Irene Cara & Freddie Jackson - "Love Survives"
Dec 2, 2006 22:34:30 GMT -5
Post by Libra on Dec 2, 2006 22:34:30 GMT -5
From the Don Bluth animated movie All Dogs Go to Heaven. It's a pretty good song.
It obviously says in the credits that Irene and Freddie sing it, but for years I'd had basically no idea who they were. I'd like to know where this placed on the Billboard chart, since it didn't go Top 40. (Shame...though with both their careers in downturns by the latter part of 1989, when this was released, it's not too much of a surprise.)
About the movie...it was released the exact same weekend as Disney's The Little Mermaid, and as a result, it didn't do well at the box office. I was surprised when I learned that (both that it didn't do well and that it was released the same weekend as Mermaid). I'm inclined to believe that it's held up well over time, and it's one of the first movies I ever remember watching on video cassette as a kid. I still own the cassette.
One might wonder what MGM was thinking releasing this against The Little Mermaid, but some background information of this time shows that it wasn't necessarily a totally foolish idea. Disney had been in a prolonged slump ever since 1977's The Rescuers (!), with 1986 having the first even modest hit (The Great Mouse Detective) since then. However, that was out-grossed by Don Bluth's An American Tail. I sincerely doubt that either Disney or Don would have guessed that The Little Mermaid would prove to be the movie to bring Disney out of its slump and into a string of hits. Still...when you think about it, the younger audience on that weekend (November 17, 1989) had to choose between a fairy-tale-based movie in Mermaid and a rather dark animated film in Dogs.
A very tragic story is that of the little girl who voiced Anne-Marie. I'd rather not go into what happened to her in this post, so I'll post a link to her Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Barsi
:(
It obviously says in the credits that Irene and Freddie sing it, but for years I'd had basically no idea who they were. I'd like to know where this placed on the Billboard chart, since it didn't go Top 40. (Shame...though with both their careers in downturns by the latter part of 1989, when this was released, it's not too much of a surprise.)
About the movie...it was released the exact same weekend as Disney's The Little Mermaid, and as a result, it didn't do well at the box office. I was surprised when I learned that (both that it didn't do well and that it was released the same weekend as Mermaid). I'm inclined to believe that it's held up well over time, and it's one of the first movies I ever remember watching on video cassette as a kid. I still own the cassette.
One might wonder what MGM was thinking releasing this against The Little Mermaid, but some background information of this time shows that it wasn't necessarily a totally foolish idea. Disney had been in a prolonged slump ever since 1977's The Rescuers (!), with 1986 having the first even modest hit (The Great Mouse Detective) since then. However, that was out-grossed by Don Bluth's An American Tail. I sincerely doubt that either Disney or Don would have guessed that The Little Mermaid would prove to be the movie to bring Disney out of its slump and into a string of hits. Still...when you think about it, the younger audience on that weekend (November 17, 1989) had to choose between a fairy-tale-based movie in Mermaid and a rather dark animated film in Dogs.
A very tragic story is that of the little girl who voiced Anne-Marie. I'd rather not go into what happened to her in this post, so I'll post a link to her Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Barsi
:(
