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SPC Nancy Greene
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Beautiful Song Sgt (Join to see)! I remember it well!
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Excellent afternoon song share brother Sgt (Join to see)
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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you my friend Sgt (Join to see) for posting the music video of Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass performing Burt Bacharach and Hal David's song 'This Guy's In Love With You'

My mother loved to listen to Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass.

Song background:
"As documented in an A&E Biography episode featuring Bacharach, the recording originated when Alpert, while visiting at Bacharach's office, asked, "Say, Burt, do you happen to have any old compositions lying around that you and Hal never recorded; maybe one I might be able to use?" Alpert said he made it his practice to ask songwriters that particular question: often a "lost pearl" was revealed. As it happened, Bacharach recalled one, found the lyrics and score sheet in his office filing cabinet, and offered it to Alpert: "Here, Herb ... you might like this one."[citation needed]
Alpert saw the possibilities in the composition for recording it himself. The composition had a recognizable Bacharach-David feel, a spot for a signature horn solo in the bridge and in the fadeout, and it was an easy song to sing within Alpert's vocal range.
Alpert originally sang "This Guy's in Love with You" on a 1968 television special, The Beat of the Brass. In response to numerous viewer telephone calls to the network following the broadcast, Alpert decided that the song should be released as a single recording, and it reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in June of that year, remaining in the top position for four weeks. It was not only Alpert's first No. 1 single, but it was also the first No. 1 single for his A&M record label. The song also spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart. For the single's B-side, Alpert chose "A Quiet Tear" from his first album in 1962, The Lonely Bull."
Several female vocalists have rendered the song as "This Girl's in Love with You". Nancy Sinatra debuted this version live on the Ed Sullivan Show, May 26, 1968. Dionne Warwick was the first to record the song, which was released as a single in 1969, reaching No. 7 in the U.S. that same year. It also spent four weeks at No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart. It ranked as the 64th biggest US hit of 1969"

For comparison Dionne Warwick - This Girl's In Love With You (Scepter Records 1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbvoKQKkje0
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