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March 26, 2025 - Prima and Smith, Jo Stafford and Roberta Flack Permeate Movies While Beatlemania Memories Are Jogged

Currently in theaters: The Alto Knights, starring Robert De Niro in two different based-on-real-life mobster roles, features several vintage songs including two hits from the 1950s: "That Old Black Magic" by Louis Prima and Keely Smith and Jo Stafford's number one smash "You Belong to Me." Spy thriller Black Bag, starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, gives us a treat: Gene McDaniels' classic composition "Compared to What," recorded by the late, great Roberta Flack on her 1969 debut album First Take.

Meanwhile, John Lennon and Paul McCartney's "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (the song that sent The Beatles soaring in early 1964 and created the opportunity for many other British artists to follow them successfully onto America's shores) can be heard on a commercial for Uber.




Hall of Fame I Want to Hold Your Hand

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