The Look of Love (1967 song) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

"The Look of Love" is a popular

Popular music

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song

Song

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composed by Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach

Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...

and Hal David

Hal David

Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...

and sung by Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...

, which appeared in the 1967 spoof James Bond

James Bond

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film Casino Royale

Casino Royale (1967 film)

Casino Royale is a 1967 comedy spy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is set as a satire of the James Bond film series and the spy genre, and is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.The film stars David Niven as the...

Songwriters

The music was written by Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach

, and was originally intended to be an instrumental. But later Hal David

Hal David

Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...

added the lyrics, and the song was published in 1967

1967 in music

The summer of 1967 is "The Summer of Love" in San Francisco. It also became an important year for psychedelic rock, with releases from The Beatles The summer of 1967 is "The Summer of Love" in San Francisco. It also became an important year for psychedelic rock, with releases from The Beatles The...

. According to Bacharach, the melody was inspired by watching Ursula Andress

Ursula Andress

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in an early cut of the film.

Early recordings

The song was originally recorded by Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

for the Casino Royale

Casino Royale (1967 film)

soundtrack, receiving an Oscar nomination and reaching the US Top 40. (Soundtrack engineered by Phil Ramone and recorded separately from the rest of the film tracks) Springfield re-recorded the song the same year in London, featuring a throaty saxophone solo, and released it as the B-side of "Give Me Time". Claudine Longet

Claudine Longet

Claudine Georgette Longet is a French singer and recording artist who was popular during the 1960s and 1970s. She is also an actress and a dancer.Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975...

recorded the song on her 1967 album of the same title

The Look of Love (Claudine Longet album)

The Look of Love was Claudine Longet's second LP album. The sessions were arranged by Nick De Caro and engineered by Bruce Botnick. In the U.S., The Look of Love reached # 33 on the Billboard pop albums chart.-Track listing:...

. Lainie Kazan also recorded "The Look of Love" (arranged by Pat Williams) on her 1967 album Love is Lainie. Nina Simone

Nina Simone

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also recorded "The Look of Love" in 1967 on her album Silk & Soul

Silk & Soul

Silk & Soul is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone.-Information about songs on this album:*"It Be's That Way Sometime", a song written by Nina's brother Sam Waymon....

. Sérgio Mendes

Sergio Mendes

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' hit rendition on the Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 album Look Around

Look Around (Sergio Mendes album)

Look Around is the third album by Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66, with vocalists Lani Hall and Janis Hansen. It was released in 1968. Mendes burst into mainstream prominence when he performed the Oscar-nominated Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "The Look of Love" on the Academy Awards telecast in March...

reached #4 on the pop charts after their performance in the Academy Awards

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telecast in March 1968. The lead vocal on this single was handled by Janis Hansen, not Lani Hall, a rarity in the early Brasil '66 canon. Soul group The Delfonics

The Delfonics

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also covered the song in 1968 on their album La La Means I Love You

La La Means I Love You (album)

La La Means I Love You is the debut album by American soul group The Delfonics, released in 1968 on the Philly Groove label. The album was produced by Thom Bell and consists of a mixture of original songs written by Bell and lead singer William Hart, and cover versions of already well-known songs...

Isaac Hayes

During 1970, Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes

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covered the song for his 1970 album ...To Be Continued

...To Be Continued

...To Be Continued is a studio album by American soul musician Isaac Hayes, issued in 1970 on Stax Records' Enterprise label. The LP includes Hayes' cover of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David composition "The Look of Love", which was issued as a single in an edited form, peaking at #79 on the Billboard...

. While Hayes used the same lyrics, his cover includes a unique instrumental which has been heavily sampled on R&B and hip-hop records.

El Chicano

Released on their 1970 Album entitled Viva Tirado El Chicano

El Chicano

El Chicano is an American chicano rock and brown-eyed soul group from Los Angeles, California, whose style incorporates various modern music genres including rock, funk, soul, blues, jazz, and salsa...

covered The Look Of Love

The Look of Love

- Songs :* "The Look of Love" , a popular song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David* "The Look of Love" * "The Look of Love" * "The Look of Love"...

. The song was one of nine songs released on this initial album which included the number one hit "Viva Tirado".

Additional recordings

El Chicano

on their initial album "Viva Tirado" featuring their number one single "Viva Tirado"

The Tymes

The Tymes

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on their 1969 album "People".

The Zombies

The Zombies

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(during live performances)

Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack

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Dionne Warwick

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Diana Ross & The Supremes (Ross would cover the song again decades later, solo)

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye

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Gladys Knight & The Pips

Gladys Knight & the Pips

Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul" record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight...

Reuben Wilson

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The Meters

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Ahmad Jamal

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Barbara Acklin

Barbara Jean Acklin was an American soul singer and songwriter who was most successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her biggest hit as a singer was "Love Makes a Woman" in 1968...

