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WAS: Re-titled It's All in the Game, the song was recorded by the likes of Sammy Kaye and Dinah Shore. It eventually climbed the charts to No. 18 in the hands of Tommy Edwards. This is the only #1 hit ever written by a US Vice President. It was composed in 1911 by then-banker Charles Gates Dawes, who became VP under Calvin Coolidge in 1925. The lyrics were added in 1951 by the Brill Building songwriter Carl Sigman, who also changed the song's name to 'It's All in the Game.' In The Carl Sigman Songbook, Sigman's son Michael writes: Donny and Marie Osmond included their version of "It's All in the Game" on their 1975 album, Make the World Go Away. WAS: It's All in the Game is only one of many distinguished hits that Sigman wrote, including Ebb Tide, What Now My Love, A Day in the Life of a Fool, and Where Do I Begin, the theme from the film Love Story, which was recorded hundreds of times by the likes of Tony Bennett and Shirley Bassey.
WAS: Lawyer, banker, soldier, politico, and hit songwriter. Quite a portfolio for the Ohio boy whose great great grandfather rode with Paul Revere. It's All in the Game" is a pop song whose most successful version was recorded by Tommy Edwards in 1958. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition titled "Melody in A Major", written by Charles G. Dawes, who was later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only No. 1 single in the U.S. to have been co-written by a U.S. Vice President [1] or a Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Dawes was both). Cliff Richard had a number two hit in the United Kingdom in 1963 and a number 25 hit on the US Hot 100 in 1964. This was Richard's only top 40 hit in the United States in the 1960s (compared to his UK tally of 43) and his last until " Devil Woman" in 1976. In Canada, it reached number one on the CHUM Chart. [16] [17] [18] In Israel, it also reached number one on the Kel Israel Broadcasting chart. [19] Four Tops version [ edit ]In 1970, the Four Tops had a number five hit in the United Kingdom. [20] Their version peaked at number six on the soul charts and number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. [21] Other recordings [ edit ] The song has become a pop standard, with cover versions by dozens of artists, some of which have been minor hit singles. WAS: But his collaboration with Vice President Dawes, who died in 1951, would keep returning to the charts over and over. And on the same day that it peaked at #1 on the Top 100 it also reached #1 {for 3 non-consecutive weeks} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
WAS: Wherever Mr. Dawes appeared thereafter, his catchy melody was manhandled by bands of every description, noted his biographer, Bascom Timmons. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs 1944–2012. Record Research, Inc. p.142. ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8. WAS: Cut to New York City, exactly 40 years later, and we find lyricist Carl Sigmund--a lapsed lawyer whose boyhood friend Johnny Mercer had encouraged him to write songs. The VP's enduring melody hummed in his head, and he set down a wry lyric on the vagaries of love to accompany it. Martin from Fresno, CaA great song. His other songs were bigger hits for artists who covered those songs like "Mr.Sun," but this song will be a song no other artist can do as well.
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The most interesting story-behind-a-song saga in Carl's career began with a phone call from a publisher. For years Carl had thought about writing a lyric for a tune he remembered from his classical training. 'The Dawes Melody,' or 'Melody in A Major,' was a classical violin and orchestra piece composed in 1911 by none other than Charles G. Dawes, later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. Dawes composed the piece in a single piano sitting. 'It's just a tune that I got in my head, so I set it down,' he told an interviewer.
Will Friedwald (June 6, 2001). "The Old Songster". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2006-11-05 . Retrieved 2006-08-21. Mr. GARFUNKEL: ...your heart can rise above. Once in a while, he won't call, but it's all in the game. Of all the unlikely candidates to have composed a staple on the pop charts in the last half century, former U.S. Vice President Charles Dawes certainly takes the cake.
Trivia time: name the only No. 1 Pop single to have been written by a United States Vice-President.
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