We May Never Love Like This Again

Album: Academy Award Performance (1975)
Charted: 83
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Songfacts®:

  • This was the theme from the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. McGovern made a short appearance in the film.
  • Although this song was not much of a hit as a pop single, it won an Oscar for Best Original Song. One year after McGovern recorded it, it was included on her third album, Academy Award Performance.
  • Along with "The Morning After" (her biggest hit) and the Oscar-nominated song "Wherever Love Takes Me" (from the 1974 disaster film "Gold"), this song led the media to called McGovern "the Disaster Theme Queen." >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for all above

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 8th 1975, Maureen McGovern performed "We May Never Love This Way Again"* on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #83 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, and that was also its peak position on the chart...
    Between 1973 and 1979 she had six Top 100 records; with one making the Top 10 and that one reached #1, "The Morning After"* for two weeks on July 29th, 1973...
    * Both "We May Never Love This Way Before" and "The Morning After" won the Academy Award for 'Best Original Song'.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyMaureen's version peaked at No. 83 on the Billboard's Single charts!!!
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