Cilla Black - Alfie (Live)
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2017
- Cilla Black - Alfie (Official Video)
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Lyrics:
What's it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we meant to take more than we give
Or are we meant to be kind?
And if only fools are kind, Alfie,
Then I guess it's wise to be cruel.
And if life belongs only to the strong, Alfie,
What will you lend on an old golden rule?
As sure as I believe there's a heaven above, Alfie,
I know there's something much more,
Something even non-believers can believe in.
I believe in love, Alfie.
Without true love we just exist, Alfie.
Until you find the love you've missed you're nothing, Alfie.
When you walk let your heart lead the way
And you'll find love any day, Alfie, Alfie. 
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No headphones. No monitors. Sang live, with a group of session men, cameras and piano accompaniment/conducting by the song writer! No pressure Cilla Chuck!
Watch Dionne Warwick sing this with an open mind.. just because she is British doesn’t make it good.
@@vettefool I like all versions but a lot of people prefer Cilla's version, brits will relate to this more.
@@vettefoolwhat kind of racial shit is this? DW is loved in Britain. Now go back under the stone you crawled out of.
And George Martin producing
@@vettefool I'm curious, did you take classes to become such an antagonistic smear, or is it innate?
A different era, glad I was part of it, grateful..
Cilla makes your heart just melt, RIP Burt and Cilla Black, both legends.
Along w/her producer George Martin shown here in the session. RIP
How true...how true, and if you haven't watched the whole story of this recording coming together...you must!
Beautiful
@@revrotunda3206 I thought the shot of George giving the performance his deepest attention was amazing.What a performance.In another youtube clip Cilla explains Burt made her do 28 takes and how much energy each take took.
Agreed. 100 per cent.
I am 65 and I am in tears. My Mom would sing this song I can remember my Mom si ging her heart out in the living room.
God bless her memory❤
My mother used to play this song on her piano and sing it too. I was just sharing it with my youngest sister who was not born during those times. RIP Mama we love & miss you ❤
Absolutely beautiful, my favorite song.
Her version is the best vocal performance ever. When a singer brings you to tears... I'm 64 & only remembered Dionne Warwick then this just blew me away. I remember Lulu but Cilla Black man where was she lol
R.I.P. Mom...😢
RIP Cilla Black & Burt Bacharach. Thanks for the beautiful music.
She dared to Bare her Soul when she sang . . . and it was BEAUTIFUL ‼️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Indeed. Indeed.
@@gstevens6948
🥰👍🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️
"Without true love we just exist"
"Without true love ,we just exist".
Poignant, eloquent, beautiful.
"I found a thrill , to press my cheek too" . At Last by Etta James.
Another favourite .
Grant
This was Cilla's tour de force. Anyone Who Had A Heart and You're My World were great. This song, and this performance of it, are world-class perfection.
She is joined by her pianist now, they'd be singing songs of angels. RIP Burt Bacharach.
Exquisite. They don’t make music like this anymore. RIP Cilla, Burt 💚
I could be wrong, but when National treasure became a phrase, I think Cilla was the first to achieve that accolade.
With Sir George Martin in the control room recording this wonderful track. What a time to be alive!!
What an expressive and fantastic vocal performance by Cilla Black. "Alfie" has one of the most difficult to sing pop melodies ever written and beautifully performed here.
She herself said Burt demanded so many takes of this difficult song, she was literally in pain from all the effort she gave it!
I've played it as a Flugel solo and YES it isn't the easiest to get right but when you do it has a beautiful melody .
Matter of preference....I think Warwick did a great job also.... But I get your point....I have heard many versions of "That's All" the only version that resonates with me Edie Adams sung on the Luci-Desi CH....Along with Phyllis Human, u know how to love me...
Agree. I try but get choked up. I do Lulu To Sir With Love in karoake. Lol
Can't stop playing it and it makes me cry as it's such a beautiful song and so perfectly performed. As a teenager in the sixties in Merseyside I didn't appreciate the real quality there. Now I do!
I understand
I understand too. Listening to this on a rainy Philadelphia night 😢
Thinking about the Alfie I know 😢
It makes me cry too. What's it all about??? Peace and love. xx
Gets me everytime much like Lulu with To Sir, With Love and Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger. Passionate.
