Academy Award Performance: And the Envelope, Please 34 seconds of the song "Thanks for the Memory" then fades into the next song ("The Continental," the oldest movie theme on this album). "Thanks for the Memory" is also the last track on the album and continues where it left off but fades immediately after the next verse. There were two singles to come from this album: "We May Never Love Like This Again" (from "The Towering Inferno", which was a minor hit for McGovern one year before) and "The Continental" (from the 1934 film "The Gay Divorcee", which was the very first song to ever win an Oscar).
Academy Award for Best Original Song always been five nominees, except in 2013 when one was disqualified. The first film to receive multiple nominations was "Fame" in 1980. Only four films have featured three nominated songs: "Beauty and the Beast", "The Lion King", "Dreamgirls", and "Enchanted". "Dreamgirls" and "Enchanted" lost on every nomination: "An Inconvenient Truth" original song "I Need to Wake Up" defeated all three of the nominated songs from "Dreamgirls", while "Falling Slowly" from "Once" defeated all three of "Enchanted"s nominations. After these two consecutive defeats, a new rule was instated in June 2008 that a film could have no more than two songs