“Wild Is The Wind” by David Bowie

David Bowie reached way back for "Wild Is the Wind", the title song Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington penned for a 1957 movie, a tune that earned the pair an Academy Award nomination, and he gave it a new home on Station to Station in 1976. He arranged it himself and produced it with Harry Maslin; Carlos Alomar and Earl Slick join him on guitars, George Murray and Dennis Davis hold down bass and drums, and Roy Bittan sits in on piano.

What he does with an old movie ballad is croon it slow and wrung-out, like a man meaning every syllable at three in the morning, and his take has become one of the best-known versions of a song that has been recorded over and over.

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