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
Alfie (play) Alfie (play) Alfie is a 1963 play written by Bill Naughton. The original London production starred John Neville, and the Broadway transfer starred Terence Stamp. The play was adapted into a film twice, a 1966 version starring Michael Caine and a 2004 version starring Jude Law. The story of an English ladies man, Alfie Elkins, and the many women who come into his life. Directed by Donald McWhinnie, the play ran at London's Mermaid Theatre from 19th June - 13th July, 1963. It then transferred to the Duchess Theatre in the West End, where it opened on the 22nd July.