Vanessa Williams Alfie

Bacharach/David’s Alfie is performed by Vanessa Williams on the concert stage. The music video is accompanied with on-screen lyrics. Alfie was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David to promote the 1966 film Alfie. The song was a major hit for Cilla Black (UK) and Dionne Warwick (US). Wikipedia background: Although Bacharach has cited “Alfie“ as his personal favorite of his compositions, he and Hal David were not eager to write a song to promote the film Alfie (a release from Paramount Pictures, which owned Famous Music) when approached by Ed Wolpin of the Composers’ Guild. David thought the title character’s name pedestrian: “Writing a song about a man called ’Alfie’ didn’t seem too exciting at the time.“ The composers agreed to submit an “Alfie“ song if they could complete it within three weeks. Bacharach, in California, was inspired by a rough cut of the film about the Cockney womanizer played by Michael Caine. Bacharach felt that: “w