Boy George
"The Crying Game"
(from the film The Crying Game)
(1992)
"The Crying Game" is a song written by Geoff Stephens. It was first released by Dave Berry in July 1964. It reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart. Session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan played lead guitar on this song. Jimmy Page supported.
The song was recorded by Brenda Lee in 1965 and also by Boy George in 1992, and both the latter and the original Dave Berry recordings were used as the theme to the Neil Jordan movie The Crying Game.
The Boy George version of the song was produced by the Pet Shop Boys and reached #22 on the UK Singles Chart in 1992, #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S., and #1 in Canada on the RPM 100 national singles chart the following year.
Hank Marvin did an instrumental of the song on his 1993 album Heartbeat.
In addition, the song has been covered by artists such as The Associates, Chris Connor, Kylie Minogue, Percy Sledge, Barbara Dickson, Chris Spedding, Jimmy Scott (on his 1998 album Holding Back the Years), and crooner Alex Moore.
The Boy George version of the song was featured in the Jim Carrey film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. This was a joke reference to the film The Crying Game, with which it shared a plot point.
"The Crying Game" is a song written by Geoff Stephens. It was first released by Dave Berry in July 1964. It reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart. Session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan played lead guitar on this song. Jimmy Page supported.
The song was recorded by Brenda Lee in 1965 and also by Boy George in 1992, and both the latter and the original Dave Berry recordings were used as the theme to the Neil Jordan movie The Crying Game.
The Boy George version of the song was produced by the Pet Shop Boys and reached #22 on the UK Singles Chart in 1992, #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S., and #1 in Canada on the RPM 100 national singles chart the following year.
Hank Marvin did an instrumental of the song on his 1993 album Heartbeat.
In addition, the song has been covered by artists such as The Associates, Chris Connor, Kylie Minogue, Percy Sledge, Barbara Dickson, Chris Spedding, Jimmy Scott (on his 1998 album Holding Back the Years), and crooner Alex Moore.
The Boy George version of the song was featured in the Jim Carrey film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. This was a joke reference to the film The Crying Game, with which it shared a plot point.
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