Willie Bobo

Willie Bobo was the stage name of William Correa , an American jazz percussionist.-Biography:William Correa grew up in Spanish Harlem, New York City. He made his name in Latin Jazz, specifically Afro-Cuban jazz, in the 1960s and '70s, with the timbales becoming his favoured instrument...

Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...

Jack Jones

Jack Jones (singer)

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Odell Brown

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David T. Walker

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Gene Harris

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Tony Joe White

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Susanna Hoffs

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Grover Washington, Jr.

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Jean Carne

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Nina Simone

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Dominique Dalcan

Dominique Dalcan is a French electronic musician and film composer.He was born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon.He collaborated with French musician Hector Zazou on his "Sahara Blue" album, alongside Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto....

Slum Village

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Barney Kessel

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Faye Wong

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Amanda Lear

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Ronan Keating

Ronan Patrick John Keating is an Irish recording artist, singer-songwriter, musician, and philanthropist. Keating debuted on the professional music scene alongside Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately, in 1994 as the lead singer of Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999, and...

on the album "When Ronan Met Burt

When Ronan Met Burt

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" (2011)

Kelly Harland

Vanilla Fudge

Vanilla Fudge

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The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, under the Direction of Lee Castle

Diana Krall

Diana Krall

Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the 1990s and 2000s...

(with the London Symphony Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra

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) for the album "The Look of Love" (2006) and Live in Paris (2002). Krall's record went platinum and made the top 10 of the Billboard 200. It topped the Canadian album charts and went quadruple platinum in Canada.

Sitti Navarro

Sitti Navarro

Sitti Katrina Navarro , also known as Sitti, is a Filipino bossa nova singer. After releasing her first album, Café Bossa, in 2006, other bossa nova acts in the Philippines followed. Navarro is also featured in the segment "A.S.A.P. Sessionistas" of the variety show ASAP...

(Philippine bossa nova

Bossa nova

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singer), My Bossa Nova

My Bossa Nova

My Bossa Nova is the second studio album of Philippine bossa nova singer Sitti. Unlike her previous studio album, Café Bossa, this album focused on more recent songs and had very few "traditional" bossa nova songs...

Tina Arena

Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist...

(Australian singer and songwriter), Songs of Love & Loss

Songs of Love & Loss

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(2007)

Trijntje Oosterhuis

Trijntje Oosterhuis

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Shelby Lynne

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, Just a Little Lovin'

Just a Little Lovin' (Shelby Lynne album)

Just a Little Lovin' is the tenth studio album by Shelby Lynne, released in the United States and Canada on January 29, 2008. The album is a tribute to British singer Dusty Springfield, and features covers of nine songs popularized by her, in addition to "Pretend", an original song written by Lynne...

(pays tribute to Dusty Springfield)

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

, commonly abbreviated by fans as Skapara or TSPO, is a Japanese ska and jazz band officially formed in 1988 by the percussionist Asa-Chang, and initially composed of over 10 veterans of Tokyo's underground scene...

(a reggae version) Moods for Tokyo Ska: We Don't Know What Ska Is (1997)

Chris Botti

Chris Botti

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, A Thousand Kisses Deep (2003) (Chantal Kreviazuk

Chantal Kreviazuk

Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, and can play the guitar.-Albums:...

provides the guest vocals). Botti also recorded it on Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests (2006) with Paula Cole

Paula Cole

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and Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach

.

Composer/multi-instrumentalist, Robert Shames, arranged a noteworthy version for string quartet in 2007 to much critical acclaim.

Sergio Mendes

Sergio Mendes

Sérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....

(featuring Fergie) (from the album Encanto

Encanto (Sergio Mendes album)

Encanto is an album from Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes. It is his thirty-sixth studio album to date. It is also his second work with collaboration from personnel of The Black Eyed Peas.-Track list:-Release history:-Charts:-External links:*...

)

Julian Lloyd Webber

Julian Lloyd Webber

Julian Lloyd Webber is a British solo cellist who has been described as the "doyen of British cellists".-Early life:Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and his wife Jean Johnstone . He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber...

recorded a version for cello in 2006.

Jimmy Sommers, Time Stands Still" (2006)

Steve Cole

Steve Cole

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Moonlight (2010)

Anita Baker

Anita Baker

Anita Baker is an American R&B/soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit....

Rhythm of Love (1994)

Eliot Lewis Master Plan (released June, 2003); Eliot Lewis - The Originals (released Sept. 2010)

Larry Goldings

Larry Goldings

-Life and career:Goldings was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a classical music enthusiast, and Larry studied classical piano until the age of twelve. While in high school at Concord Academy, he attended a program at the Eastman School of Music. During this period Erroll Garner,...

When Larry Met Harry: Larry Goldings & Harry Allen (2010)

External links

Sérgio Mendes interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' July 2008

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