LOVE STORY (Robi)

"(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" is a popular song published in 1970, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman. The song was first introduced as an instrumental theme in the 1970 film Love Story. The lyrics were added after the theme music became popular.

The song has been covered many times. Andy Williams recorded originally and made the biggest hit version reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the adult contemporary chart for four weeks, in addition to #4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was also recorded by Lai himself (U.S. #31) with a full orchestra, and by Henry Mancini (U.S. #13), Vikki Carr, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, Rick Astley, Johnny Mathis, José José, Astrud Gilberto, Shirley Bassey, Patricia Kaas, Nana Mouskouri, Paul Mauriat, Donald Braswell II, and Richard Clayderman. Williams performed the song with Miss Piggy in an episode of The Muppet Show. There is also a Romanian cover of this song, by Aurelian Andreescu, as well as a French one by Mireille Mathieu, and Korean remake by G.Fla.In the Philippines, it was used as a theme song for the movie "In the name of love", Gary Valenciano performed the cover.

Immortal Technique used this song as a background in the song, Dance with the Devil.

Ray Conniff's version replaced the pronoun "she" (referring to Ali MacGraw's character in the film) with "you".

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• love story
• where do i begin
• ryan oneal
• andy willliams
• tony bennett
• robi caraveo