Who Will Answer? (song)
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| "Who Will Answer?" | ||||
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| Single by Ed Ames | ||||
| from the album Who Will Answer? | ||||
| B-side | "My Love is Gone from Me" | |||
| Released | November 24, 1967 | |||
| Recorded | November 11, 1967 | |||
| Studio | RCA Victor's Music Center of the World, Hollywood, California, U.S. | |||
| Genre | Folk rock / Adult contemporary | |||
| Length | 3:42 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Sheila Davis, Luis Eduardo Aute | |||
| Producer(s) | Jim Foglesong | |||
| Ed Ames singles chronology | ||||
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"Who Will Answer?", released as a single in November 1967, is the title track from the 1968 album Who Will Answer? by the adult contemporary singer Ed Ames. Originally written as the Spanish song "Aleluya No. 1" by the Philippines-born Spanish singer-songwriter, poet and painter Luis Eduardo Aute, it was adapted into an English-language version with new lyrics by songwriter Sheila Davis.
Luis Eduardo Aute's Spanish-language song "Aleluya No. 1" became a number-one hit in Spain in spring 1967 and was well received in other Spanish-speaking countries. Subsequently, Eddie Deane, of the music publisher Sunbury Music, brought the song to Music Row executive Jim Foglesong, who worked with American singer Ed Ames. Deane played the Spanish instrumental version for Foglesong while reciting songwriter Sheila Davis' new English-language lyrics. Ames agreed to record it, and a recording session was held in November 1967 at RCA Victor's Music Center of the World Studios in Hollywood, California. It was arranged and conducted by Perry Botkin, Jr.[1]
Recorded in stereo as RCA Victor 9400 with the B-side "My Love Is Gone from Me",[2] the single shipped to distributors on November 24, 1967.[1] On the previous evening, Ames performed the song on the NBC late-night television talk show The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.[1]
A hit for Ames, the song reached #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 music singles chart, and #6 on that industry trade magazine's Adult Contemporary chart.[3] It was Ames' fourth charting single that year, following "My Cup Runneth Over", "Time, Time", and "When the Snow is on the Roses".[1] The song later appeared as the title track of Ames' 1968 album Who Will Answer?. In Canada the song reached #6 on the weekly charts.[4]