Maureen McGovern

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Maureen McGovern (* 27. July 1949 in Youngstown , Ohio ) is an American singer and Broadway - Actress .

Live and act

After McGovern graduated from high school in 1967 , she worked as a secretary and sang in a folk band called Sweet Rain . 20th Century Records undertook in 1972 McGovern as a singer for the title song The Morning After the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure , written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn . The song reached number 1 on the US Billboard charts in 1973 and was awarded an Oscar . In the two following years she sang again the title songs for the films Flammendes Inferno and Gold , for the song We May Never Love Like This Again there was another Oscar ( 1975 ). There was an Oscar nomination for Wherever Love Takes Me .

In the early 1980s McGovern starred in various Broadway productions. In the middle of the decade she gradually resumed her solo career and became the interpreter of numerous compositions of the Great American Songbook . She dedicated one CD each to the work of Harold Arlen (Out of This World), George Gershwin (Naughty Baby) and Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (The Music Never Ends). In 1989 she sang for the first time at Carnegie Hall . In 1996 and 1997 McGovern was nominated for a Grammy .

In 2008 she released A Long and Winding Road, an album with cover versions of famous pop songs by Paul Simon , Bob Dylan , James Taylor , Lennon / McCartney and others.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US
1973 The Morning After US77 (16 weeks)
US

More albums

  • 1974: Nice to Be Around
  • 1975: Academy Award Performance
  • 1979: Maureen McGovern
  • 1987: Another Woman in Love
  • 1988: State of the Heart
  • 1989: Naughty Baby
  • 1992: Baby I'm Yours
  • 1996: Out of This World
  • 1997: The Music Never Ends
  • 1998: Christmas With Maureen McGovern
  • 1998: The Pleasure of His Company
  • 2008: A Long and Winding Road

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK US US
1973 The Morning After
The Morning After 		- US1
gold
gold

(15 weeks)US
I Won't Last a Day Without You
The Morning After 		- US89 (5 weeks)
US
1974 Give Me a Reason to Be Gone
Nice to Be Around 		- US71 (7 weeks)
US
We May Never Love Like This Again
Academy Award Performance 		- US83 (4 weeks)
US
1976 The Continental
Academy Award Performance 		UK16 (8 weeks)
UK 		-
1978 Can You Read My Mind
Maureen McGovern 		- US52 (9 weeks)
US
1979 Different Worlds
Maureen McGovern 		- US18 (16 weeks)
US

More singles

  • 1974: Nice to Be Around
  • 1975: Even Better Than I Know Myself
  • 1975: Love Songs Are Getting Harder to Sing
  • 1978: Very Special Love
  • 1979: Can't Take My Eyes off You
  • 1980: We Could Have It All
  • 1980: Bottom Line
  • 1981: Halfway Home
  • 1987: I Could Have Been a Sailor
  • 1988: The Same Moon
  • 1992: You Belong To Me
  • 1996: Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
personal data
SURNAME McGovern, Maureen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and Broadway actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Youngstown , Ohio