Fact #191996
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Short story:
Bette Midler releases a new single, From A Distance, on Atlantic Records in the USA. It will peak at No2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, and will win a Grammy for Song Of The Year in 1991. The song, written by Julie Gold, was previously recorded by Nanci Griffith.
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Julie Gold (composer) : From A Distance is a song that I wrote in 1985. At the time I was a secretary at HBO and just about to turn 30. My brother was just about to get married and I had just served as a juror on a very emotional and complex trial - you could say I was a bubbling cauldron of emotion.
For my 30th birthday present, my parents sen t me the piano I had grown up playing. I'd been without it for the eight years I had lived in New York. I'll never forget how it glistened in the sun on that cold winter's day when the movers took it off the truck and placed it in my apartment. They warned me not to play it for 24 hours because it was so cold from shipping. Here I was, finally reunited with my best friend and confidante, and all I could do was polish it and hug it.
All night long I woke up and looked down on it from my loft bed just to make sure it was really there. The next day, when I finally played it, I wrote From A Distance. I am sure I was granted that moment, and that song, by God.
(Source : Inspirations, by Michael Randolfi, Mike Read and David Stark; Sanctuary, 2002)
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For my 30th birthday present, my parents sen t me the piano I had grown up playing. I'd been without it for the eight years I had lived in New York. I'll never forget how it glistened in the sun on that cold winter's day when the movers took it off the truck and placed it in my apartment. They warned me not to play it for 24 hours because it was so cold from shipping. Here I was, finally reunited with my best friend and confidante, and all I could do was polish it and hug it.
All night long I woke up and looked down on it from my loft bed just to make sure it was really there. The next day, when I finally played it, I wrote From A Distance. I am sure I was granted that moment, and that song, by God.
(Source : Inspirations, by Michael Randolfi, Mike Read and David Stark; Sanctuary, 2002)