So Hard To Know is a song written by Roxanne Seeman and Rique Pantoja for Chet Baker. It appears in the Oscar-nominated documentary "Let's Get Lost", Bruce Weber's tribute to Chet Baker's life and music. It was included in the album Rique Pantoja & Chet Baker released by WEA in 1987.
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Background
Rique Pantoja composed music for a song for Chet Baker to sing while in Rio de Janeiro. Pantoja recorded the song idea on a cassette, which was delivered by hand to Roxanne Seeman in Los Angeles, to write the lyrics. Seeman wrote the lyrics in Los Angeles and telephoned them to Pantoja, for Chet Baker to record in Brasil, while Baker was in Rio de Janeiro to perform in the Free Jazz Festival, 1985.
So Hard To Know by Chet Baker was produced and recorded by Chico Neves. It was recorded on 206 2" Scotch tape. The analog master tape remained unplayed for almost 30 years, at which time it was transcribed from analog to digital by Anderson Guerra at Bunker Discos, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Credits and personnel
Bass – Sizão Machado Drums – Bob Wyatt Piano, Synthesizer – Rique Pantoja Trumpet, Vocals – Chet Baker Producer-Chico Neves
Let's Get Lost
Chet Baker brought So Hard To Know to Bruce Weber for use in the documentary. It appears in a scene where Chet Baker is in a convertible car, driving down the Pacific Coast Highway in California. Let's Get Lost was released on VHS and Laserdisc in Japan by Nippon Columbia on November 21, 1993. The DVD was released in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2008, and in the United States by Docurama on December 3, 2013. There is a Blu-ray that was released in Italy for Region B. Let’s Get Lost was released in France as a 2-DVD + 1-CD deluxe package. It includes the complete movie remastered in High Definition (DVD 1) plus a second DVD titled "Les Compléments," with bonus extra including a making-of ("À la recherche de Chet Baker") that ends with "So Hard To Know".
Chain of Desire
So Hard To Know appears in the film “Chain of Desire” starring Malcolm McDowell.