Someone once said ;
"Youth is waisted on the young"....
But then we grow older and wiser.
I didn't like ABBA as a teen.
Now at 61 I've learned to enjoy their music very much.
Love from Norway 😘🇧🇻
I'm 70 and it makes me cry...still.
John Valandingham I’m 63 my late hubby would’ve been 66 this year...we both thought we were so fortunate to have experienced the 60s...there was a newness and sense of excitement especially in music like this that lasted into the 70s but is now long gone. We lived through the best.
Me too, doesn't Cilla sound and like fantastic.
Me too!
I believe in love.
god bless
Cilla Black was such a great talent that the legendary Brian Epstein himself managed Cilla Black's career while also managing The Beatles. The Beatles actually treated Cilla like their own sister and were close friends with her all throughout their careers.
Somehow Cilla managed to make a gorgeous Wall of Sound practically single-handedly! Such a natural talent...
She really could sing! By far, the best - and right - version of this song.
This is great but I grew up with the Dionne Warwick version of the song and they are both magnificent in their own way.
One of Burt's greatest compositions. This version with Cilla Black is historic and truly amazing. R.I. P. Burt Bacharach, among the greatest composers of the second half of the 20th century.
Please don't forget that the lyrics to the song ALFIE was written by HAL DAVID. Bacharach was not the only one who wrote the songs that Dionne Warwick and many other artists recorded. Hal David was the other half of this successful writing partnership. Sadly Hal David died much earlier than Burt.
@@ivebeenaround58 Great comment. Yes, I should have mentioned Hal David, but with Burt's passing, he was on my mind . In fact, Burt said that Hal's lyrics for "Alfie," "were just about the greatest lyrics ever written."
Bacharach is arguably THE most underrated composer
@@tomhyland4077According to Wikipedia, "Bacharach has cited "Alfie" as his personal favorite of his compositions".This adds another layer to your comment that he considered the words "just about the greatest lyrics ever written"
Thank you! @@lewisgoudy863
Thank you Cilla Black for this definitive version of one of Burt Bacharach's greatest songs -- a song that nonbelievers certainly believed in! Rest in peace, Burt Bacharach, Cilla
Please don't forget that the lines you quoted from the song were written by Hal David. Burt wrote the music, Hal wrote the lyrics.
Oh wow, YES!!!!! so true....love your comment!!!!
No one sings my songs like Dionne. - Burt Bacharach.
Rest in peace also, Hal David @@ivebeenaround58
Such a voice. We are watching somebody in the process of inventing contemporary singing. That is a vocal lesson.
One of the most iconic recording performances of all time.
Yes!! and no voice enhancement trickery, just 100% Talent.
I think dionne waricks 1973live version is better and more truthfully emotional
@@markpeter4304 I think you're right, and you're wrong at the same time. Warwick's verson isn't better nor worse. It's just another, than Black's. I can say, Warwick's version is for listening and Black's obviously for looking. )
Both versions are fantastic. I like this one because you get the full musical experience being live in the studio with the backup singers and Burt conducting and playing piano.
I also love the original version of Dionne Warwick.
She doesn't just sing this. She is really speaking to Alfie. So much sadness, pleading and love. No one has done a better version.
Agree with you 100%, she owned this song, she sang the best version of "Alfie".
i'm in tears...
Andre Yaniw It’s very wonderful. In the States; Burt had Dione Warwick, sing it. Her version, is also top notch. It’s probably here, on utube.
She has a beautiful voice and did a good job on this song but she doesn't tell a story like Dionne's version. Dionne has more passion in her interpretation.
Sorry don't agree. Cilla owns this song.
Aside from the obvious beauty of this song I find the emotional commitment of the performers very moving. There are so many aspiring young musicians these days. When you look at the level of this entirely live performance, no enhancements, no computers, no overdubbing, it's really humbling.
Correct, Cilla was a rare jewel, raw talent and we all loved her natural beauty.
Exactly. Her rendition of ‘Alfie’ is heartfelt and her performance immaculately exquisite and unique; unmatchable!
