(in STEREO) Cilla Black cutting "Alfie" at Abbey Road, in 1965
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Uploaded by morpheusatloppers on Sep 14, 2009
This comes from a British documentary on Burt Bacharach - sadly now only existent on kinescope - and yours truly dubbed the ACTUAL record that was being made onto the soundtrack (sorry it's a bit scratchy at the start) giving us a unique look into an historic event.
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I don't care what anyone says about Cilla Black, she was amazing. Alfie is not an easy melody to sing and she did a world class job. I loved her voice, vibrato, phrasing and passion and she had hits with 3 of my favorite songs of all time, Alfie, Step inside love and Anyone who had a Heart. What a Gal.
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Fantastic piece of footage regardless of who one regards the definitive Alfie to belong to. For me it's Cilla - so much drama in those 2mins 40 secs!! The other versions are 'flat' in comparison - in terms of emotional highs and lows.
Cheers all...
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@sixstring58 Couldn't agree more. Cilla is fantastic, one of my favourite female singers, and this is probably her magnum opus.
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Cilla is magic.I could listen to her forever.
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cilla was burt bacharachs favourite singer of alfi
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This is beautiful. I am from the US and never heard this before. I am amazed in the emotion in her. I could see her singing this on Broadway or in London on stage and taking down the house. And the genius of Bacharach and David. Taking music to the world with multiple singers in each country. Look at what they did with Petula Clark in Anyone Who Had a Heart - 4 languages!
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Although I'm not really a Cilla fan, this is one of a trio of songs that for me will always be associated with her from that era, the others being Anyone who Had a Heart (another Bacarach/David song of course) and Step Inside Love (Paul McCartney) that she sang at the beginning and end of her TV show in the late 1960s (which I still remeber, even although I was about 10 at the time!). I love the first 2, but Alfie never fails to move me to tears. Simply beautiful, Thank you Cill, Burt & Hal
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If only she had cut a christmas album.
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omigod you are so right - when she breaks into those piercing high notes, it gives me chills!
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This should show youngsters. You sang the song live in front of a group/band/orchestra, it was recorded, a single was cut, and was released and we bought it in droves. No dubbing, no auto tune, no 4 track or 8 track. Just great music and songs by great composers and singers.
@HardWarUK AMEN!
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