What about ‘Ashes to ashes, dust to dust’?
From Vulture in New York magazine:
Steve Carell has shown off his musical pipes on film many times, whether crooning “Age of Aquarius” in The 40 Year Old Virgin, or harmonizing with Dane “voice of an angel” Cook in Dan in Real Life. But does he have what it takes to play an international pop idol? Warner Bros. thinks so: Vulture has learned that the studio is negotiating to buy the rights to remake the unreleased documentary Of All the Things — which traced Dennis Lambert’s transformation from musical hit-maker to suburban Florida real-estate agent to one of the most beloved pop stars in the Philippines — as a comedic starring vehicle for Carell.
During the late sixties until the mid-eighties, Lambert was one of pop music’s top songwriters, writing, co-writing, or producing hits like the Four Tops’ “Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I Got)”; Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy”; The Commodores’ Grammy-winning “Nightshift”; Starship’s “We Built This City” — and, yes, even “Baby Come Back” by the one-hit wonder Player.
In 1972, in the middle of all that offstage success, Lambert made his first and only attempt at being a recording artist: He cut a little-heard album called Bags and Things. It sank like a stone, and was quickly forgotten almost everywhere — but not in the Philippines, where it took off; even today the record’s single, “Of All the Things,” remains a staple at Filipino weddings. . . Read the article in New York.
I have three songs by Dennis Lambert in my iPod. I got them off Juan’s iTunes library.
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May 28th, 2010 at 01:23
ohmygosh!! jessica, pardon the sugar but Of All The Things is our song! that’s because he was in Canada and I was in Manila but we met in NY! so “of all the things I’ve ever done, finding you will prove to be the most important one”. *sigh*
ok, serious now.
was never curious to know more about Dennis Lambert so I never searched for more info. til now. turns out:
1. he’s white. all along i thought he was black.
2. he doesn’t have a wikipedia entry yet. hehe
thanks for the info! can’t wait to tell hubby!
btw, have you seen the movie MacGruber?
May 28th, 2010 at 06:14
Dennis Lambert is responsible for yet another one of my favorite songs of all time: “Don’t Look Any Further,” which is the funkiest song ever written by a white guy. WINNER.
(Most Pinoys might know the M People version of “Don’t Look Any Further,” but I like the originally recorded one, with Dennis Edwards and Siedah Garrett.)
May 28th, 2010 at 07:38
Let me guess, apart from “Ashes to Ashes,” you have “Somebody Found Her Before I Lost Her” and “Bags and Things” or “Of All the Things”? There’s also “So Little Time.” Love Dennis Lambert, watched his concert at Araneta Coliseum, back to back with Paul Williams, another great songwriter.