I'll never get over the "what's it all about Alfie?" beginning. The singer, arrangement etc. I expect to be great. It's Cilia Black. Lulu, Cilia, and Petula Clark. Need I say more.? But the song, the words. What is it about a three minute pop tune that can encapsulate heavy profound thoughts and seasonings so easily, so effortlessly?
Clearly the best version of Burt Bacharach s favourite song
Yesterday I stumbled into a nostalgic mood, in doing so I rediscovered this recording. Now 66 as an instrumental musician from the age of 8. As a child everything was “live”, TV had live orchestras. As a young musician in Las Vegas 1975-1992 the era of house orchestras was waining with death soon to follow. The acts founded in vaudeville, the jazz age, the big band era were disappearing. It was a privilege to have been a part of many, many, many thousands of Live performances where that moment went out into the ether never to be witnessed again. This is a pure example of that era captured for as long as there are devices to save it and replay, this is the purest of musical examples of what musicians did day in and day out. This was the 28th or 29th take according to Mr. Bacharach, the studio orchestra performed this piece flawlessly for hours, patiently, quietly, perfect, never knowing when the real, the final take would happen, what chops, what time, intonation, what professionalism. Thank you for sharing this.
"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air, you can never capture it again." -Eric Dolphy
28th or 29th take? Gruelling. But what a payoff!
@@nancygowster but it was the 3rd or 4th take they used after George Martin said it was either of them that was the best take 😂
What a rendition, no one can emulate this rendition ever. Miss you cilla.
Dionne Warwick does a much better job. Cilla gets shrill as her volume goes up.
@@rr7fireflyFor me Whitney Houston top both. 😎😎
Cilla could express the full range of light and shade that this song demands. To me a perfect blend of singer and song
Beautiful song recorded at Abbey Road. Cilla at her best. Whenever I hear this it takes me back to the magical days of the sixties.
totally MAGIC! I was born in Jersey City ,N.J. but I have been a Anglophile always.
Always the greatest time for very talented people and our ❤
A little history about this amazing song: When approached by Paramount studios to write a song to accompany the movie Alfie, neither Burt Bacharach nor Hal David were enthusiastic. Their first reaction was, how do you write a good song about a guy named “Alfie?” They grudgingly agreed to try, and departed from their usual process by having Hal David write the lyrics first. Once the song was completed, they asked British singer Sandie Shaw to sing it. She declined. They then sent a demo to Cilla Black. She didn’t want to record it either, telling her manager, “I can’t do this. For a start, Alfie?? You call your dog Alfie.” Rather than simply say no, she kept upping the ante, telling Bacharach, he’d have to be the arranger, come to Britain and conduct the orchestra, and also agree to play the piano in the orchestra. To her surprise, he said yes to all her conditions. It is said that taskmaster Bacharach demanded over 20 grueling takes before being satisfied with a version. It’s also amazing that someone was filming the recording session, and caught this footage. At last count, this song, that no one wanted to write or perform, has been covered by over 400 artists. Bacharach said it was his favorite of all his compositions. Lines from the song are inscribed on Cilla Black’s gravestone.
I was so little but sumthg in this song just hit my soul , Amazing! 😪
Thank you for sharing that remarkable story.
Sweet of you to share. I am staying for a month in a beautiful home in Ojai with a long haired Corgi named Alfie that has taken a shine to me. He is so sweet. I love this song and will be sure to play it for Alfie when he comes to visit.
It was Brian Epstein who arranged the filming apparently. He was Cilla's manager.
Burt insisted that Hal David do the lyrics first. Hal looked for a line in the script. He found it: What's it all about Alfie ?
The structure of the melody which was then composed by Bacharach was dictated by Hal's lyrics. Thus Burt wrote ten bar verses... Very unusual for a pop song.
Incrível o que contou. Fico surpreso com a falta de sensibilidade daqueles que ouviram essa obra prima e nem perceberam a sua grandeza, coisa que percebi em 3 notas iniciais. Mesmo numa época de ouro, existiam os surdos e sem talentos. Impressionante.
I never imagined that I would hear a version of that song which could rival Dionne. I just did. Wow. Incredible.
