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 -
Tony Selby the BBC television drama "Three Clear Sundays", directed by Ken Loach. He had one of his earliest film acting roles in The Early Bird (1965) "Alfie" (1966), starring Academy award-winner Michael Caine, and his other film appearances include "Press for Time" (1966), "Poor Cow" (1967), "Witchfinder General" (1968), "Before Winter Comes" (1969), "In Search of Gregory" (1969), "Villain" (1971), "Nobody Ordered Love" (1972), and "" (1973). In 1971-2 he played magician's assistant Sam Maxstead in children's supernatural TV series "Ace of Wands" and had a brief 1972 appearance as a jealous fiancé in "Public Eye". Other notable television appearances included