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
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