Make It Easy On Yourself Covered by ???

[tremelo]

Hi all!

In the "This is Now" documentary, there is an Indian woman singing Make it Easy on Yourself? Who is she? I liked that version with the sitar.

Cheers,

Ericha

[Guest]

i'm startled that there are others besides the big 3 versions i'm familiar with..
1.jerry butler
2.dionne warwick
3.burt bacharach(part voal by him and part instrumental w/fantastic orchestration

[Dennis Webb]

Don't forget the Walker Brothers' hit version, which made it to the top of the charts in Britain. Very soulful. I think the Righteous Brothers should have done a cover of this song as well. It would really have suited them.

[ron]

Add to that the 2003 cover by Ronald Isley on the "Isley Meets Bacharach" album.

[Don]

Here are a list of recordings in The Hitmaker Archive. Don't know if the version wanted is in the list though...

Ian and The Zodiacs Make It Easy On Yourself
Nigel Ogden Make It Easy On Yourself
Film Score Orchestra Make It Easy On Yourself
Carmen Villani Non Verra' Da Te La Felicita
Shirley and Johnny Make It Easy On Yourself
Jerry Butler (1962) Make It Easy On Yourself
Dionne Warwick (1962) Make It Easy On Yourself
Kenny Lynch (1964) Make It Easy On Yourself
Little Anthony and The Imperials (1964) Make It Easy On Yourself
Claude Francois (1965) Mais, n'essaie pas de me mentir
Walker Brothers (1965) Make It Easy On Yourself
Four Seasons (1965) Make It Easy On Yourself
Georges Jouvin (1965) Mais n'essaie pas de me mentir
Bern Elliot and The Fenmen (1965) Make It Easy On Yourself
Cilla Black (1966) Make It Easy On Yourself
Percy Faith (1966) Make It Easy On Yourself
Jordan Christopher (1966) Make It Easy On Yourself
Sarah Vaughan (1966) Make It Easy On Yourself
Jackie Trent (1967) Make It Easy On Yourself
Connie Francis (1968) Make It Easy On Yourself
Dionne Warwick with B.J. Thomas (1969) Make It Easy On Yourself
Burt Bacharach (1969) Make It Easy On Yourself
Dennis Brown (1970) Make It Easy On Yourself
Tony Bennett (1970) Make It Easy On Yourself
Strings For Pleasure (1971) Make It Easy On Yourself
Rita Reys (1971) Make It Easy On Yourself
Jerry Vale (1971) Make It Easy On Yourself
Al De Lory (1971) Make It Easy On Yourself
Terry Baxter (1971) Make It Easy On Yourself
Ed Ames (1971) Make It Easy On Yourself
Carpenters (1971) Bacharach and David Medley: Make It Easy On Yourself
Dionne Warwick (1971) Make It Easy On Yourself (live)
Jack Jones (1972) Make It Easy On Yourself
Steve Lawrence (1972) Make It Easy On Yourself
Johnny Mathis (1972) Make It Easy On Yourself
Arthur Fiedler and Boston Pops (1972) Make It Easy On Yourself
Vikki Carr (1973) Make It Easy On Yourself
Dakota Staton (1973) Make It Easy On Yourself
Jerry Butler (1976) Make It Easy On Yourself
Singers And Chorus Of Manhattan (1977) Make It Easy On Yourself
Michael Henderson (1981) Make It Easy On Yourself
Three Degrees (1989) Make It Easy On Yourself
Anita Meyer (1989) Make It Easy On Yourself
Carpenters (1991) Make It Easy On Yourself
Kyoto Jazz Massive (1994) Make It Easy On Yourself
Shoko Suzuki (1994) Make It Easy On Yourself
Starlight Orchestra (1995) Make It Easy On Yourself
RTE Concert Orch/Richard Hayman (1995) Make It Easy On Yourself
Gary Tesca (1995) Make It Easy On Yourself
Yasuko Agawa (1996) Make It Easy On Yourself
The Divine Comedy (1997) Make It Easy On Yourself
Weeping Willows (1997) Make It Easy On Yourself
Robbie Dupree (1997) Make It Easy On Yourself
Shauna Hicks (1998) A Bacharach Love Story Medley: Make It Easy On Yourself
Free'n' Easy (1998) Make It Easy On Yourself
Idle (1998) Make It Easy On Yourself
Blackeyed Susans (1998) Make It Easy On Yourself
Rita Reys (1999) Make It Easy On Yourself
The Jet Set (1999) Make It Easy On Yourself
Glen Campbell (1999) Make It Easy On Yourself
Edwin Starr (2000) Make It Easy On Yourself
Ash (2001) Candy (incl sample from Walker Brothers 'Make It Easy On Yourself'
Siobhan Pettit (2003) Make It Easy On Yourself
Ron Isley and Burt Bacharach (2003) Make It Easy On Yourself
Darius Danesh (2003)

[Guest]

lol now i know wher he gets his royalty money! forgot about the walker bros version...yeah it was definitely a righteous bros thing...

[Guest]

In Brazil, the most well-known version sems to be Oscar Toney Jr's. Not listed in the above post, incidentally.

[scotsgreg]

The Walker Brothers' version is how I first came to know the song. The arrangement is quite close to Bacharach's original for Jerry Butler's 1962 hit single but with a more brooding vocal and a bit more Spectorian Righteous Brothers-styled bombast. It was 1965, the year the Righteous Brothers broke, after all. I believe The Walker Brothers' version is actually the highest charted version of the song in the U.S., reaching #16 in November of that year. Butler's is the only other version to reach the top 20.

[PaulB]

Ericha, I'm clueless as to who does the cover in the documentary
(the fragment sounds very interesting).

"Make it Easy on Yourself" just happens to be my favorite
Bacharach composition.
I'm only familiar with the following (well-known) covers:
Burt, Jerry Butler, Dionne, Isley Brothers, Ron Isley w/BB,
Walker Brothers, Edwin Starr, Elvis Costello.

Anyone interested in making a collection of covers that we
could offer back to the group, please contact me. Thanks.

Paul