Who made the first recording of "You Raise Me Up?"?
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"You Raise Me Up" is a popular song in the inspirational mold, written by Brendan Graham (lyrics) and Secret Garden's Rolf Løvland (melody). The song has now been recorded more than 125 times around the world in different languages. Løvland approached Graham to write the lyrics to his melody, after reading songwriter Graham's epic first novel - The Whitest Flower (Harper Collins).\n\nThe song, which is said to be very similar to the traditional Irish folk music song "Danny Boy", was originally just instrumental before Irish novelist and songwriter Brendan Graham put words to it. It was originally recorded by Irish singer Brian Kennedy on the 2001 album Once in a Red Moon and sold well in both Ireland and Norway. The song was also commonly used for 9/11 attack commemorations even though it had not been released in America.\n\nIt was subsequently recorded by Daniel O'Donnell in 2003 and was a hit throughout Ireland and the UK.\n\nLater in 2003, after hearing Brian Kennedy's original version, American Josh Groban recorded the song which proved very popular in the US. His version made it to the top of the Billboard AC Charts and remained there for 6 weeks. Josh Groban also performed it at Superbowl 2004, in a special NASA commemoration for the crew of the space shuttle Columbia disaster. A special surprise performance by Groban, for Oprah Winfrey's 50th birthday, also gave You Raise Me Up, massive international prominence. The Josh Groban recording also was nominated for a 2005 Grammy award.\n\nFive times World Champion figure skater, Michelle Kwan, skated to her ninth consecutive American National Championship Title in 2005, using You Raise Me Up as her short programme piece.\n\nAustralian Idol Top 12 contestant Daniel Belle sang it as a song for the song selection "Pop" in Australian Idol 2004 and it has become one of the most performed songs on similar Pop Idol and X Factor shows across the world.\n\nIn 2004 alone, the song has been played more than 500,000 times on American radio. In late 2005, there were over 80 scores available in USA alone, and it has become nominated for Gospel Music Awards four times, including "Song of the year".This version by Christian group Selah (with both verses included, as originally written) also went to No. 1 on Billboard's Christian Charts.\n\nThe song returned to glory back in Ireland when Irish boyband Westlife became the 100th artist to record the song. Westlife, brought the song around the world and brought it to number 1 in the United Kingdom and the band's and song's home of Ireland. Westlife won "Record of the year 2005" in the UK, and are tipped to do well at the Meteors in Ireland, it's their 15th Irish #1.\n\nBrian Kennedy has re-released the single after performing it at legendary Irish soccer player George Best's funeral, the song again climbing the UK Charts to No. 4 in January 2006 (named "George Best - A Tribute"). Brian has returned to the spotlight in Ireland once again after being named Ireland's 2006 entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nThe song was also released by Ronan Tynan, Sissel, Russell Watson, Celtic Woman, Tommy Fleming, Michael Ball, and the Celtic Tenors with Samantha Mumba, this time with an RnB flow to it. The most recent recording is by Il Divo - a Spanish version - "Por Ti Sere".\n\nRTE (Ireland's National TV) screened a Roy Esmonde produced documentary titled You Raise Me Up on New Year's Day 2006. First screened a year earlier, this updated edition included the most recent successes for the song, as well as the story of how the song first came to be written by Løvland and Graham.
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Shizuka Arakawa performed to two pieces of the music in her gala performance. The first one was (as you quite rightly point out) "You Raise Me Up", the second piece of music was "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1934 and you can hear the whole piece in MIDI format here
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"Got to Give it up" (part 1) by Marvin Gaye
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If you are referring to the song, then it was originally recorded by the Monotones.\n\nIf you mean a book, then it's claimed that the Apostle John wrote the book of love for the bible.
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You lift me up by Reba McEntire.\nWind beneath my wings by Bette Midler\nI'll fly away (Gospel)
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yes. but I raise up again
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Jerry Vale is the likely answer, although several singers have done that song.  Sinatra did it.  Johnny Cash did it.  Elvis did it, Oakridge Boys did it.  Nina Simone did it, Judy Garland did it.  Jerry Reed even did it.
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press the record button and sing
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What song were you singing?
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Chammilionaire ft. Lil Flip the name of the song iz "Turn it Up"
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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band made the first jazz recording,  "Livery Stable Blues", coupled with "Dixie Jass Band One Step,"  in 1917.\nThey weren't actually that great (note that most people have never heard of them), and it is said that the leader of the all-white band, Nick LaRocca, was a nasty racist who refused to admit that jazz was invented by black musicians.\nJoe Oliver, one of the great early jazz musicians and a mentor to Louis Armstrong, was actually offered the chance to record first but passed, fearing that other musicians would use the recording to copy his style.
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Yes, they recorded "Father of Mine." Good band!
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It started in the UK by Simon Fuller. It was called Pop Idol\nread more here..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Idol
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Herb Alpert's "Rise"...
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ya i am sure that kt tunstal was the first. thats a good song by the way :) i loved it when katharine mcphee sang it
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Cats in the cradle is a great song...yes harry chapin recorded it.  I love the version by Ugly Kid Joe though.
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The song was written by Ledbetter in the 1930's, and he had the original recording.