SUTC: Reminders.... ok, its Monday, and I thought Naked Eyes was the original at first....
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Thankfully Wikipedia has set me straight as to the provenance of this song I previously thought was originally done by Naked Eyes in the 80s. Check out Sandie Shaw doing the original Burt Bacharach/Hal David standard:
And then of course there is Naked Eye's synthpop version
But not to be confused with Luscious Jackson's Naked Eye:
According to the Thick Specs blog, Luscious Jackson drummer kate Schellenbach now works on the Ellen DeGeneres show.
Comments (10)
I remembered the original - well that the Naked Eyes version was a cover, though i couldn't actually call the origional to mind.
Now i remember why - it's totally forgettable.
But it's obviously a Bacharach/David song if you listen to it.
(And Ellen DeGeneres's brother played rhythm guitar in Cowboy Mouth for a while recently...)
Hmph. Always loved this song, and was a little unimpressed with the new-wavery of Naked Eyes' version. But I'm a longtime Bacharach-David fan, albeit one who likes his rock hard, his soul sweet, his pop fizzy - and all of it tuneful.
I'm with Michael here. I've always thought the Sandie Shaw version was superb - the arrangement is sterling and the singing, while not technically wonderful, is somehow just right for the song. (A side note here: Has anyone else ever noticed how a number of contemporary Japanese female singers have the same exaggerated vibrato as Sandie Shaw? Wouldn't surprise me to learn that she is considered iconic...)
Here Here for Sandie.
Love that vid!
Mike, excellent description of what I enjoy too!
Ivy, i am not familiar with too many contemporary Japanese singers... perhaps that is a forthcoming post?
It could well be, but far more than I Fisty is the man to do it...
and what is this Fisty of which you speak o wise one?
That is one of the many aliases of the walking, breathing musica reference volume known as Fistula Spume.
I remember hearing this version for the first time after hearing the remake by Naked Eyes. Fell in love with the song all over again
Wow! I never knew that Miles Standish was a girl singer!
Seriously. I never heard this version, considering Dionne Warwick's 1967 hit the original. This one is an interesting historical gem, though. I just read that a guy named Lou Johnson had a #49 Bilboard hit with this song before Sandie. And that Sandie re-recorded it for a 1985 movie "Letter To Brezhnev.
Naked Eyes? No doubt from their "Hooked On Pabulum" release.