George Martin picked Alfie as his top 10 (but it's Cilla)

[hereiam]

George Martin (producer of The Beatles) Top 10 are:
Monday
Sun Arise ~ Rolf Harris
I Want To Hold Your Hand ~ The Beatles

Tuesday
You’re Driving Me Crazy ~ The Temperance Seven
Goodness Gracious Me ~ Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren

Wednesday
Alfie ~ Cilla Black
Icarus ~ Paul Winter

Thursday
Diamond Dust ~ Jeff Beck
Medeira M’Dear ~ Flanders & Swann

Friday
Live & Let Die ~ Paul McCartney & Wings
Take A Pew ~ Alan Bennett

You could hear them all this week in Ken Bruce's show on BBC radio2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/bruce ... l?thisweek

George is free to be bias for not choosing Dionne's version
as he produced Cilla's records
But i really think her version is far inferior to Warwick's

[Suzklau]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions I guess, but as an English person I grew up hearing Cilla singing Alfie and it is my preferred version.

[Hal2]

Having grown up on the continent I much prefer Mireille Mathieu's version that was used on most European prints of the original film, to Ms. Black's local UK version. Mathieu is a far superior singer.

[Suzklau]

Actually Cilla's version wasn't local as I grew up in Australia. I have only heard hers an Dionne's version.