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).
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The award is presented to the songwriters of a song written specifically for a motion picture. The performers of the song are not credited, unless they also have a writing or co-writing credit. 1961: "Town Without Pity" Lyrics by Ned Washington, Music by Dimitri Tiomkin – Town Without Pity‡ 1964: "Circus World" Lyrics by Ned Washington, Music by Dimitri Tiomkin – Circus World 1965: