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| Single by Bette Midler | ||||
| from the album The Rose | ||||
| Released | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 3:40 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Writer(s) | Amanda McBroom | |||
| Producer | Paul A. Rothchild | |||
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"The Rose" is a pop song written by Amanda McBroom and made famous by Bette Midler, who performed it in the 1979 movie, The Rose. Since then it has been covered by a variety of artists.
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"The Rose" is featured in the 1979 film of the same name, in which it was performed by Midler. The single peaked at #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the adult contemporary chart, and it was certified gold by the RIAA for over half a million copies sold.[1][2] McBroom won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, although she was not nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[3] Midler won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "The Rose".[4]
There are two mixes of the song. The single mix features orchestration, while the version in the film (and on its soundtrack) includes an extended introduction while doing away with the orchestration in favor of piano-and-vocals only.
| Preceded by "Lost in Love" by Air Supply |
Billboard Adult Contemporary (chart) number-one single May 10, 1980 (five weeks) |
Succeeded by "Little Jeannie" by Elton John |
| "The Rose" | ||||
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| Single by Conway Twitty | ||||
| from the album Dream Maker | ||||
| Released | January 17, 1983 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Writer(s) | Amanda McBroom | |||
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Country singer Conway Twitty recorded a cover version in 1983. His version, off his album Dream Maker, was a Number One country hit in U.S. and Canada. Conway Twitty's version was his 30th number one single on the U.S. country chart.[5]
| Chart (1983) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
| Preceded by "If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)" by Don Williams |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single March 12, 1983 |
Succeeded by "I Wouldn't Change You If I Could" by Ricky Skaggs |
| Preceded by "Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning" by Willie Nelson |
RPM Country Tracks number-one single March 26, 1983 |
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| Single by Westlife | ||||||||||
| from the album The Love Album | ||||||||||
| Released | November 6, 2006 | |||||||||
| Format | CD Single | |||||||||
| Recorded | Studio 301, Stockholm, Sweden & Metropolis Studio, London | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||
| Length | 3:39 | |||||||||
| Label | SonyBMG | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Amanda McBroom | |||||||||
| Producer | Quiz & Larossi | |||||||||
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"The Rose" was covered by Irish boyband Westlife and was released as the first and only single from their eighth studio album, The Love Album. It reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart for one week in November 2006. This became the group's 14th number-one single.[6] The single has sold over 140,000 copies in Britain so far.[7] The band gave their first live performance of the song on Miss World 2006.
The video for this single was presented in black and white and shows the emotions and events leading up to a couple's wedding procession. The band members are clad in suits and are shown in a checkered-floor room. During the initial period of the video's release, fans were given the opportunity to customise the music video by digitally adding their names to various elements such as the wedding invitation card. A coloured version of the music video was later made available.
| Chart (2006) | Peak position [6][8] |
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| Austrian Singles Chart | 67 |
| European Hot 100 Singles[9] | 4 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 1 |
| Sweden Singles Chart | 4 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 85 |
| UK Singles Chart | 1 |
| Preceded by "Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" by Fredde Le Grand |
UK Singles Chart number-one single November 12, 2006 (1 week) |
Succeeded by "Smack That" by Akon |
| Preceded by "The Saints Are Coming" by U2 & Green Day |
Irish Singles Chart number-one single November 16, 2006 (1 week) |
Kurt Cobain mockingly sang the first line of this song at the beginning of Nirvana's famed 1992 Reading Festival appearance.[10] On the television show Family Guy, in the episode "Baby Not on Board," the Griffins sing an abbreviated version of "The Rose" after Peter suggests they sing a driving song.[11] In the Two and a Half Men episode City of Great Racks, a version of the song by Bianca Ryan was played during a montage of Rose and Charlie. The song was also briefly played in the movie Napoleon Dynamite during the "Happy Hands Club" scene. The Irish/German "Kelly Family[12]" did a recording of 'The Rose'[13] as well.
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