Single:
Burning Bridges entered the Australian singles chart* on 5 October 1970 and peaked at #12. The song was #54 on the Top 100 of 1970.
Songwriter:
Lalo Schifrin
Producer:
Mike Curb
Record label of Australian release:
MGM
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
Burning Bridges is the theme song of the 1970 Clint Eastwood comedy Kelly’s Heroes. The film is a typical example of Eastwood’s deadpan humor; Kelly is an American soldier who discovers a horde of gold bars stashed in a bank behind enemy lines, so he recruits a group of renegades to rob it. The song bears no real relation to the film although it could be interpreted as a former soldier reminiscing about the good old days of the war.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/mike-curb-congregation/burning-bridges
Wikpedia:
The film score was composed, arranged, and conducted by Lalo Schifrin, while the soundtrack album was released by MGM Records in 1970. The President of MGM Records, Mike Curb, wrote two songs for the film, with his group the Mike Curb Congregation performing on a number of the songs.
The main musical theme of the film is Burning Bridges, sung by the Mike Curb Congregation with music by Schifrin. It reached #34 on the Billboard US Hot 100 singles chart; but it did much better in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa where it reached #1 on the charts.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly’s_Heroes
Lyrics:
Friends all tried to warn me
But I held my head up high
All the time they warned me
But I only passed them by
They all tried to tell me
But I guess I didn’t care
I turned my back and
Left them standing there
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