The Real best original song winner was actually: How Deep Is Your Love
by the Bee Gees.
shareThe Oscar winner was "You Light Up My Life."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th_Academy_Awards
"How Deep Is Your Love" wasn't even nominated for an Oscar. It was nominated for a Golden Globe, but again, "You Light Up My Life" won.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th_Golden_Globe_Awards#Best_Original_So ng
But I still think "How Deep Is Your Love" is a much better song.
:facepalm:.........I'm being sarcastic.
shareHard to tell sarcasm on the Internet until they perfect that font. But I still think "How Deep Is Your Love" is the much better song.
shareUh...yeah, and saying another song won when it actually did not is sarcasm, how?
A sarcastic comment would be, "They couldn't have picked a better song!" or "Boy, those 1977 Academy really were astute."
I suspect that what the OP meant to say, not sarcastically, was "'How Deep Is Your Love' should have won." (However, I think The Bee Gees had already written those songs used in SNF, so it would have been ineligible. The winner of those nominated should clearly have been, "Nobody Does it Better".)
Anyway, thus began--or continued-- the long-standing tradition of boneheaded Original Song selections. Two years later, "The Rainbow Connection" would lose to the theme from Norma Rae which no one remembers. And later still that overblown ballad from Prince of Egypt and "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" aren;t likely to be added to the great American songbook anytime soon either.
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