our stories for a while about how popular songs came to be. ![]() What you don’t know about ‘Unchained Melody’. It was written as a score for a prison movie 65 years ago, and Bobby Hatfield’s recording of it still stops people in their tracks. ![]()
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