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
The Caine Mutiny 1952, when it was replaced by "My Cousin Rachel". It moved back to first place on May 25, 1952, and remained another 15 weeks, before being supplanted by "The Silver Chalice", and last appeared on August 23, 1953, after 122 weeks on the list. In 1954 Columbia Pictures released the film "The Caine Mutiny" starring Humphrey Bogart as Queeg in a widely acclaimed performance that earned him the third and final Academy Award nomination of his career. After the novel's success, Wouk adapted the court-martial sequence into a full-length, two-act Broadway play, "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial". Directed by Charles