Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) in release in the US: besides the Cher version from the film and the Cilla Black original which had been issued in the US that July to peak at No.95 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, "Alfie" had been recorded by Vikki Carr, Jack Jones, Tony Martin, Carmen McRae, Joanie Sommers and Billy Vaughn. The five last-named singers had recorded "Alfie" in hopes of taking the song into the "Billboard" Easy Listening chart rather than scoring a mainstream Pop hit and both Joanie Sommers and Carmen McRae did score an Easy Listening hit with their respective versions of "Alfie" (Sommers -
Jonathan Caine, Baron Caine Jonathan Caine, Baron Caine Jonathan Michael Caine, Baron Caine (born 1966, Leeds) is a British political aide (or "SPAD") who has served five Secretaries of State. Caine grew up in working-class Leeds in the 1970s, and was educated at Halton Primary and Middle School, then Temple Moor High School. He became the first member of his family to attend university, studying history at the University of Leicester, where his specialism was the Home Rule Crisis and the Anglo-Irish Treaty. He joined the Conservative Research Department in 1987, working in the office next to David Cameron's. He joined the party's Northern