Round 8: Tossup 4

Just before his death, Elvis Presley performed this song to surprise the crowd in Rapid City, South Dakota. Simon Cowell broke through as a records executive in 1995 via a recording of this song, after (15[1])spending several months harassing Soldier Soldier actors Robson Green and Jerome Flynn into singing it. Phil Spector hounded radio stations to get them to stop playing a release of this song, after he failed to bury it as the B-side to “Just Once in My Life;” that 1965 recording’s (*) high-pitched final verse melody was the personal touch of Bobby Hatfield. This song plays from a record player that appears to start on its own accord (-5[1])in a 1990 film starring Demi Moore. Alex North composed this prison film theme, (10[1])which was revived by the pottery wheel scene in Ghost. For 10 points, the Righteous Brothers made a hit recording of what song known as its namesake film’s “melody?” ■END■ (10[1])

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