The Look Of Love

The Look Of Love (Bacharach/David) - Gladys Knight and the Pips
c/w You're My Everything (Whitfield/Penzabene/Grant)

1968

You may have noticed I get quite excited about Bacharach and David tunes, and here's one of the best. Motown again with Gladys Knight and her 'Pips' singing this classic song from the film 'Casino Royale' (remember Herb Alpert from earlier?) their own way.

The 'Pips' were all relatives of Gladys' and named after cousin Scottie 'Pip' Pippin, but several personnel changes led to the eventual renaming Gladys Knight and the Pips. You see. it's not as bad as it seems, Gladys was a 'Pip' too, and Pip is a perfectly reasonable name for a group. . . .

Move Over Darling

Move Over Darling (Melcher, Kanter, Lubin) - Doris Day
c/w Twinkle Lullaby
1963
Music from the film of the same name, in itself a revision of 'Something's Got To Give' where tragically Marilyn Monroe died during filming ans a remake of the 1940 comedy 'My Favourite Wife'.

Rawhide

Rawhide (Washington, Tiomkin) - Frankie Laine with Jimmy Carroll and his orchestra
c/w Journey's End (Ballard Jr., Sherman)
1959


Used as the music for CBS' T.V. Show of the same name, reached No.6 in the UK.

Stranger On The Shore

Stranger On The Shore (Bilk) - Mr. Acker Bilk with the Leon Young String Chorale
c/w Take My Lips (Maravigliose Labbra)(Usuelli-Sabel)
1962

Clarinet led instrumental written by Bilk for is daughter Jenny, originally named after her, he changed it to Stranger On The Shore and it was used for a BBC TV series also called Stranger On The Shore.

Casino Royale

Casino Royale (Bacharach, David) - Herb Alpert
c/w The Wall Street Rag (Coleman) 1967

Title theme to the original James Bond film 'Casino Royale' starring David Niven and Peter Sellers (among many others) and another great tune from Bacharach and David peformed by Herbert Alpert and The Tijuana Brass.

Herb has had 5 No.1's, 28 albums in the Billboard charts, 15 gold albums, 14 platinum albums and 8 Grammy awards. He has sold in excess of 72 MILLION albums worldwide!

He was the 'A' in A&M Records and is now an abstract expressionist painter.





Listen to a sample of 'The Wall Street Rag' on Last FM