His vocals remind me so much of old England Dan and John Ford Coley songs. John from Newport News, VaWhile Luther's version is good, I much prefer Davis Barrett's original.The song is available as a CD Single on his website: Īdditionally, there are different versions available through iTunes, including the current version used, sung by Luther Vandross.
To my knowledge, this is the ONLY time that this version of the song was aired. The Chicago White Sox used the version with "The Gun Goes Off" to close their telecast on the final game at Comiskey Park on September 30th, 1990. And so having the first line fall into place as it did was poetic and true." Ironically - I wrote the song about basketball (after watching Larry Bird) but for some reason (who knows what I was thinking?!?) I didn't write it into the original first line. The original line was, the gun goes off.which I changed to suit the tournament. "My daughter informed me that they claim that the initial line was the ball is kicked. Contrary to poular belief, the first line in the song was NOT changed from "The Ball is Kicked" to "The Ball is Tipped." In his reply, he said: Barrett through his website, asking if this version existed. Bill from Fort Wayne, InJust a comment on the "Ball is kicked" line being changed.Karel from Amsterdam, NetherlandsDoes anyone know if the Luther Vandross version is available on CD or CD-single somewhere?.Charlene Miller from Toledo,ohioMy all time favorite sport song and love Luther Vandross.My team lost today tOSU, but I'll watch March Madness till the end just to hear One Shining Moment!.Barrett and the network gave permission, saying we’re all in this together.Ĭopyright 2020 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved. Multiple schools released renditions of the song, celebrating their best moments of the season.īarrett owns the song he wrote on a napkin so many years ago, but CBS has exclusive rights to it, so anyone wanting to use it needs permission. ‘Is it OK - we made the tournament for the first time, and our moment was stolen.’” “Yesterday I spoke to Penn State,” Barrett said. The NCAA Tournament was canceled due to the coronavirus this year, but that didn’t stop “One Shining Moment.” Individual schools started reaching out to Barrett. When you work really hard and there is that moment - basketball is a metaphor for so many things in life.”
The song has been used after the tournament ever since to tell the story of hard work, passion, victory and defeat. “I had no idea what they were going to do,” Barrett said. The network liked it a lot and put together the first montage when Indiana beat Syracuse in 1987. I’m going to write about this.”īarrett paired the lyrics to music, and that’s when his friend, Armen Keteyia, of Sports Illustrated, took the cassette to CBS Sports. So I wrote down the song title on a napkin. The song itself was written in 1986 by a composer from Hazlett, Michigan, who was inspired by Larry Bird at the height of his career. The “One Shining Moment” montage at the end of the madness. The iconic song was written by a man from Ann Arbor, and he spoke with Local 4 on the day his song should have capped off the popular tournament. – “One Shining Moment” is a time-honored part of the NCAA Tournament championship game, and it would have been played Monday night if the season hadn’t been canceled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19).
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