It Must Be Him – VIKKI CARR***

US – It Must Be Him/Can’t Take My Eyes Off You/One More Mountain/A Million Years Or So/So Much In Love With You/Tunesmith/A Bit Of Love/Alfie/Forget You/Look Again/Her Little Heart Went To Loveland UK - It Must Be Him/None But The Lonely Heart/Her Little Heart Went To Loveland/Laia Ladaia/Look Again/Forget You/ Cuando Caliente El Sol/How Does The Wine Taste/Should I Follow/May I Come In/Toys/ San Francisco

Vikki Carr was already an established AOR singer well before her breakthrough with the over emotional hit It Must Be Him, that made the top three in both the US and UK. Different versions of the accompanying album were released. This was to be the highpoint of her career, although she continued to dent the lower reaches of the US album chart into the early 1970s. (US:12 UK:12)

"Carr had been recording for most of the 1960s when she unexpectedly broke big with It Must Be Him, which may be the ultimate torch song, in the fall of 1967. She sang the melodramatic ballad with a sense of torn emotion in her voice, recounting the turmoil of a love affair that has not quite ended, at least as far as the song's narrator is concerned. The It Must Be Him album, not surprisingly, expanded upon this theme to include other songs of lost love, songs that today sound like paeans to female victimization, most of them written by men."

"I have listened to this album over and over again and still can't get enough. Vikki sings with such enthusiasm and passion. She puts her all into the songs, even though the musical arrangements now seem 'old'. I just don't care. To me it's very romantic, very special."

"This lady is maybe the last of a group of people who have gone down in showbiz history of being a singer's singer. She was admired by the best." "Its unfortunate that Vikki should hit with such a maudlin song."

"Vikki Carr was (if you like the old Vegas cover artist/lounge singer type of music), a very talented artist, who could really wring the emotion out of a lyric. Her heart wrenching performance of It Must Be Him still sticks in my head after all this time."

"In retrospect, the 1960s being the starting point of the feminist movement, It Must Be Him was by no means a good place for women trying to assert their independence from men. But heck, that's no fault of Vikki, it's just a song."