Laughter in the Rain
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| Introduction | From the producers of smash hit Rock N Roll musicals including Dreamboats and Petticoats, The Roy Orbison Story & Elvis The Musical, comes Laughter In The Rain, a brand new show based on the rise, fall and rise again of pop music's ultimate survivor... Neil Sedaka. Born in Brooklyn, the son of a taxi-driver, Sedaka started songwriting at Broadway's legendary Brill Building, penning his first hit, Oh Carol, for his then girlfriend, Carole King. He went on to become a teenage idol to rival Elvis but in 1964 his career collapsed as America embraced the Beatles and other bands of the so-called 'British Invasion'. For almost a decade, he struggled to support his wife, Leba, and their two children but found salvation in moving to Britain, where he signed to Elton John's Rocket Records label, and remarkably returned to the top of the US charts in 1974 with 'Laughter In The Rain' - remaining a national treasure there as well as in the UK ever since. 'Laughter in The Rain' - a remarkable story of triumph against the odds. |
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| Favorite Music | # The Diary" (US #14, 1958) # "I Go Ape" (US #42, 1959) # "Crying My Heart Out for You" (US #111, 1959) # "Oh! Carol" (US #9, 1959) # "Stairway to Heaven" (US #9, 1960) # "You Mean Everything to Me" (US #17, 1960) # "Run, Samson, Run" (US #28, 1960) # "Calendar Girl" (US #4, 1961) # "Little Devil" (US #11, 1961) # "Sweet Little You" (US #59, 1961) # "Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen" (US #6, 1962) # "King of Clowns" (US #45, 1962) # "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (US #1, 1962) # "Next Door to an Angel" (US #5, 1962) # "Alice in Wonderland" (US #17, 1963) # "Let's Go Steady Again" (US #26, 1963) # "The Dreamer" (US #47, 1963) # "Bad Girl" (US #33, 1963) # "The Closest Thing to Heaven" (US #107, 1964) # "Sunny" (US #86, 1964) # "I Hope He Breaks Your Heart" (US #104, 1964) # "Let the People Talk" (US #107, 1965) # "The World through a Tear" (US #76, 1965) # "The Answer to My Prayer" (US #89, 1966) # "We Can Make It if We Try" (US #121, 1967) # "Laughter in the Rain" (US #1 [1 week], US AC #1 [2 weeks] 1975) # "The Immigrant" (US #22, US AC #1 [1 week] 1975) (dedicated to John Lennon) # "That's When the Music Takes Me" (US #25, US AC #7 1975) # "Bad Blood" w/Elton John (noncredited backing vocal) (US #1 [3 weeks], US AC #25 1975-76; certified gold; most commercially successful individual US single released in Sedaka's career) # "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" [ballad version] (US #8, US AC #1 [1 week] 1976) # "Love in the Shadows" (US #16, US AC #4 1976) # "Steppin' Out" w/Elton John (noncredited backing vocal) (US #36, US AC #45 1976) # "You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine" (US #52, US AC #4 1977) # "Amarillo" (US #44, US AC #4 1977) # "Alone at Last" (US #104, US AC #17 1977) # "Letting Go" (US #107 1979) # "Should've Never Let You Go" [Neil & Dara Sedaka] (US #19, US AC #3 1980) # "My World Keeps Slipping Away" (US AC #36 1981) # "Your Precious Love" [Neil & Dara Sedaka] (US AC #15 1984) # "Rhythm of the Rain" (US AC #37 1984) |
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Thank you Aunty, I will make great use of my syrup dispenser shaped like a rooster- I would very much like to know where this came from?!