Movie Music
This is the title song to the 1967 film To Sir With Love, which was directed, and produced by James Clavell. The film, which dealt with social issues in an inner city school. The movie starred Sidney Poitier as Mark Thackeray, the unemployed engineer who takes a job teaching in a touch East End of London school. Lulu is in the film as one of his students. She and many of the other students are moved by his effect on them, and she sings this song to him at the end of the film. In 1967-1968, the song went to #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, U.S. Cash Box Top 100, and in Canada. It went to #11 in the UK, #12 in New Zealand, and #18 in Australia.
Lulu was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. She’s famous for her songs “To Sir with Love,” “Shout,” “Boom Bang-a-Bang.” She sang also the title song for the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun.