"Keep the Curtains Closed Today"

Recently, I listened to The BBC Radio Sessions, and I noticed that the line "Could this be just the start of so many nights like this" in "The Look of Love" is similar to the line "Could this be just the start of coming home" in Colin Blunstone's later "Keep the Curtains Closed Today" (or "Let's Keep the Curtains Closed Today," as it's titled on The Ghost of You and Me).  When I lookt up the lyrics of "The Look of Love," though, all of the sources I referenced listed the line as "Let this be just the start of so many nights like this."  Initially, I suspected that this similarity indicated that Blunstone borrowed from Bacharach's song while writing his own, but because of the lyrical discrepancy with other versions, I'm not sure.  Still, I thought I'd note it here.

"The Look of Love"

I was working on some notation for a different project when I remembered that two weeks ago, I scanned the notation for the bass part in "The Look of Love," which I'd finally finishing writing down a couple weeks before (and a year and a half after I originally learned it).

As always, there's the disclaimer that I might have something wrong.  I'm a bit unsure of what octave some of the notes are in and of those two measures that - apparently - have only two beats rather than four (I'm not sure how that works).

"The Look of Love"

I've been doing some work on "The Look of Love" lately.  I don't remember exactly when I noticed this, but I discovered that the "so" in the last line ("I love you so") is sung with a melisma (D C D), musically giving a sense of degree.

The David Symonds Show

According to the Zombie Heaven liner notes, fifty years ago to-day (10 October 1967), the Zombies recorded "Friends of Mine" and "The Look of Love" for the David Symonds Show on Radio One.  It was broadcast "the week of 16-20 October."