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Originally Posted By: pizzaboy
"What Now My Love" was a huge hit for Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, and covered by virtually every lounge singer from Jack Jones to Shirley Bassey. Elvis's version is so unique, being that he practically sung it as a ballad, that it's bone chilling.
But out of the lounge lizard set, no one swung it like Frank:
I love Shirley's version, and the original French version "Et Maintenant," by the songwriter Gilbert Becaud (who sings it more or less as a psychotic).
I cannot, though, pass by the Herb Alpert version when it's mentioned, because it spawned another video that I always shake my head at, for entirely different reasons:
"All of these men were good listeners; patient men."