Ocean Drive (album)
Ocean Drive is the debut album released by UK duo Lighthouse Family in 1995 on Wildcard / Polydor Records. The album produced one Top 10 hit ("Lifted") and three Top 20 hits ("Ocean Drive", "Goodbye Heartbreak" and "Loving Every Minute").The album spent 154 weeks on the UK album chart and achieved 6 times platinum sales of 1,8 million copies.
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711 Ocean Drive
711 Ocean Drive is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Joseph M. Newman. The drama features Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru and Otto Kruger.
Plot
Knowing how much telephone repairman Mal Granger (Edmond O'Brien) likes to bet on the horses, small-time bookmaker Chippie Evans (Sammy White) proposes a scheme in which Granger's technical expertise would provide gangster Vince Walters (Barry Kelley) with race results in advance.
Granger accepts and also takes an interest in Walters' attractive assistant, Trudy (Dorothy Patrick), but she is arrested. Granger's new method of getting track information to the bookies makes him invaluable. He threatens to cut Walters off unless he is made a 20% partner. Walters gives in. When Walters tries to collect from a bookie who owes him, the bookie kills first Walters, then himself. Granger takes control of the wire service, making him a target for Lieutenant Wright (Howard St. John) of the Los Angeles Police.
East Coast mobster Larry Mason (Don Porter) is sent by boss Karl Stevens (Otto Kruger) to persuade Granger to join the Syndicate. He travels west with his wife Gail (Joanne Dru). Granger decides to accept a 50/50 split with his new partners. Some of the independent bookies do not like the new arrangement (and the extra 20% "protection" fee) and refuse to go along. They are roughed up by Syndicate goons.
Ocean Drive
Ocean Drive may refer to:
Locations
- Ocean Drive (South Beach) in South Beach, Miami, Florida
- Ocean Drive (New Jersey), a road along the Atlantic Ocean from Atlantic City to Cape May in New Jersey, USA
- Ocean Drive along the south shore of Newport, Rhode Island, also the Ocean Drive Historic District, a U.S. National Historic Landmark
- Ocean Drive (North Myrtle Beach), in South Carolina
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Music
- Ocean Drive (song), a song by the Lighthouse Family from that album
Ocean Drive (song)
"Ocean Drive" is a song written by British duo Lighthouse Family, for their debut album, Ocean Drive (1996). The song was produced by Mike Peden. It was released as the second single in October 1995 and reached the top 40 in the United Kingdom. It was later re-released in May 1996 and reached the top 20 in the United Kingdom. The song was slightly remixed for this single release, with new vocals. This version also appeared on their 2002 greatest hits album.
Background and writing
The song was written in 1989 by Paul Tucker. He wrote and composed the lyrics, but he did not sing it; when the Lighthouse Family formed, Tunde Baiyewu provided the vocals.
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