Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) featured on the October 1966 album release entitled "Chér". Despite the relative failure of the version of "Alfie" cut for the US film release, Cilla Black's UK success with the song had attracted sufficient attention in the US for several American singers besides Cher to cover the song by the time the film "Alfie" opened in the US in August 1966. Two of these covers actually predate the Cher recording although neither was released prior to Cher's, the first evident recording of "Alfie" by an American singer being that cut by Jerry Butler in May 1966 which first appeared as
Twickenham Studios the studios with Kenneth later going on to form Alliance Film Distributors. In the 1960s classic films such as "Alfie" (1966) starring Michael Caine, "The Italian Job" (1969), featuring Caine and Noël Coward, and Roman Polanski's first English language film "Repulsion" (1965). "Be My Guest" (also 1965), features Jerry Lee Lewis, an early appearance by the young actor Steve Marriott and The Nashville Teens. The first two Beatles feature films were made at Twickenham "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) and "Help!" (1965), and also their promotional film for "Hey Jude" (1968). The Beatles used the studios while rehearsing music for