This Guy's in Love With You

"This Guy's in Love with You" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and recorded by Herb Alpert. Although known primarily for his trumpet playing as the leader of the Tijuana Brass, Alpert sang lead vocals on this solo recording.

Alpert originally sang "This Guy's in Love with You" on a 1968 television special. In response to numerous viewer telephone calls, the song was released as a single and reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in June of that year, remaining in the top position for four weeks. It was not only Alpert's first #1 record, but it was also the first #1 record for his A&M record label. The song also spent an impressive ten weeks at #1 on the adult contemporary chart, which at the time was referred to as the "Easy Listening" chart. For the single's B-side, Alpert chose "A Quiet Tear," an album track from his first album in 1962, The Lonely Bull.

Eleven years later Alpert would become the first (and only) artist to reach the top of the Hot 100 with both a vocal performance and an instrumental performance ("Rise", 1979).

Cover versions

• In Italy, the song has been sung by Fred Bongusto in English and by Herb Alpert himself as well as Tony Renis in Italian with the title "Un ragazzo che ti ama" ("A guy who loves you").
• Australian group The Reels released a version as a single and on the album Beautiful in 1982. It reached #7 in the Australian charts.
• The Bad Plus perform this song on their 2007 release, Prog (album).
• Faith No More has performed the song live in 1997 and 2009.
• Barry Manilow recorded a version of this song, which appears on his 2006 album, The Greatest Songs of the Sixties.
• Harry Connick, Jr. recorded it for the soundtrack of the film One Fine Day (1996).
• Noel Gallagher of Oasis sang the song live in 1996 at a Burt Bacharach concert at the London Festival Hall while Bacharach accompanied him on piano and conducted the orchestra.
• Fastball recorded the song and released it on the 1997 compilation "Lounge-A-Palooza", as well as on the soundtrack of the film Failure to Launch (2006).
• Several female vocalists have rendered the song as "This Girl's in Love with You" apparently beginning with Eydie Gormé for whom it was a Top 20 Easy Listening hit. Dionne Warwick's version was releasedas a single in 1969 reaching #7 and that same year Aretha Franklin cut the song to serve as title cut for her This Girl's in Love with You released in 1970. The songs also been recorded by Barbara Acklin, Petula Clark, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita Harris, Brenda Lee, Dusty Springfield and Marva Whitney.
• Julio Iglesias covered the song on his 2006 album 'Romantic Classics'
• Eva Braun covered the song in 2002, but the song had not been officially released until 2008 on the compilation album Off The Record.
• Grenadine (band) covered the song on their 1994 album "Nopalitos", with Jenny Toomey singing lead.
• Guy Klucevsek performed a dirge-like solo accordion version of the song, coupled with the Bacharach-David song "Who Gets the Guy?", on the 1997 Tzadik Records compilation Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach.
• Denny McLain, MLB baseball pitcher, on his album "Denny McLain At The Organ".

This Guy's in Love with You in popular culture

• An instrumental version of the song is used in the television series Quantum Leap, episode: M.I.A.
• The Tijuana Brass version was used in the TV series "Boston Legal" when a viagra-inflicted Denny looks longingly at a sheep, and again at the end of the episode when he sees Katie dressed as a sheep.
• Used in the 1999 Heath Ledger movie, Two Hands
• Used in the 2009 movie, The Boat That Rocked.
• Used in the 1989 movie of Martin Amis' The Rachel Papers.

References

• The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition, 1996

Larry Goldings Trio cover the tune on the album 'Sweet Science'

External links

• "This Guy's in Love with You" at SongFacts.com
• Burt Bacharach: Song by Song, by Serene Dominic

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