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- Sat May 18, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: 1997 short Gene Pitney interview with Bob Greene
- Replies: 3
- Views: 80
Re: 1997 short Gene Pitney interview with Bob Greene
Here's a rare promo film Pitney made for the record. So I've got some questions. Did this woman he was singing about steal all of his money and his car, thus forcing him to ride around America in an empty bus lamenting that he can never, never never go home again? Why the suit and tie? Was he a doo...
- Fri May 17, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: 1997 short Gene Pitney interview with Bob Greene
- Replies: 3
- Views: 80
1997 short Gene Pitney interview with Bob Greene
In a previous comment I mentioned a Gene Pitney quote about "Liberty Valance" I'd seen in Serene Dominic's "Song By Song" book. I decided to see if the interview was online, and lo and behold, the Chicago Sun Times still has it up 27 years later. I didn't see it on the forum; hop...
- Mon May 13, 2024 1:18 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Help find documentary
- Replies: 1
- Views: 93
Re: Help find documentary
If you are looking for a commercial release, my understanding is that it's never been released on consumer video (DVD or VHS). There are, as I assume you know, two uploads of mediocre quality on Youtube. This one seems to be a little better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9uWdhT2vRQ This page call...
- Sun May 12, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Liberty Valance?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 103
Re: Liberty Valance?
I couldn't find anything definitive in Google books, but Pitney's record was definitely on the market by March 31 1962, when it was mentioned in Billboard, and it peaked on the charts sometime that spring or summer (Wikipedia says in April). It's possible that the Fairmount Singers version was relea...
- Thu May 02, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Wives and Lovers- Connie Francis version
- Replies: 2
- Views: 373
Re: Wives and Lovers- Connie Francis version
Connie occasioned this memorable paragraph from Serene Dominic: Despite the success of “Magic Moments,” Bacharach and David would not return to the American Top 5 as a team until “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” in 1962. Needing a hit during that dry spell, they turned to the girl Billboard called...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Trains And Boats And Planes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1744
Re: Trains And Boats And Planes
....prefacing her rendition of the song with these words, "I bet this is the first time a Burt Bacharach song has been performed in this establishment". ....referencing The Box Tops' recording, a version that might be unique in that the lead vocalist is male and he actually sings the song...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Trains And Boats And Planes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1744
Re: Trains And Boats And Planes
Burt gets so much mileage out of four basic chords in this song. It's almost like some of the music on Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue", you hear it and wonder how something so simple could sound so fresh. And the 12-bar verses and chorus feel related to the blues, even if the chord changes don...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: hall of fame
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4527
Re: hall of fame
So Dionne's in now. There's not much I care less about than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but anything that reminds people of how great Dionne Warwick is, is fine by me. If only those judges would sit down and listen to "My Little Red Book" and "Promise Her Anything", they'd re...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2601
Re: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
"I was very conscious of people looking over my shoulder at Motown." - That's the quote I was remembering. Serene was too polite and/or wise to press Burt for more details when Burt was a bit vague, which is too bad. But Burt seems like a guy who lived a very full life, in and out of music...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:44 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2601
Re: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
Wouldn`t their first obligation legally as a team have been to make good on their Warners contract? That's a good question, beyond my knowledge. These kind of lawsuits play out in a lot of different ways, and some artists have more leverage than others based on their copyrights and other factors. C...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:30 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2601
Re: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
I forgot to check Robin Platts' book for this--it's not a book I pick up very often. He's quoting Hal on p.92: "Berry Gordy called me. He was interested in me coming to work for for Motown. I wasn't interested--not because of Motown, but I just wasn't interested in working for a record company,...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2601
Re: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
the idea that Bacharach and David could have collaborated on new material shortly after having filed lawsuits against each other has always struck me as more than a little bizarre. I could see it having gone either way--the songs might have been written for Dionne a few years prior, or the project ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2601
Re: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
I see that there's no reference to this recording in Serene Dominic's Song By Song and it makes you wonder how an obscure singer from New Zealand managed to get hold of a new and previously unrecorded Bacharach & David song and with what sounds like to my ears a Bacharach arrangement? Her Wikip...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: 'The April Fools'
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1059
Re: 'The April Fools'
I actually watched "The April Fools" a few months back for the first time, mainly because of the Bacharach connection and because I love Jack Lemmon. It's obscurity today is probably deserved, but the party scene where Jack meets Catherine Deneuve is so good, almost like something in an Au...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: 'The April Fools'
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1059
Re: 'The April Fools'
Today I learned that tucked away on an Earl Klugh smooth jazz album from 1976 is a nice solo guitar arrangement of April Fools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkV6RZa9wKY&t=43s Earl also did a nice solo version of "Any Old Time of the Day" on his first all-solo album, 'Solo Guitar', a...