Saturday Sunshine – Burt Bacharach, Hal David [piano/vocal] скачать в хорошем качестве

Saturday Sunshine – Burt Bacharach, Hal David [piano/vocal]

Though Bacharach recorded this song in 1963 with a child singer taking the lead vocal (an arrangement that was supposed to land as uber-cute in the manner of Frank Sinatra's duet with child singer Eddie Hodges on the song "High Hopes"), and scraped his way into the very bottom of the Hot 100 for three weeks, a much more swingin' version was recorded by none other than helium-voiced Johnny Mathis for Mercury Records in 1966. The song is kind of like a revved-up "Magic Moments", and while it's a piece of fluff, it's quite catchy, as almost everything Bacharach wrote from 1962-1972 was. Bacharach recorded an alternate arrangement in 1963 that ditched the child singer and put the song up a key or two; this version (like the single version) has groovy tic-tac bass and nice low-key "spy guitar" accents, plus some cool muted trumpet that sounds like the kind of playing Sweets Edison used to do on Sinatra sessions. The alternate version was probably intended for another singer who either never laid down the main vocal or recorded something that just didn't work, but it works well as a semi-instrumental (the background chorus is still present and singing some of the lyrics). The alternate version was released on the 1997 boxed set "Something Big".