Dusty Springfield "The Look Of Love" (1967)

Dusty Springfield "The Look Of Love" (1967) Music written by Burt Bacharach & lyrics written by Hal David and performed by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

"The Look of Love" is a popular song. Since its first appearance in the 1967 James Bond film Casino Royale, it has become synonymous with lounge and easy listening music.

The song was sung by Dusty Springfield for the Casino Royale soundtrack, and was nominated for an Oscar. Springfield re-recorded the song the same year in London and released the song as the B-side of "Give Me Time". Claudine Longet recorded the song on her 1967 album of the same title. Lainie Kazan also recorded "The Look of Love" (arranged by Pat Williams) on her 1967 album Love is Lainie. Sergio Mendes' hit rendition on the Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 album Look Around, reached #4 on the pop charts after their performance in the Academy Awards telecast in March 1968. The lead vocal on this single was handled by Janis Hansen, not Lani Hall, a rarity in the early Brasil '66 canon. In 1969, soul group The Delfonics also covered the song on their album La La Means I Love You. During 1970, Isaac Hayes covered the song for his 1970 album ...To Be Continued. While Hayes used the same lyrics, his cover includes a unique instrumental which has been heavily sampled on R&B and hip-hop records.

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Music

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• Dusty
• Springfield
• The Look Of Love
• Easy
• Listening
• Burt
• Bacharach
• Hal
• David
• Herb
• Alpert
• Tijuana
• Brass
• Cats

[amborsiabt]

Wow! no cuss words! no cash money; no pimp and hoez; no cutting this person and that!! Pure music!!!

[railbuggy]

I didn't care for this song when I was a kid during the 60s but it's amazing how maturity changes your taste in music. Now I wish more music was as classy as this one.

[alocohc]

oh god come back to us.

[skyiscrying53]

@amborsiabt your right but if you listen to contry, rock and blues..that was all in there too..rap music did not invent non of those themes....

[wheresmyoldaccount]

@wheresmyoldaccount definitive - lol

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

The first song I learned on my tenor sax.

[hedhurtzbrainsobig]

@MrDavearama Well said...absolutely agree.

[hedhurtzbrainsobig]

Half asleep last night at 2am...Casino Royal, the 1967 Peter Sellers version, was on the box and it was like a dream...Ursala Andress, HOTTEST STAR EVER, looking beautiful and this song playing...her voice was hypnotic and soooo damn sexy...really miss this music...so much class and style...nothing compares to this today...so many childhood memories and feelings associated with that jazzy, loungy music...it felt like it was everywhere, like a sound track for those early years.

[wheresmyoldaccount]

This is the difinitive version that will never be surpassed. Perfection.

[Nymphette213]

Thumbs up! If this song keeps freezing at 0:08.

[fluxstringer]

Sounds like Paul Desmond on Sax. or at least his style.

Dsuty at her best.

[unclealand]

@jtrimmel Way WAYYYYYYY over.