Tuesday, March 22, 2016

"The Look Of Love" by Burt Bacharach

I finally took a few minutes to take a nice warm bath last night and relax for a few minutes...

I've decided that I have to quit telling people that I've got a handle on the stress.  I had a couple of really good weeks, where I managed the stress very well.  But last week it was like "The Universe" upped the ante and the last few days I've really struggled...

Anyway, I was listening to my MP3 player in the bathroom and this song came on.  I know that opening riff by heart.  But for the life of me I couldn't figure out what song it was.

Funny, though, I knew it was the first track on one side of one of Burt Bacharach's first two A&M albums.  Sure enough, come to find out, it was the opening track on side 2 of the "Reach Out" album.

In going to post it this morning I went to the "official" Burt Bacharach one and discovered it was a completely different version.  Good but it doesn't have that immediately identifiable opening riff.  Turns out there are two official versions...

YouTube (origianl A&M): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDu1hYXFDk0
YouTube (new version?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoN2Egw_zN4
YouTube (Casino Royale): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPkp-pCJYCc
YouTube (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck57LnYScNQ

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