ABOUT THIS ITEM

Chess Records takes on the music of Burt Bacharach, with amazing results - thanks to the deep soul vocals from the Dells and impeccable production from the legendary Charles Stepney! The album's a tremendous meeting of minds, as The Dells really transform Bacharach's brilliant compositions - giving them depth and feeling in ways that are quite different from any other renditions of the songs. The Arrangements by Stepney are incredible too - on a par with his work for Minnie Riperton, Rotary Connection and Ramsey Lewis - as majestic as Burt might have wanted, but with a very different approach, and a slight undercurrent of funk. Instrumentation is by Stepney, Phil Upchurch and members of The Pharoahs, plus a full string section as well. Another baroque-soul classic from the glory days of the Chicago soul scene.