Movies!
By Noman Shah29/12/2010 Seen “Urban Cowboy” starring young John Travolta, what a movie it is!
Brief: “a 1980 American romantic drama film about the love-hate relationship between cowboy Bud Davis (John Travolta) and cowgirl Sissy (Debra Winger). The movie captured the late 1970s/early 1980s popularity of Country Music with John Travolta’s starring after Grease and Saturday Night Fever.
The movie spawned a hit soundtrack album featuring such songs as Johnny Lee’s “Lookin’ for Love”, Mickey Gilley’s “Stand by Me”, “Look What You’ve Done to Me” by Boz Scaggs, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” sung by the Charlie Daniels Band, the mega Anne Murray hit “Could I Have This Dance”(#3 A/C) and the top 5 hit “Love The World Away” by pop-country superstar Kenny Rogers. The film is said to have started the 80′s boom in pop-country music, known as the “Urban Cowboy Movement” also known as NeoCountry or Hill Boogie.
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