Something for the weekend. I Say a Little Prayer (1967) performed by Dionne Warwick, who is still going strong at age 85.
Bonus:
I Say a Little Prayer
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
She was the real deal. Great post, Donald.
I’ve read many singers say how difficult those Bacharach/David’s songs were to sing. They seem easy and straightforward, to get it right, that was hard, a lot of changes are happening in unusual positions in the music.
The Bacharach / David tunes were played so often when they were in their prime that it damaged the ability of the listener to appreciate them. We needed a few decades of not hearing them on the supermarket overhead to hear the beauty in them.
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(It says something about Robert Christgau – the soi-disant ‘dean of American rock critics’ – that he despises them).
The universities down South seemed to have the best singers and bands. Dione Warwick, The Supremes, The Temptations, Four Tops, Ike Turner and the Ikettes, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chicago, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Box Tops. Somewhere I have a box of tapes, but no machine to play them.