Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) "Alfie" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David to promote the 1966 film "Alfie". The song was a major hit for Cilla Black (UK) and Dionne Warwick (US). Although Bacharach has cited "Alfie" as his personal favorite of his compositions, he and Hal David were not eager to write a song to promote the film "Alfie" (a release from Paramount Pictures, which owned Famous Music) when approached by Ed Wolpin of the Composers' Guild. David thought the title character's name pedestrian: "Writing a song about a man called 'Alfie' didn't seem too exciting
Michael Caine know that'. Now they've got me on Satellite navigation. It's me going, 'take the second turn on the right, and you'll wind up right in the shit.'" In 1983, Caine used his "not a lot of people know that" phrase as a joke in the film "Educating Rita". The comedy sketch show, "Harry Enfield's Television Programme", included a series of sketches in which Paul Whitehouse played a character called Michael Paine; an amalgam of previous Michael Caine impressions, who in a reference to Caine's character Harry Palmer from "The Ipcress File" wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a trench coat. He