She is the subject of the Plain White T’s 2006 song ” Hey There Delilah “, which reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007. She had met Plain White T’s singer Tom Higgenson through a mutual friend.
Tom Higgenson has been getting a lot of this since he and the rest of Chicago’s Plain White T’s – bad grammar there, but it’s too late to quibble with misused apostrophes now – watched their rather likeable summer ballad “Hey There Delilah” take over the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for a few weeks this past July.
She is the subject of the Plain White T’s 2006 song ” Hey There Delilah “, which reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007. She had met Plain White T’s singer Tom Higgenson through a mutual friend. Higgenson was inspired to write the song after meeting her.
She had met Plain White T’s singer Tom Higgenson through a mutual friend. Higgenson was inspired to write the song after meeting her.
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Yes, it was the year of “Hey There Delilah,” the chart-topping mega-hit from the Plain White T’s — and a long-distance love note to an athlete. After meeting Delilah DiCrescenzo in 2002, lead singer Tom Higgenson was smitten by the runner and promised a song in her honor.
How much is Tom Higgenson worth?
Plain White T’s make money from selling tickets to their concerts as well as from selling their albums. Therefore, Tom Higgenson has an estimated net worth of $3.5 million.
Tom detailed to Chicago Mag the story behind the song “Hey There Delilah”: ”I met a girl named Delilah [a competitive cross-country runner and graduate of Columbia University] in 2003 in Chicago.”. Higgenson went on to say:
It was produced by Ian Kirkpatrick and was released by Hollywood Records. Higgenson said about the album: ”We wanted to push ourselves outside of what the Plain White T’s are accustomed to–exploring different arrangements and striving to be more adventurous and exciting lyrically, musically, and thematically.”.
Who wrote the lyrics to Delilah?
According to an old Columbia College Today article, the real life Delilah, a competitive cross-country runner and graduate of Columbia University, never dated guitarist and frontman Tom Higgenson, who wrote the now-famous lyrics.
Well for Delilah DiCrescenzo in the summer of 2007, it was filled with the hit song “Hey There Delilah” by the Plain White T’s, which flooded the radio. This wouldn’t have been annoying (or at least, not that annoying) — except for the fact that the song was allegedly written about her.
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