CraigGA
Well-Known Member
I got the impression that this was how it started! I wish the end result had a more contemporary arrangement but the one it has is well suitable. I really enjoy the one arranged for the Bruce Forsyth Show. Karen sang it as it was intended, I believe. It simply does not get any better!Thank you for bringing up Albert Hammond, I had forgotten that he collaborated on the song also. I went back and took another look at the Japanese documentary "I Need To Be In Love". I was hoping to glean some information on who was responsible for what. Based on the interviews with Hammond and Bettis, I got the impression that Hammond was responsible for the song title and the intro (as fleshed-out on his guitar) and Bettis specifically brought up that he had written the Pockets full of good intentions... lyric. I would assume that Bettis probably wrote the main lyrics to the song. But there could have been a give-and-take between Hammond/Bettis.