"The Look Of Love" was one of those songs that it seems that everyone did at sometime or another. It was particularly prevalent among the A&M artists that we typically deal with here.
It all started with Burt Bacharach's soundtrack to CASINO ROYALE. "The Look Of Love" was its main "love theme" and was performed on the soundtrack by Dusty Springfield. Burt did his own version of the song as an instrumental on that soundtrack.
Later on, Burt re-did his instrumental version for A&M Records on his first LP for the label, REACH OUT. Meanwhile Sergio Mendes was burning up the charts with the hit Brasil '66 version.
Other artists grabbed onto the song too. Julius Wechter and the Baja Marimba Band got their turn on the FOWL PLAY album. Claudine Longet did the song and titled her second album THE LOOK OF LOVE.
Pete Jolly tackled the song live on his GIVE A DAMN album, and other live versions by Sergio Mendes and Burt Bacharach himself (on their respective IN CONCERT albums) appeared in the early '70s.
It took a few decades, but even Herb Alpert got into the act by doing a version of the song on his COLORS CD with an odd electronic sampling of Lani Hall's voice.
And Sergio Mendes revisited the song recently on his ENCANTO album with Fergie singing lead.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find lists of plenty of other artists who tackled the song added to the thread.
So, who nailed it?
Harry
It all started with Burt Bacharach's soundtrack to CASINO ROYALE. "The Look Of Love" was its main "love theme" and was performed on the soundtrack by Dusty Springfield. Burt did his own version of the song as an instrumental on that soundtrack.
Later on, Burt re-did his instrumental version for A&M Records on his first LP for the label, REACH OUT. Meanwhile Sergio Mendes was burning up the charts with the hit Brasil '66 version.
Other artists grabbed onto the song too. Julius Wechter and the Baja Marimba Band got their turn on the FOWL PLAY album. Claudine Longet did the song and titled her second album THE LOOK OF LOVE.
Pete Jolly tackled the song live on his GIVE A DAMN album, and other live versions by Sergio Mendes and Burt Bacharach himself (on their respective IN CONCERT albums) appeared in the early '70s.
It took a few decades, but even Herb Alpert got into the act by doing a version of the song on his COLORS CD with an odd electronic sampling of Lani Hall's voice.
And Sergio Mendes revisited the song recently on his ENCANTO album with Fergie singing lead.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find lists of plenty of other artists who tackled the song added to the thread.
So, who nailed it?
Harry