“Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote this amazing refrain,” says Osborne, “”so I really wanted to stick with it. “(They Long To Be) Close To You” was another. This is the only song on the album that George played an old Wurlitzer on and it just has a great feel to it.” It was always part of the plan to deliver a couple of surprises refashioned as standards. “It just has a little groove to it that puts it in both worlds. Osborne pays homage to his R&B past with his take on “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight.” “We made sure it fits within what’s going on with this project,” he explains. In the end, most of the classics he selected were ones he began singing in Rhode Island nightclubs back when he was just 13 years old. But there are so many that it was difficult narrowing it down to just 12.” So much so that he jokes A Time For Love will be the first in a trilogy of albums so that he can get to all of the songs on his wish list. “I had a pretty clear idea of what songs I wanted to record because I’ve liked them so much over the years. “This album is something I’ve always wanted to do,” Osborne says excitedly.
With the release of A Time For Love, Osborne shows that it is his time, indeed, to finally record the songs he has long adored.
