Run Samson Run
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"Run Samson Run" is song written by Neil Sedaka
and Howard Greenfield
and sung by Neil Sedaka
. It appears on his album Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits
. The song was included in Neil Sedaka Sings His Greatest Hits
(1959–1963).
The single was released in 1961. It became a hit in US reaching #28 on the US Billboard Chart. The musical accompaniment is by Stan Applebaum and His Orchestra.
The lyrics take the Biblical story of Samson
and Delilah
adapting it to a modern love affair and comment on relationship between men and women.
female singer CHANG Loo (張露) (1932-2009), covered this song, under title name of Run Samson Run/英雄美人, in alternate English
and Mandarin Chinese language, on her LP album An Evening With Chang Loo with EMI Columbia Records
.
Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka is an American pop/rock singer, pianist, and composer. His career has spanned nearly 55 years, during which time he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard...
and Howard Greenfield
Howard Greenfield
Howard Greenfield was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building...
and sung by Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka is an American pop/rock singer, pianist, and composer. His career has spanned nearly 55 years, during which time he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard...
. It appears on his album Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits
Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits
Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits is a solo album by Neil Sedaka released in 1961 immediately after the cover versions of earlier hits in Circulate.-Track listing:...
. The song was included in Neil Sedaka Sings His Greatest Hits
Neil Sedaka Sings His Greatest Hits
Neil Sedaka Sings His Greatest Hits is a compilation of twelve of the most popular hits of Neil Sedaka's tenure with RCA Victor Records.-Tracklist:#"Next Door To An Angel" #"Oh! Carol" #"King of Clowns" #"Stairway to Heaven"...
(1959–1963).
The single was released in 1961. It became a hit in US reaching #28 on the US Billboard Chart. The musical accompaniment is by Stan Applebaum and His Orchestra.
The lyrics take the Biblical story of Samson
Samson
Samson, Shimshon ; Shamshoun or Sampson is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ....
and Delilah
Delilah
Delilah appears only in the Hebrew bible Book of Judges 16, where she is the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall...
adapting it to a modern love affair and comment on relationship between men and women.
Cover Versions
In 1963, Hong KongHong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
female singer CHANG Loo (張露) (1932-2009), covered this song, under title name of Run Samson Run/英雄美人, in alternate English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and Mandarin Chinese language, on her LP album An Evening With Chang Loo with EMI Columbia Records
Columbia Graphophone Company
The Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom. Under EMI, as Columbia Records, it became a very successful label in the 1950s and 1960s...
.