Richard Rodney Bennett - Goodbye for Now 

Tres ‘Camp’, but who gives…… Enormously talented, and leaves a huge pile of terrific music, be it Jazz, Film…Etc….

Lyrics by Charles Hart. This is the earlier recording, for a BBC Music Mag cover CD. I once asked Richard why he'd later changed the lines 'And trust that sex is not hampered / By my being dead' to '...that sex is stupendous / In the years ahead' [eeeurghurgh]: 'We thought it sounded a bit too Fortnum & Mason' (Charles disputes this). RA

Wonderful music by a superb talent. He added so much to life.

I wonder if they played this at his funeral.

“My modest flat, goes to my cat”. Goodbye for now, Richard, and thanks.

I LIKE that lyric: "I left my scribblings to prove I was alive." That's most likely when I'll be noted (ha) for my notes, both on the scales and in print. Nice to know he had a notion of this, too.