This autumn, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) – an independent charity which reviews university courses – launched a consultation that urged universities to teach a ‘decolonised view’ of mathematics. Mathematicians in British universities are now being asked to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum. Hatfield changed the melody in the final verse and many subsequent covers of the song are based on his version. Of the hundreds of recordings made, the Righteous Brothers' version, with a solo by Bobby Hatfield, became the jukebox standard after its release. It’s crazy that In 1955, three versions of the song (by Les Baxter, Al Hibbler, and Roy Hamilton) charted in the Billboard top 10 in the United States, and four versions (by Al Hibbler, Les Baxter, Jimmy Young, and Liberace) appeared in the top 20 in the United Kingdom simultaneously, a record for any song, yet a decade later this cover would be the songs most known version. He isn’t just singing a pretty song on key, he is conveying emotion and I always got chills when you get to the final part of the song, where he hits the high note and belts out “God speed your love, Toooooooo meeeeee” ![]() You can FEEL what he’s singing through his voice. ![]() It is the quintessential version of “Unchained Melody”, a song that originated in 1955 (sung by Todd Duncan) and since then has been covered over 1500 times all over the world! ![]() ![]() Their cover of the song quickly became THE version of the song.
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