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Dirk Bogarde Discography of CDs
Dirk Bogarde Music Videos (23)
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Lyrics For Lovers CD (1960)
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This treatment was given to 12 standards by the likes of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Hoagy Carmichael, and George Gershwin, with Bogarde languidly and dramatically intoning over a lush easy listening orchestral backing supplied by the Eric Rogers Orchestra. And, like some other actors who've been cajoled into the studio to make albums in order to exploit their popularity, Bogarde opted to recite lyrics rather than actually sing them. LYRICS FOR LOVERS is a 1960 album of pop standards by actor Dirk Bogarde.
In the tradition of popular actors who can't really sing making records, Dirk Bogarde made his one and only album in 1960, at a time when he'd become one of Britain's leading film stars. The result wasn't to everyone's taste; Elvis Costello criticized it four decades later in a Vanity Fair article. It's not quite on the novelty level of William Shatner, however, if only because Bogarde's a superior actor, and does deliver his lines with suave elegance, though the whole premise of the project is so absurd that the best thespian in the world couldn't really make it work. (Actually Bogarde recorded his vocals accompanied only by piano, the orchestral strings added later.) Certainly this is neither a noteworthy musical endeavor nor anything more than a footnote in Bogarde's estimable career. The arrangements are mushy, and Bogarde's recitations on the likes of "The Way You Look Tonight," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," and "As Time Goes By" sentimental to the point of verging on camp.
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Dirk Bogarde CD discography Alternate spellings: CD discography of songs by band, discographie, dicography, discology, disography, discografie, discogrophy, diskography.
 Dirk Bogarde Songs
Popular or famous Dirk Bogarde music songs: As Time Goes By, Can't We Be Friends, Foggy Day, Get Out of Town, I Get Along Without You Very Well. More music songs Just One of Those Things, Our Love Affair, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, These Foolish Things, Way You Look Tonight, Where or When. More music songs You Go to My Head.
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