simple minds sang it going to take a miracle.
simple minds sang it going to take a miracle.
who sang it going to take a miracle?
simple minds
"we had a lot of hit records (with dcp) but we hadn’t received any royalties,” said strain. “we protested and said we’re not going into the studio anymore until we get an accounting. we didn’t record for about eight or nine months. in the interim, teddy randazzo produced a girl group out of baltimore called the royalettes. he gave them a song called 'it’s gonna take a miracle' which was written for little anthony & the imperials. when it first came out, everybody thought it was us. he also produced derek martin who had a hit called 'you better go.' but we missed a million seller with 'gonna take a miracle' when we went on strike with the record company."
it's gonna take a miracle
the second television special, this time for france was titled "céline dion, le grand show" and broadcast on 24 november 2012 on france 2. dion performed four songs from "sans attendre": "parler à mon père", "l'amour peut prendre froid" with johnny hallyday, "le miracle" and "qui peut vivre sans amour?". the show included performances by many various artists who sang their own songs or dion's tributes. she also performed duets with patrick bruel on "qui a le droit...", florent pagny on "j'irai où tu iras" and michel sardou on "voler", and sang few of her hits. the television special became the second most-watched show that night, drawing an audience of 4,874,000 viewers and losing only slightly to "danse avec les stars" with 5,040,000 million followers. on 28 november 2012, during "c à vous" on france 5 dion performed "la mer et l'enfant". on 2 december 2012, she appeared in "chabada" on france 3 and sang three songs from "sans attendre": "le miracle", "ne me quitte pas" with florent pagny, and "parler à mon père". she also performed some duets with artists invited to the show. the episode dedicated to dion became a great success with 1.5 million viewers, setting a record for "chabada". also on 2 december 2012, dion sang "parler à mon père" on "vivement dimanche" on france 2. on 17 december 2012, she appeared on france 3 on a show called "céline en toute intimité". dion was interviewed by the host and performed selected songs from "sans attendre", including "si je n'ai rien de toi", "le miracle", "attendre" and "l'amour peut prendre froid" with johnny hallyday. the show also included fragments form the canadian television special. on 20 december 2012, dion was the guest of honour in another television special titled "we love céline" on nrj 12. she sang "parler à mon père", "qui peut vivre sans amour?" and "le miracle". dion also performed a duet with maurane on "quand on n'a que l'amour" and sang "pour que tu m'aimes encore" a cappella with chimène badi. many other artists paid her tributes singing her songs, including stanislas who performed "moi quand je pleure". during dion's promotional visit in france in november 2012, she has also recorded a performance of "ne me quitte pas" for "simplement pour un soir" which was broadcast on 12 january 2013 on france 2. the promotion for "sans attendre" ended on 20 january 2013, when a performance of "le miracle" filmed in november 2012, was shown on "vivement dimanche".
sans attendre