Who did the singer of Learning How to Love You write the song Something for?
his wife, Pattie Boyd
Title: Learning How to Love You
Passage: "Learning How to Love You" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in 1976 as the closing track of his debut album on his Dark Horse record label, "Thirty Three & 1/3". Harrison wrote the song for Herb Alpert, sometime singer and co-head of A&M Records, which at the time was the worldwide distributor for Dark Horse. Although the relationship with A&M soured due to Harrison's failure to deliver "Thirty Three & 1/3" on schedule, resulting in litigation and a new distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records, Harrison still dedicated the song to Alpert in the album's liner notes.
Title: Something (Beatles song)
Passage: The opening lyric was taken from the title of ``Something in the Way She Moves '', a track by Harrison's fellow Apple Records artist James Taylor. While Harrison imagined the composition in the style of Ray Charles, his inspiration for`` Something'' was his wife, Pattie Boyd. In her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Today, Boyd recalls: ``He told me, in a matter - of - fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful... ''Boyd discusses the song's popularity among other recording artists and concludes:`` My favourite (version) was the one by George Harrison, which he played to me in the kitchen at Kinfauns.''
Title: Learning How to Bend
Passage: "Learning How to Bend" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Gary Allan. It was released in March 2008 as the second single from his 2007 album "Living Hard". The song peaked at number 13 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart. Allan wrote the song with James LeBlanc and Matt Warren.
Title: Will to Love
Passage: "Will to Love" is a song written by Neil Young that was first released on his 1977 album "American Stars 'N Bars". A promotional single of "Will to Love" was released, backed with a live performance of "Cortez the Killer."
Title: Big Bad John (film)
Passage: Big Bad John is a 1990 film directed by Burt Kennedy. It stars Ned Beatty and Jimmy Dean, the latter of whom wrote and performed the song the film is based upon.
Title: Paul Williams (songwriter)
Passage: Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He is perhaps best known for writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's ``An Old Fashioned Love Song ''and`` Out in the Country'', Helen Reddy's ``You and Me Against the World '', David Bowie's`` Fill Your Heart'', and the Carpenters' ``We've Only Just Begun ''and`` Rainy Days and Mondays'', as well as for his contributions to films, such as writing the lyrics to the # 1 chart - topping ``Evergreen '', the love theme from A Star Is Born, starring Barbra Streisand, for which he won a Grammy for Song of the Year and an Academy Award for Best Original Song; and`` Rainbow Connection'' from The Muppet Movie. He also wrote the lyrics to the opening theme for The Love Boat, with music previously composed by Charles Fox, which was originally sung by Jack Jones and, later, by Dionne Warwick.
Something (Beatles song) Learning How to Love You