Best damn version ..ever !
Go and check out dionne warick live 1973 of alfie...
Cilla at her very best and in my opinion the best version ever ❤
I watched a documentary about Cilla years ago where George Martin recalled Burt Bacharach made her sing it over and over about twenty times and she didn't complain once. When he asked Burt about it he said he was looking for "something special" to which George replied something like "we've just heard it twenty times!!" Priceless.
In an interview with Mitch Albom (also on RUclips) Burt admitted that he'd taken her through, he thought, 28 takes and that by that point Cilla was ready to kill him. He recalled Sir George leaned over to Burt and said softly "I think you had it on take 4."
No the fourth version was mentioned and settled on it
People forget what a truly magnificent singer she was.
RIP Cilla and Bobby
Helen Mclean Hi Helen, yes she was a great singer. Always find it sad listening to this song. Still find it emotional after all these years. Also like Step Inside Love, but she has a fabulous catalogue.
What a beautiful love story, Cilla and Bobby.
She had soul!!
Some people never knew, actually I'm one. She was splendid!!! Weird cause I thought I'd run across her at some point searching for info on the Beatles. But here I am, in 2020, just coming to knowledge of this beautiful talented lady who has unfortunately passed away.
@@mikerivers9634 and to think she didnt want to sing Alfie at first...Black reacted negatively on hearing the demo "of some fella singing 'Alfie' ... I actually said to Brian 'I can't do this.' For a start - Alfie?? You call your dog Alfie!
Bert demanded perfection and Cilla delivered it!
Hats off to anyone who would even attempt to sing this song. The range is out of this world.
you should listen to the glee version, it’s amazing. by naya rivera. highly recommend
the word attempt is being very very generous, it is more provide vocals and emotion from another town than even get close.
Dionne Warwick did Alfie version.
You can do it an octave down as a tenor
I am madly in love with this song, with Cilla, with Burt Bacharach. I love watching this video because the two of them are so expressive. And Bacharach is a genius.
Please don't forget Hal David was also a genius with the lyrics that he wrote for Burt's music.
@@ivebeenaround58 Actually the lyrics came first, but I'll bet Bacharach made many adjustments here and there to fit musical ideas he came up with.
this is THE ORIGINAL recording of this song!!
How Burt Bacharach brought out the very best in Cilla Black.
Just sublime, really hits you in the feels. Bacharach was some sort of genius, and Cilia's voice is just incredible.
It's quite beautiful.
@@colinjennings3661 apprently cilla had to sing alfie a few time before burt Bacharach was happy with the recording
About a million times I bet
@@jackiebrankley8332 and it was GeorgeMartin who said I think Cilla did the perfect take on 3rd or 4th attempt!
Burt Bacharach passed today 😭🙏❤️ Genius LEGEND RIP 1928-2023
Thank you for your music 🎶 Burt YOU will be missed 🎉
She is an Angel 👼 singing now in heaven. Always loved her beautiful voice ❤😢
And she created what we used almost daily "what's it all about Alfie?" Still used today.
Fabulous song by Bacharach beautifully sung by Cilla in her prime. Undeniably 60’s and the epitome of why it was such a great era for melody. Burt must have been so impressed with her delivery. She could sing delicately one second and turn up the gas a split second later in a way other singers would struggle to achieve. No wonder Agnetha Fältskog cited her as a big influence and there’s a lady who can speak with authority on the matter.
Thanks I didn't know that
And, ironically, both sang If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind.
Please don't forget that Bacharach wrote the music and Hal David wrote the lyrics to all their greatest hits with Dionne Warwick and many other artists as well.
Clearly the best version of this song.....she is so connected
When you consider how much Dionne Warwick was BORN TO SING Burt's (and Hal's) compositions, I have to agree that Cilla's version is untouchable. So much vulnerability and passion.
Had to take a listen...not a fan.
What an amazing dynamic and emotional range she had. Thanks for posting this.
Far and away the best thing Cilla ever sung, and it was famously an extremely stressful recording session.
A great song, but her best song and performance was most definitely Anyone Who Had a Heart, check out her 1964 live performance of this song, just perfection
I strongly disagree with "Far and away..."
