Cast: Gregory Porter (singer), BBC Concert Orchestra, Mike Dixon (conductor)
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Diamonds Are Forever: The Don Black Songbook (tv) • 00:28:00 • "The assignment with Quincy Jones was The Italian Job ... and it was very difficult for Quincy because Quincy's background is very much with those great jazz people like Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, Billie Holiday ... mainly an arranger/producer, not really a songwriter. And our brief ... was to write a summery song, and he found it so difficult. I said 'we've got to write something like 'Volare', or 'Come prima', 'Cuando Calienta Il Sol', one of those summery songs. And he stared at his piano for hours and hours and couldn't come up with anything. I finally gave him a title 'On Days Like These' and he still stared at the piano. And I went round the block – he had an apartment in Marble Arch - and I tell you, it took him for ever and ever to come up with such a simple thing, but it worked and it is beautiful, but, when you hear it, it sounds so easy, but ..."
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