The Look of Love

Burt Bacharach wrote it first as an instrumental, inspired by Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd in an early cut of Casino Royale (1967), and Hal David added the words; Dusty Springfield sang the first vocal version for the film. Hayes's version opens side one, track three, of ...To Be Continued (Enterprise ENS-1014, released November 28, 1970, 42:03), produced by Hayes and recorded in the summer of 1970. It follows his covers of "Walk On By" on Hot Buttered Soul and "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" on The Isaac Hayes Movement. Dale Warren arranged, with the Bar-Kays, the Memphis Horns and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra among the players listed for the album.

An edited form was issued as a single in January 1971, backed with "Ike's Mood I" (Enterprise ENA-9028), and reached 79 on the Hot 100. The album went to number 1 on the Billboard Black Albums and Jazz Albums charts and 11 on the Billboard 200, and was certified Gold; uDiscover says it spent 11 weeks at the top of the R&B chart, contesting with Curtis Mayfield's Curtis. Diana Krall (2001), Either/Orchestra (1996) and Scott Walker (1969) are among others who recorded the song. We found no studio named, no video and no statement from Hayes on it.