the righteous brothers song unchained melody in july 1965.
when did the righteous brothers song unchained melody?
july 1965
of the hundreds of recordings made, the righteous brothers' version in july 1965, with a solo by bobby hatfield, became the jukebox standard for the late 20th century. hatfield changed the melody and many subsequent covers of the song are based on his version. the righteous brothers recording achieved a second round of great popularity when featured in the film "ghost" in 1990. in 2004, it was number 27 on afi's 100 years...100 songs survey of top tunes in american cinema.





















































section::::origin of song.
unchained melody
in 1990, the original recording of "unchained melody" was featured in the popular feature film "ghost", starring patrick swayze and demi moore. it triggered an avalanche of requests to top 40 radio stations by fans who had seen the movie to play the 1965 righteous brothers' recording. this motivated polygram (which now owned the verve/mgm label archives) to re-release the song to top 40 radio. it became a major hit for a second time, reaching no. 13 on the hot 100 in 1990. it also become their second no. 1 in the uk. the duo quickly re-recorded another version of "unchained melody" for curb records. both the reissued and the re-recorded songs charted at the same time for several weeks, and the righteous brothers made history as the first act to have two versions of the same song in the top 20 at the same time. the re-recorded "unchained melody" hit no. 19 on the hot 100 and was certified platinum by the recording industry association of america (riaa).
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