Cast: Jamie MacDougall (tenor), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Bell (conductor)
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Diamonds Are Forever: The Don Black Songbook (tv) • 00:34:00 • Black: "I have a theory, you know, luck plays a very big part in a songwriter's career. I have this theory that behind every successful songwriter is an astonished mother-in-law. The producer of Born Free, Carl Foreman, did not like John's melody and he wasn't happy with my lyric; he wanted it more about cages and jungles and things like that, and he said I made too much of a social comment about it. However, when it won the Oscar and that night Dean Martin gave it to me, Carl Foreman came up to me at the party afterwards and said 'Well, it does grow on you' ... One night we [Matt Monro and Black's families] went to a premiere and it wasn't in the film, Carl Foreman actually took it out. But the song became a big hit in America and so they quickly, to make it eligible for the Academy Award, made sure it was in every print ..." [Michael Grade: they released the song as a single] Black: "not with Matt, with Roger Williams and his orchestra, it was a big hit in America."
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