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The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song is a Golden Globe Award that was awarded

for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965

by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

The award is presented to the songwriters of a song written specifically for a motion picture.

The performers of the song are not credited, unless they also have a writing

or co-writing credit.

 

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In this topic I will present through decades the songs that won the

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and which you can find on Deezer.
I will also mention a few words about the film in which the song appears.
Each winning song will be published in a separate section during the following period.

 

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I hope you will like the topic and you will get to know all the winning songs better!?

 

 

 

 

 

1961 Winning Song 

 

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 Town Without Pity


 Lyrics by Ned Washington, Music by Dimitri Tiomkin performed by Gene Pitney


Movie "Town Without Pity"  Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
Drama
The Story of What Four Men Did To a Girl… And What the Town Did To Them!
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Without_Pity


Thank you Nina .. sooo cool ..


Thank you Nina .. sooo cool ..

 

 I'm glad you like it ​@oldrecord !

 

Honestly, until yesterday I had no idea that such an award even existed.
I started researching and discovered that it would be a good idea to write an article about it and present all those songs and films here in the community.


 

1964 Winning Song 

 

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 Circus World  

 

Main Theme - Lyrics by Ned Washington, Music and performed by Dimitri Tiomkin

 

Movie “Circus World” 1964 Directed by Henry Hathaway
Drama Western
John Wayne Wild Across the World!
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_World_(film)


Very cool idea, ​@Nina Nebo I am interested to discover all the songs!😊 


Very cool idea, ​@Nina Nebo I am interested to discover all the songs!😊 

 

Thank you ​@AntjeDeezer  ! 👍

I'll be discovering those songs too because I've never heard of some of them, as well as the movies.


Love this topic! Bring it on! 😀


Love this topic! Bring it on! 😀

 

Thank you ​@awesomemac 😊 I’m glad you like it


 

 

1965 Winning Song 

 

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Forget Domani

 

 Lyrics by Norman Newell, Music by Riz Ortolani , Performed by Perry Como

 

 

Movie The Yellow Rolls-Royce 1964 Directed by Anthony Asquith
Romance Comedy Drama
The screen’s most exciting cast…in the year’s most magnificent movie.
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Rolls-Royce


 

 

1966 Winning Song 

 

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Strangers in the Night

 

Lyrics by Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder, Music by Bert Kaempfert 

Performed Frank Sinatra

 

 

 

Movie "A Man Could Get Killed" 1966 Directed by Cliff Owen, Ronald Neame
Action, Comedy
But what a wonderful way to die!
An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds.

As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Could_Get_Killed


 

 

1967 Winning Song 

 

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If Ever I Would Leave You

 

Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederick Loewe , Performed by Frances Nero
 

 

Movie Camelot 1967 Directed by Joshua Logan
Romance , Music, Adventure
Relive the songs. Relive the romance. Relive the music. Relive the drama. Relive the magic.
The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere’s growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and destroy his “round table” of knights.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot_(film)


 

 

1968 Winning Song 

 

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The Windmills of Your Mind

 

Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Music by Michel Legrand
 

 

Movie The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Directed by Norman Jewison
Romance ,Crime
McQueen and Dunaway… partners in crime.
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thomas_Crown_Affair_(1968_film)

 


 

1969 Winning Song 

 

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Jean
 

 

Music & Lyrics by Rod McKuen

 

 

Movie The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969 Directed by Ronald Neame
Drama
In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls.
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie_(film)


 

 

1970 Winning Song 

 

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Whistling Away the Dark

 

 Lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Music by Henry Mancini

 

 

Movie Darling Lili 1970 Directed by Blake Edwards
Romance, Comedy, Music, Drama, Spy

She gave away secrets to one side and her heart to the other.
World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is also half German and is an undercover German spy, using her feminine wiles to gather information from the high ranking and generally older military officers and diplomats she seduces.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_Lili


 

 

1971 Winning Song 

 

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Life Is What You Make It


 Lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Music by Marvin Hamlisch

 

 

Movie Kotch 1971 Directed by Jack Lemmon
Drama Comedy
Walter Matthau in the role only he could make so excitingly different…
When retired salesman Joseph Kotcher begins to feel pressure to move out of the house he shares with the family of his son, he opts to embark on a road trip instead of settling in a retirement home. Befriending Erica, a young pregnant woman and his grandson’s former nanny, Kotch begins to finds new meaning in life as he helps her prepare to welcome her baby into the world.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotch


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