LOOK OF LOVE, THE

Created on 06/11/2001
Latest update on 25/05/2023

Artist: Burt Bacharach
Author: Burt Bacharach/Hal David
Label: Colgems
Year: 1967

In James Bond film parody (with Peter Sellers) Casino Royale.

Covers:

1967:

Dusty Springfield [top 30 US and part of Casino Royale's OST]

1967:

Claudine Longet

1967:

Nina Simone

1967:

Andy Williams

1967:

Ramsey Lewis

1968:

Stan Getz [the first to record it (December '66)]

1968:

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 [top 5 US; vocal: Janis Hansen]

1968:

Tony Joe White

1968:

King Curtis

1969:

Dionne Warwick

1969:

Scott Walker

1969:

Tony Bennett

1969:

Willie Bobo

1970:

Isaac Hayes [sampled afterwards numerously]

1973:

Bobby Womack

1986:

Wild Bunch [pre Massive Attack]

1990:

Deacon Blue

1993:

X-Legged Sally

1994:

Anita Baker

1996:

T-Empo

1997:

Susanna Hoffs [in film Austin Powers; this song inspired part of the plot]

2001:

Diana Krall

2003:

Junior Jazz

2003:

Neil Diamond

2006:

Diana Ross

2006:

Trijntje Oosterhuis

2008:

Shelby Lynne [on her Dusty tribute]

2012:

Glenn Frey

2016:

Rumer

Not to be confused with Leslie Gore's ('64), ABC's ('82) or Madonna's ('87).

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