Ann-Margret started recording for RCA in 1961, but her recording career was not as successful as her concurrent movie career. She had a sexy, throaty singing voice comparable to Eartha Kitt or Nancy Sinatra, and RCA attempted to capitalize on her "Female Elvis" comparison by her recording a version of Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" and other songs stylistically similar to Presley. She scored one minor hit, "I Just Don't Understand" (which entered the Billboard Top 40 in the third week of August 1961 and stayed 6 weeks, peaking at #17.) Her only charting album is The Beauty and the Beard (1964), on which she was accompanied by trumpeter Al Hirt. The contract with RCA ended in 1966.
Years later, she returned to music at the end of Disco era. Her 1980 album, "Ann-Margret" became a success with both singles, "Midnight Message" and "Love Rush" reaching the Top 10 of the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. In the early 1980s, the album was followed up with the single, "Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes" and the B-Side "Hold Me/Squeeze Me." Ann Margret has continued to record music sporatically since then.
[edit]Film career
In 1961 she also made her film début for in Pocketful of Miracles, starring Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, and Hope Lange, a remake of the Oscar-winning 1933 film Lady for a Day; both versions were directed by the great Frank Capra. She followed that role with the successful remake of Rodgers' and Hammerstein's musical State Fair in 1962. Her next starring role, as the all-American teenager in Bye Bye Birdie, made her a major star. When she filmed Viva Las Vegas with Elvis Presley the two began an affair that received considerable attention from the gossip columnists in various media. The reports led to a showdown with a very worried Priscilla Beaulieu, which she recounts in her 1985 book, Elvis and Me, including Ann-Margret's attempt to "cut her off at the pass" with a press announcement that Ann-Margret and Elvis were engaged to be married. Although he ended the affair, Presley remained a friend and continued to send her flowers at the opening of each of her stage appearances until he died. Of all the Hollywood starlets he had worked with or had a relationship with, Ann-Margret was the only one to attend his funeral.
In 1963, Ann-Margret was featured and guest-starred, in animated form, in an episode of Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones as "Ann-Margrock." Decades later, she recorded the theme song to the live-action film The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas in character as Ann-Margrock. The song she recorded was a modified version of the "Viva Las Vegas" theme.\
In March 1966, Ann-Margret and entertainers Chuck Day and Mickey Jones teamed up for a USO tour to entertain U.S. servicemen in remote parts of Vietnam and other parts of Southeast Asia. She still has great affection for the veterans and refers to them as "my gentlemen". [1] Ann-Margret, Day and Jones reunited for an encore of this tour for veterans and troops at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada in November 2005. [2]
In 1971, she starred in Mike Nichols's Carnal Knowledge, marking a change from her sex-kitten musical roles, garnering a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The following year, while performing at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, she fell 22 feet from the stage and suffered injuries that put her out of commission for several months. Throughout the 1970s, Ann-Margret balanced her live performances with a string of critically acclaimed dramatic film performances that played against her glamorous image, including Tommy in 1975, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In addition, she has been nominated for ten Golden Globe Awards, winning five times including Best Actress for Tommy. She also did a string of successful TV specials, starting with The Ann-Margret Show for NBC in 1968. Now in her mid-60s, she continues to act in movies.
In 1994, she published an autobiography titled Ann Margret: My Story (ISBN 0-399-13891-9). She has been married to actor Roger Smith since 1967. Smith suffers from myasthenia gravis, and Ann-Margret has devoted much of her life to caring for him.
In 2001 Ann-Margret made her first appearance in a stage musical, playing the character of Mona Stangley in a new touring production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
She has also filmed the movie "Mem-o-re", where she stars with Billy Zane and Dennis Hopper.
I Ain't Got Nobody
Ann-Margret Lyrics
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And I begin to think it's true
It's awful hard to love someone
When they don't care about you
Once I had a lovin' gal
The sweetest little thing in town
But now she's gone and left me
Now I ain't got nobody, and nobody cares for me!
That's why I'm sad and lonely,
Won't somebody come and take a chance with me?
I'll sing you love songs, honey, all the time,
If you'll only say you'll be sweet gal of mine,
Oh, I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me!
I'll sing you love songs, honey, all the time,
If you'll only say you'll be sweet gal of mine,
Oh, I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me!
