I absolutely love Claudine Longet, especially her 60's A&M records due to the consistency in arrangement and production (all A&M albums were arranged by Nick DeCaro and produced by Tommy LiPuma). This is a great Roger Nichols/Paul Williams tune and the arrangement and production, with lovely strings, is just wonderfully done.
Chris Montez had two musical periods. Two shots at the limelight.
It's his second musical era (1966-68) that I like the most.
In 1966, Herb Alpert produced 'The More I see You' & with it, Chris had a huge international smash single. It was a cover of a 1940's tune given a sort of 1966 Beverly Hills treatment & was very nice.
Unfortunately the pairing of Chris & Herb didn't produce anymore hit singles but they went on to make four very nice albums.
This song is from the third album, 'Foolin'Around' and it's one of my favourite Chris Montez songs.
There have been a few retrospective Chris Montez compilations and they always seem to leave this song out, which, frankly, baffles me.
It's sort of Rio meets Beverly Hills 1967 in sound.
It's also my favourite version of the song which was also covered by Astrud Gilberto and I believe, many others.