I'd likely have loved Black's Alfie, but it sure helped that I already adored her 'Your my world' and 'Anyone who had a heart.
Those three songs, highlight, without mentioning another, what made Cilla Black stand out.
Burt was a perfectionist to the point of obsession - as, indeed, was Dusty.
I loved the version By Dionne Warwick, but this version by Cilla Black has firmly captivated me. Her voice was both powerful and tender. No ordinary singer. Sorry she is gone.
Fantastic interpretation gets me every time. Cilla knows how to put emotion into a song it's quite captivating, unless many singers today. Mind it's one hell of a track!
.....the original singer of ALFIE. Cilla owns this classic.❤
@@ferdinandvasquez2160 yes she does
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To me remembering the 60's so well. Cilla Black has this song. Her version is so much better than any other version.
In my opinion, the best version. She sang with such feelings.
She initially didn't want to record the song and established several conditions, including Burt travel to England to play himself the piano and compose the orchestra arrangement. She told this in the hope that he would say 'no' and she could use it as a excuse to not record the song, but when Bacharach agreed with the terms she had no option unless to record it. One of the things she said when she first read the lyrics and heard the demo that has been sent to her from USA was: "Alfie? This is the kind of name we give to a dog!". Other funny fact about this is that Bacharach and Hal David themselves didn't want to compose the song for the film. Who could imagine that it would turn out on one of more beautiful songs of all times and the great hit it became!
Burt Bacharach and Hal david felt fine to compose a song for the film, what they didn't like is that dionne wouldn't be the one to sing their song.
Burt felt he had a problem as a pianist maintaining the time signature, so he wouldn't play on his recordings.
@Cray Fishe You missed out Catholics.
Wow love the back story! Thank you.
@@bjornironside261 Cilla's rendition is more in keeping the character of one of Alfie's 'birds'
Que video lindo de uma época de ouro da musica. Cilla Black a beleza de sua voz e interpretação emocionam
She was a wonderful singer. We can only miss her. R.I.P.
She was a wonderful singer and a beautiful person
there will never be another Cilla
sandra king Lets hope that's true.
She’s dead?
yes a few years ago.
She was a beautiful PERSON
She was a British National Treasure.
Such power, control, range and emotion. What makes her even more interesting is that she came up with the Beatles and was from Liverpool as well. Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles, was also her manager and it seems that he put his heart and soulful into her career as he did the Beatles.
As a matter of fact, the producer here was George Martin, the Beatles producer, and the studio we see here is where the Beatles recorded all but one of their albums.
When in the video I saw George Martin it all fell into place. So thank you for tweaking my memory. How lucky am I to have lived and had the music experience of the 60s...all of it.
But that's Burt Bacharach at the piano and conducting the orchestra .. and Cilla . He was the song writer , and I think you'll find the producer.
@@michaelandrew4488
It was already said that Cilla Black’s producer of this song was George Martin-the guy they showed here in the wings smoking a cigarette which was why he was there to oversee.
@Michael Andrew that just doesn't look like Burt...so young.
Just superb the best version of this song by the wonderful Cilla Black. I miss her.
I thought I would stop by remembering Burt Bacharach. He wrote a lot of good melodies, but this one is my favorite. Cilla's performance is wonderful and she pulls the whole story out of those lyrics.
It was his favorite, too.
This video shows up in my FB feed at least once a week, and I never tire of it.
‘Something even non believers can believe in’ wow! These lyrics are a million miles from any other songwriter! Spiritual yet powerful- when she goes into the masterful bridge - George Martin simple stops cold to witness true genius..
*nonbelievers *simply
The other half of the Bacharach song writing team, the late great Hal David, wrote the words.
Right song, composer, singer, studio, producer...and the cameras were there for all to see. Amazing ❤
A Sad Day For Music.
R.I.P. Burt Bacharach 😥
I'm Born Alfie this is the best version hands down. My mom would play both I would always play this version only. Love D.W. but this is Heaven on Earth. Chills.
