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The song that just didn't want to happen:
I'm getting ready to add a listener-created remix of Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On from the soundtrack to the movie Titanic, and came across this fascinating tidbit about the song which the United World Chart ranks as the fourteenth most successful song in music history & the second most successful song released by a solo female musician:
FROM WIKIPEDIA
Horner had originally composed the song as an instrumental motif that is used in several scenes during Titanic. He then wanted to make a full vocal song out of it, for use in the end credits of the film. Director James Cameron did not want such a song, but Horner went ahead anyway and got Jennings to write the lyrics. Dion was Horner's first choice to sing it, but when she heard the song, she did not want to record it. It was her manager and husband, René Angélil, who convinced her to record a demo version, which was something she hadn't done for many years. Horner waited until Cameron was in an appropriate mood before presenting him with the song.
After playing it several times, Cameron declared his approval, although worried that he might be criticised for "going commercial at the end of the movie."
FROM WIKIPEDIA
Horner had originally composed the song as an instrumental motif that is used in several scenes during Titanic. He then wanted to make a full vocal song out of it, for use in the end credits of the film. Director James Cameron did not want such a song, but Horner went ahead anyway and got Jennings to write the lyrics. Dion was Horner's first choice to sing it, but when she heard the song, she did not want to record it. It was her manager and husband, René Angélil, who convinced her to record a demo version, which was something she hadn't done for many years. Horner waited until Cameron was in an appropriate mood before presenting him with the song.
After playing it several times, Cameron declared his approval, although worried that he might be criticised for "going commercial at the end of the movie."
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