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Length. 2:52[1] Songwriter (s) Jonathan Larson. " Seasons of Love " is a song from the 1996 Broadway musical Rent, written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The song starts with an ostinato piano motif, which provides the harmonic framework for the cast to sing "Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes" (the number of minutes in a ...
Old Man Trump. " Old Man Trump " is a song with lyrics written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie in 1954. Although the lyrics were written in 1954, it was never recorded by Guthrie. The song describes what Guthrie felt were the racist housing practices and discriminatory rental policies of his landlord, Fred Trump, father of ...
Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. [1] Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City ...
Rent was covered by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and was included as a B-side for their single R.u.b.b.i.s.h, and was later included in their compilation album This is the Sound of an Electric Guitar. The song is also featured as a live version by Suede, as a B-side on their single "Filmstar" from 1997 (Nude Records - NUD 30CD2), with ...
Everything I Own. " Everything I Own " is a song written by American singer-songwriter David Gates. It was originally recorded by Gates's soft rock band Bread for their 1972 album Baby I'm-a Want You. The original reached No. 5 on the American Billboard Hot 100. Billboard ranked it as the No. 52 song for 1972. [5] ".
According to The New York Times, that's what San Francisco designer, Grant K. Gibson, did when he offered to renovate his apartment in exchange for two months' worth of rent. When Free Rent Costs ...
Producer. Rob Cavallo. Singles from Rent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) "Seasons of Love". Released: August 2, 2005. Rent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2005 musical drama film Rent, based on Jonathan Larson 's 1996 Broadway musical of the same name, in turn based on Giacomo Puccini 's 1896 opera La bohème.
The song contains apparent references to at least three other songs: The line "Ain't nothing goin' on now, but the rent-uh" appears in the 1972 James Brown hit "Get on the Good Foot — Pt. 1". The line "You got to have a J-O-B if you want to be-with-me" is set to a melody line that recurs throughout "Doctor Love", a 1977 disco hit by First Choice.