A Thousand Kisses Deep is the sixth studio album by trumpet player Chris Botti. It was released by Columbia Records on September 13, 2003. Guest vocalists include Chantal Kreviazuk on "The Look of Love" and Bridget Benenate on "Ever Since We Met". The album title comes from the name of the fourth track, "A Thousand Kisses Deep", a cover of the 2001 Leonard Cohen track.[2]
^Leonard Cohen, in turn, may have drawn inspiration from lyrics used by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Act I, Scene 2 of his opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("The Abduction from the Seraglio", K.384), sung by Pasha Selim's overseer, Osmin, to the lovesick Spanish nobleman, Belmonte:
OSMIN: Wer ein Liebchen hat gefunden, Die es treu und redlich meint, Lohn' es ihr durch tausend Küsse; Mach' ihr all das Leben süße, Sei ihr Tröster, sei ihr Freund. Trallalera, trallalera.
If you should ever find a sweetheart
Who will live for you and you alone, Give her at least a thousand kisses,
And make her life a dream come true,
As her comfort and very best friend!
Trallalera, trallalera!