The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

[quote="nowmedical"]Remarkable - for Joss Stone singing "Are You There With Another Boy" If she really did switch the gender around to sing "with another boy" it would have been somewhat remarkable and would have given the song a different slant altogether. Here's a rev...

Joss Stone performing The Look Of Love at a gig a few years ago, which going by her comments was before she'd even met Bacharach and was still hoping that one day she might get the call:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YYfZyMgCxwk

I think we're going to be struggling when it comes to a personal account of these shows as I don't know anyone from the London crowd that's going.

My personal favourite Lou Johnson/Bacharach recording was the b-side of Reach Out For Me, an undeserved fate for such a catchy song:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2M6BY2Flhn4

I think Carmen McRae's recording of 'Alfie' is pretty stunning and I just love her phrasing. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ozYKIWfRpQ I'm aware of two further Bacharach covers by Carmen McRae, The Look Of Love and Close To You, but I don't think either is up to the standard of her recording of Alf...

Renee is great! But don`t miss Hiromi. I once had reservations for a performance by Carmen McRae -the only singer I ever really loved -at the (then-new) Blue Note. Something that I can`t recall caused me to miss the gig and she died not long after. Here`s a great show of the kind I missed: https://...

I don't know about Hiromi in Manchester but if I was based in New York I'd definitely descend upon the Village Vanguard this week to see the Renee Rosnes Quartet. She's been a favourite jazz pianist of mine for years and I've been lucky enough to see her perform live twice, once in London at the Fes...

I never thought much of Another Tear Falls until I heard Gene MacDaniels' riveting performance of the song. Hearing it again now courtesy of this thread made me think of another Bacharach and David song he recorded, this one a real rarity from 1959 and one with interesting enough chord changes to in...

Whenever I hear Jimmy Webb himself performing Wichita Lineman or any one of the dozens of cover versions it really can sound like "just another song" and it was Glen Campbell and his producer/arranger Al De Lory on the original recording who supplied the magic and have given the song its l...

Webb has just commented on the album on his Twitter page. The line, "These rock star composers are the Gershwins of our time", might raise the odd eyebrow or two!

https://mobile.twitter.com/realjimmyweb ... gr%5Etweet

Doris Day was a uniquely talented lady, a great singer and a terrific actress with a tremendous flair for comedy. Every time I hear 'Send Me No Flowers' I wonder how such an attractive song could completely fail to be a hit and, even more puzzlingly, why it remains little known to this day. It's a ...

Lyrically it sounds like a woman's song to a man which suggests it was written for the Painted From Memory musical. The credits reveal that musically it's a co-composition and my guess is that Elvis Costello was responsible for the bridge and Bacharach the rest of the song.

I saw Yuja Wang at the BBC Proms last year and she seemed to revel in having the audience literally a few feet away. She can play the lighter repertoire very convincingly but seems to come in to her own with the more percussive and technically demanding pieces, Prokofiev being an obvious favourite c...

I've seen and heard enough of her on YouTube and on TV to know that she's worth a visit to the 'frozen north'.

I remember back in the early 70s my dad had an album by Les Reed featuring him as arranger, conductor and pianist in instrumental versions of his hit songs. Alongside the hits were a few upbeat and insanely catchy tunes that got used as themes on radio and TV. Listening to this again now after more ...