Such a big voice from such a little woman
Little woman, not very tall, but powerful voice 😀
really live, the real thing. no lip synching, no auto tune. authentic. you may prefer one version or another, no matter. but we are hearing the song, the voice the orchestral arrangement in real time.
A lusciously balletic production from BB & Cilla is her usual stunning self... I wanted to be Cilla!
Burt Bacharach is on record saying that Allie was his best composition!
There’s so much beauty in songs , rather than life , that’s why I try and live my life in songs and forget what life throws at me 😊
this version should've been played in the 2004 alfie 💘
Burt's favourite song he says. The pressure in the room with such a technically difficult song and a perfectionist composer must have been mind bending.
But, our Cilla pulled it off, God bless her.
You comment is interesting. Do you mean that it is difficult to kind of talk-sing like she does in one part then seamlessly go back into the melody? I've listened to this song many times and was great to learn more about it, and see Cilla's interviews. I like too the video where she talks to Burt and sings while sharing the piano bench with him. Both amazing talents and recall they did many takes on this before Burt approved, and that he flew in from the US to England especially to work on this song with Cilla. I fell in love with this song immediately back in the day when I'd hear it on the radio as many songs Burt wrote, yet never knew who the singer was until recently.
@@mwj5368 The video of Bacharach practically berating Black over her inability to get the phrasing right is on youtube. She sings it, Warwick simply floated over it.
@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Hi Ken! Thanks for taking the time to reply! I find the recording of "Cilla Black Dionne Warwick Alfie" but I can't find the one where they are in studio with Burt and Burt gets impatient with Cilla. With the recording I just listened to, with my amateur ear it seems Dionne is more supporting Cilla's lead and joins in halfway into the song so it's hard for me to compare how each artist approaches it. I realize now after Cilla's comments how difficult that song is as to me there are difficult stark changes in (my amateur terminology) intonation and volume like the words (I can't quite make out right) just before she does a kind of "reply" and tones down and sings, "I believe in love, Alfie" and also again when she dramatically tones down to, “When you love let your heart lead the way...” I am amazed though how vocalists, musicians... can exhibit such self-control when under such pressure with studio time and for her with Burt flying all the way from the US to direct etc. I want to find Dionne's version, which I love too, and listen more carefully, and thanks to your comments as you open a door on really looking into what happens with how the miracle of music comes together to form a “masterpiece”, a real wonder.
@@mwj5368 You have to wait through a full minute of inane ads, but this clip shows interviews with Cilla, Bachrach and George Martin. Basically, Burt made her work hard. A great clip! And she's great in a different way. I love British music from this period. www.express.co.uk/videos/4400438235001/Cilla-Black-Burt-Bacharach-Recording-Alfie-in-Abbey-Road-Studios
Simply stunning. RIP Cilla.
We all have a golden moment in life I think was hers
1966!!!! The music was stupendous. Born Free, Georgy Girl, and Alfie are three timeless classics. 1966/67 represented the period of a cultural crescendo in art and music that was negated by the sour experience of Vietnam.
Cecil Treadwell Nice one Cecil - and what about Lulu's 'To Sir With Love' 1967? Beautiful sounds that certainly depict that era, against the backdrop of what you say there - wonder how today's nonsense will be reflected?
Cecil Treadwell AN AMAZING TIME TO BE YOUNG AND ALIVE.
Cecil Treadwell - The war was one thing. Then it was Nixon. Then it was the civil 'rights'
movement. Then it was the Fair Housing Act - which was not Fair, because it was invoked only when
a non-white wanted to move into a white neigh (because the opposite almost never happened) (destroyed many nice neighborhoods)., Then it was the riots of 1967 and the aftereffects, then it was waves of drugs, pimps, etc...
But back before all this happened, it was a time of innocence. Raindrops fall on my head / Alfie /
Do you know the way to San Jose? / classics from a short, distant era.
yep I agree with my goosebumps just thinking about those WONDER years.
Iarciabella - Thank You.
Rip beautiful lady you were simply the best ❤🌷
That last few bars when it changes at the end always breaks my heart.... :(
I feel like such a fool. I don't know how many times I've watched this, and focusing so much on Cilla, I just now realized, that's Bacharach on the piano. And he is absolutely amazing. Such a wonderful piece of history this video is!
