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Her diary was made into a movie in 2001 starring an actress who famously gained weight for the role. One of the songs in that movie, complaining of the fact that she is all by herself, is based on a 1976 hit song. This guy, before he spent every Saturday night dancing off a fever, spent some time in a plastic bubble. In it, he sang plaintively that he will never fall in love again, also based on another 1976 hit song.
Both 1976 songs were by the same composer. What some people may not know is that he based the melody of each song on a much earlier work by still another famous composer. Who is the ultimate source of the melody for both 1976 hit songs?
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#98578. Asked by edmund80. (Aug 14 08 3:18 PM)
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Gatsby722
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The film would be "Bridget Jones's Diary". From Wikipedia: ""All by Myself" is a power ballad written and performed by Eric Carmen in 1975. It borrows very heavily from the second movement (Adagio Sostenuto) of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18, which Carmen believed was in the public domain. Having found it was not, only after the record had been issued, Carmen had to come to an agreement with the Rachmaninoff estate...."
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