He wrote Feeling Good, You Only Live Twice, Goldfinger, and lots of other stuff
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 21, 2021 1:25 AM |
was there ever a Bond song that topped Goldfinger? 55 years of Bond themes and you're still like....well, it's no Goldfinger!!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 19, 2021 9:53 PM |
This poor man had to deal with the egomaniac Anthony Newley.
And I think he collaborated with Freddie Raphael.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 19, 2021 10:26 PM |
[quote] "This poor man had to deal with the egomaniac Anthony Newley"
Well, he got his when he married (and divorced) Joan Collins. She HAS to be insufferable.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 19, 2021 10:30 PM |
Wow. Grew up with his music and didn’t know his name…
RIP and “Thank You Very Much!”
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 19, 2021 10:33 PM |
I love "Thank You Very Much"
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 20, 2021 12:28 AM |
I want the world!
I want the whole world!
I want to lock it all up in my pocket
It's my bar of chocolate--
Give it to me now!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 20, 2021 12:33 AM |
Most importantly, he was a composer with George Aleison Tipton of the theme to It’s a Living.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 20, 2021 1:31 AM |
Now that's one I would have assumed died years ago.
He wrote some pretty iconic songs.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 20, 2021 1:59 AM |
[quote] Most importantly, he was a composer with George Aleison Tipton of the theme to It’s a Living.
Does anyone remember when someone out of the blue posted a poll on Datalounge asking "What is life least like?" The poll choices were:
(1) The French Riviera
(2) A charity ball
(3) A great big bed of roses
(4) Show-biz
That was so random it made me laugh.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 20, 2021 2:12 AM |
I have to ask, r10, why is a charity ball better than other balls?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 20, 2021 2:20 AM |
FEELING GOOD had a long, slow build to becoming a standard..... for about 20 years during the 70s/80s nobody recorded it, and then was heavily recorded since m buble put it out in 2005. I rember Gilbert Price singing it on Merv Griffin in the 60s.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 20, 2021 2:49 AM |
I like this somewhat demented version by the ever-glamorous Lola Falana.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 20, 2021 3:23 AM |
I liked his "You Only Live Twice" by Nancy Sinatra!
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 20, 2021 3:30 AM |
Bricusse wasn't Jewish but he and Newley pretended their names were 'Brickman and Newberg; in order to infiltrate the Jewish dominated musical theatre landscape in the 60s.
This Oscar-winner describes Bricusse hustling for his first musical while at Cambridge in the late 50s.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 20, 2021 3:41 AM |
Pauline Kael: "Leslie Bricusse is the name of a form of instantly disposable music; your mind flushes it away while you're hearing it."
(She devotes a whole paragraph to how bad the score for Goodbye Mr Chips is, and that clip at R8 backs her up.)
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 20, 2021 3:48 AM |
R19 The original Goodbye Mr Chips was a dreary, nauseatingly-sentimental thing with Robert Donat in horrible make-up.
I'm sure the rather boring remake hoped to cash in on Julie Andrews' success with a second-rate Julie in Petula Clark. And Peter O'Toole manages to destroy 90% of the projects he was involved with.
Wiki says the original song score was by André and Dory Previn who I assume would have had Pauline Kael's approval.
The final music and lyrics were supposedly by Leslie Bricusse (either though he was NOT a musician) but IMDB says the music score was 'ghosted' by an uncredited John Williams.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 20, 2021 4:20 AM |
I love Josh Groban even though he is a Frau favorite. Beautiful voice and wonderful version of Bricusse's "Pure Imagination."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 20, 2021 5:26 PM |
He told me I could even eat the dishes, and I nearly sliced my tongue off.
Asshole!
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 20, 2021 6:01 PM |
He shoulda been there to accept his Oscar from Babs (while she was still in her Orphan Annie phase).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 20, 2021 7:29 PM |
Bricusse was one of those hugely prolific songwriters who wrote a lot of crap, alongside some terrific songs. Dear God, has anyone seen that Mia Farrow Peter Pan? Those songs are by Bricusse.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 20, 2021 8:28 PM |
Oompa loompa doompety dead.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 20, 2021 8:42 PM |
Was he friends with Michael Cain?
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 20, 2021 8:58 PM |
Mariah had to personally call Leslie Bricusse for his permission to use parts of "Pure Imagination" for this remix. Apparently he said 'yes.'
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 20, 2021 9:31 PM |
"Talk to the Cloned Dogs"
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 20, 2021 9:34 PM |
Dame Shirley Bassey is the best interpreter of his songs. The best ones all lent themselves to loud, dramatic, over-the-top, hyper-emotive interpretations. Not that quiet, languid stuff that Petula or Nancy Sinatra were doing.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 20, 2021 9:44 PM |
I thought he wrote "Oliver", but now see that was Lionel Bart.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 20, 2021 10:44 PM |
And the gorgeous Evie (Yvonne) Romain Bricusse — her last role being Sheila in "Last of the Sheila" — is now a widow. She was always fun in early Hammer movies, and such.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 21, 2021 1:25 AM |
