I first heard this song as part of collection of songs that my friend’s sister had recorded onto a tape and left in her car when she had sold it to him. Buying your first car is always an exciting thing and my pal Ed had recently bought a VW Beetle that belonged to his sister and had it repainted and done quite a bit of work on it. I remember working with him to change the break pads on the drive using a copy of the Haynes Manual, which was the first, last, and only time I ever got involved in mechanics! Whatever skills I have (and some may say that I have none) car mechanics is not amongst them!
Needless to say when the car was finished we used to drive around in it listening to music as we went on our merry way and in the machine was a tape that had this song on it!
Herb Alpert is much more famous for playing the trumpet and for being the boss of A&M records but his recording of this Burt Bacharah Song which he did for a TV special in 1968 is a rare example of him singing and I have always loved this song as so perfectly expresses that situation when you start to fall in love with someone who has been a friend for a while and they just don’t seem to notice which I suspect has happened to nearly all of us at one time or another….
Now listen to the song….
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