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| | Hy Zaret | internet radio on icebergradio.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Far and away his biggest success, though, was "Unchained Melody," a song he co-wrote with underrated film composer Alex North for the 1955 prison film Unchained (hence the title). |
 | | Meanwhile, Zaret turned his attention to educational children's music in the late '50s, collaborating with Lou Singer on a six-album series dubbed Singing Science; different volumes covered space, energy and motion, experiments, weather, and nature. |
 | | The records were quite successful, and the song "Why Does the Sun ShineNULL" (aka "The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas") was even covered by quirky alt-rockers They Might Be Giants in 1994. |
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