Ann-Margret's song, "I Ain't Got Nobody" is a melancholic tune that speaks about being alone and unloved by someone. The first verse of the song talks about how difficult it is to love someone when the other person doesn't reciprocate the same feelings. It's a sad truth that most people face in their lives where they fall for someone who doesn't feel the same way about them. The second verse is more personal and talks about how the singer had a loving partner in the past who left her, adding to her sadness and loneliness.
The chorus of the song comprises the most memorable and heart-wrenching lines of the song. It speaks about how the singer has nobody to care for her, and hence she's sad and lonely. She longs for someone to take a chance with her and be her sweet gal. The line is relatable to anyone who has ever felt alone and unloved in this world.
The last verse of the song is a plea to the hypothetical sweet gal that the singer is addressing throughout the tune. She promises to sing love songs all the time if only the girl would agree to be hers. The whole song encapsulates the feelings of loneliness and the longing for companionship that most of us experience in our lives.
Line by Line Meaning
There's been a sayin' goin' round
People have been talking lately about a commonly held belief
And I begin to think it's true
I'm starting to believe that it might be accurate
It's awful hard to love someone
It's extremely difficult to have feelings of affection for another person
When they don't care about you
Especially if those feelings aren't reciprocated
Once I had a lovin' gal
I used to have a girlfriend who loved me
The sweetest little thing in town
She was the most adorable and charming lady around
But now she's gone and left me
Sadly, she's departed from my life
She done turn me down
She rejected my advances and feelings towards her
Now I ain't got nobody, and nobody cares for me!
As a result, I am alone and no one seems to have any interest in me
That's why I'm sad and lonely,
I feel a deep sadness and sense of isolation
Won't somebody come and take a chance with me?
I hope that someone will give me an opportunity and take a risk on me
I'll sing you love songs, honey, all the time,
If someone does take that chance, I promise to express my love through songs
If you'll only say you'll be sweet gal of mine,
If they agree to be with me and reciprocate my feelings
Oh, I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me!
But until then, my loneliness persists
I'll sing you love songs, honey, all the time,
I'll continue to offer this promise
If you'll only say you'll be sweet gal of mine,
In hopes that someone will eventually say yes
Oh, I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me!
Because right now, it feels like nobody does
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: Roger Graham, Spencer Williams
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There's been a sayin' goin' round
And I begin to think it's true
It's awful hard to love someone
When they don't care about you
Once I had a lovin' gal
The sweetest little thing in town
But now she's gone and left me
She done turn me down
Now I ain't got nobody, and nobody cares for me!
That's why I'm sad and lonely,
Won't somebody come and take a chance with me?
I'll sing you love songs, honey, all the time,
If you'll only say you'll be sweet gal of mine,
Oh, I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me!
I'll sing you love songs, honey, all the time,
If you'll only say you'll be sweet gal of mine,
Oh, I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me!
osimnod
That is a complete package - voice, personality, presence, playfulness and class. No wonder she was successful.
Joe Sarver
agree!
jiannisDimi
She had a good voice, with gut tonality so long as she sung low... The moments she tried to be loud, she mixed the singing with speaking, and the tones did dissappear..
But she mixed this so perfectly, she was a pretty dancer, so she could sing in musicals. Dancing and singing together with be beautiful, thats Ann Margret
gutz1981
Not to mention she is a big motorbike fan and still rides a Harley in her 80s.
The Media
@jiannisDimi her voca register is a contralto so that makes sense
movierun
Ann-Margret was (is) actually shy and demure in real life - very dignified and lady-like. The aggressive "sex-kitten" persona was an act that she played very well. Very talented woman with enormous physical charisma.
Tracy Aplin
I find her annoying. And now I know why. It was all an act.
Soledad Luna
@Tracy Aplin Los artistas interpretan y ese es su hermoso trabajo. ¿Te crees acaso que todos los cantantes y actores se comportan en su vida personal como se comportan arriba de un escenario?
HansDelbruck53
She looked good in Carnal Knowledge.
Simon Richard
That would be what psychologists refer to as the alter-ego. Jimi Hendrix, believe it or not, was cut from the same cloth. Shy, polite... a “clean freak” according to his London gf. But when he got on stage it was a different story