HOW ON GOD's EARTH! CAN ANONE SAY THIS GIRL CAN"T SING? what is the matter with people? just listen to the skill in her voice....
RIP Burt Bacharach. Thanks for the fantastic music throughout the years.❤️✝️
Just brilliant. Nothing else.
A very underrated interpretation of this majestic song. 👍🏾
This song is like a magnet for me. I could listen to it endlessly. So powerful when you believe in love in spite of everything.
I feel the same way about this song as you do. I could listen to this song all day, all week, all month. It is a beautiful and powerful song. It puts a lump in my throat everytime I listen to Cilla Black sing it.
I'm afraid of it- "Alfie." The song and the movie- but especially the song. It's too much, it hits too hard. The question( s) that Hal David asks are not meant for answers, those are the worst kind. "And is life only meant for the strong Alfie?" Please stop, I can't take it. It hurts too much. And besides, what's love got to do with sex? I'm asking you Alfie.
@@brianmallen8887 I guess that's why I love it so much. Those words.
@@fireflyqueen6 and check out Burt Bacherate doing his "Squidward" interpretive dance from the piano. And Cilia Black. Good-great-greatest? To do this song justice, the singer isn't just a one in a billion talent. That's a given. The voice has to be so special, so distinct to defy description. Cilia knew what was expected of her and what was at stake, God bless her. This was musical Audie Murphys going into battle. Burt, Hal and Cilia. All three had to be genius to make it work. To make "Alfie" seem more ....sympathetic. ..You know, like "Moon River" does for "Breakfast at Tiffaney's,"
This was Burt Bacharach's favourite song. And boy did Cilla Black belt it!
Fabulous voice. I loved her and all her songs! May this great lady rest in peace.🙏🙏🌹🌹
Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up ...,.awesome singer and song
Gary Thomson me too
This footage is from the actual take, obviously. Goosebumps. There's a documentary out there on the making of this record.
@@mattb4794
Indeed! Although this song was also done by Dionne Warwick & done rather well, Cilla Black owns this song.
Cilla has a beautiful voice , this is the 60s i love .
Alfie was my nickname as a child. I abandoned it in high school. While doing a musical tribute to my deceased wife I used it as part of the theme, and re-adopted the name Alfie on my 80th birthday. Cilla sings the song straight from the her heart, directly into mine. Words can't describe the feeling.
My son goes by the name is Alfie… But his first name is actually Alpheus. We love the name Alfie, but Alpheus is my grandfather’s name.
@@SeaTeaSnow Some guy called me Alfie once, but just once.
Lovely Alfie. What a thing, huh?
my first dog called alfie when i was 1 year old
Burt Bacharach and Cilla just banging out more great music. KLB 007 2023
❤❤❤Cilla❤❤❤
This video is a treasure................
Beautiful song, beautifully sung.
I turned 7 in December, 1965, and I can remember Cilla Black's version of "Alfie" getting airplay and doing the rounds in 1966 like it was yesterday.
Funny how some childhood memories stick in the mind and continue to remain vivid after many decades.
Bacharach is a GOAT composer but Cilla really sells that song! ❤
Lovely job! Not an easy song to sing!
She was just perfect for this song, just beautifully sung soft & powerful with passion. Underrated singer .
Cilla had an awesome talent, recognised by Lennon, hence brilliance, long live their legacies, they live on.
ALWAYS
I came after watching Emily in Paris!! What a lovely song
So tender, so sensitive, so beautiful......so true. Just like love itself....smiles and tears.
just thee most beautiful song ...ever!!!! and belongs to Miss White, forever
Hello Lynn, How are you doing?
Dione Warwick’s version is sultry, stunning; and is the lasting enduring version. They both did this song justice.
This is maybe the best song ever written
RIP to the king of songwriters.
The very best version of Alfie....
No way
My favorite version of this song. Something very unique about how she sings it.
Not even an Oscar nomination!
My favourite song of Cilla's
Love Cilla’s version of this - such a magnificent voice & Burt’s arrangement is superb. ❤
Me too. Love Dionne but she doesn't come close to Cilla on this song for me.