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  1. The Crying Game • Theme Song • Boy George. Stand By Your Man , Lyle Lovett , 1989. TAMMY WYNETTE & LYLE LOVETT - STAND BY YOUR MAN (1993) View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1993 Vinyl release of "The Crying Game / Stand By Your Man" on Discogs.

    • US
    • 1993
    • Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Jukebox, Red
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    At a rural Northern Irish fairground, a Provisional IRA volunteer named Fergus (Stephen Rea) and a unit of other IRA members, led by Peter Maguire (Adrian Dunbar), kidnap a British soldier named Jody (Forest Whitaker) after a female member of their unit, Jude (Miranda Richardson), lures Jody to a secluded area by promising sex. The unit intends to ...

    Neil Jordan first drafted the screenplay in the mid-1980s under the title The Soldier's Wife, but shelved the project after a similar film was released. A 1931 short story by Frank O'Connor called Guests of the Nation, in which IRA soldiers develop a bond with their English captives, whom they are ultimately forced to kill,partly inspired the story...

    The film was shown at festivals in Italy, the United States and Canada in September, and originally released in Ireland and the UK in October 1992, where it failed at the box office. Director Neil Jordan, in later interviews, attributed this failure to the film's heavily political undertone, particularly its sympathetic portrayal of an IRA fighter....

    The soundtrack to the film, The Crying Game: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, released on 23 February 1993, was produced by Anne Dudley and Pet Shop Boys. Boy George scored his first hit since 1987 with his recording of the title song – a song that had been a hit in the 1960s for British singer Dave Berry. The closing rendition of Tammy Wynette'...

    Cronenberg, David (2006). David Cronenberg: Interviews with Serge Grünberg. Plexus Publishing. ISBN 0859653765.
    Rodley, Chris, ed. (1997). Cronenberg on Cronenberg. Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571191371.
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  2. Composed by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill. Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd. Performed by Lyle Lovett. Recording Courtesy of MCA Records. The Crying Game. Composed by Geoff Stephens. Published by Peermusic (UK) Ltd. Performed by Boy George. Produced by Pet Shop Boys.

  3. Feb 23, 2015 · The singer and the future First Lady eventually cleared the air, and less than a year later the song resurfaced in a version sung by Lyle Lovett for the Academy Award-winning film, The Crying Game ...

  4. Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for The Crying Game / Stand By Your Man by Boy George / Lyle Lovett. Compare versions and buy on Discogs.

    • (19)
    • Electronic, Pop
    • 25
    • Downtempo, Synth-pop
  5. The closing rendition of Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man" was performed by American singer Lyle Lovett. Professional ratings. "The Crying Game" – Boy George. "When a Man Loves a Woman" – Percy Sledge. "Live for Today" (Orchestral) – Cicero and Sylvia Mason-James. "Let the Music Play" – Carroll Thompson (credited as Carol Thompson)

  6. The Crying Game / Stand By Your Man, a Single by Boy George / Lyle Lovett. Released in 1993 on SBK (catalog no. S7-56996-A; Vinyl 7"). Genres: Synthpop, Film Soundtrack.