I can't recall The Fairmount Singers' recording of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance being posted on here before, so here it is.
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- Sat May 11, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Liberty Valance?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 76
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Trains And Boats And Planes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1302
Re: Trains And Boats And Planes
Singer Joanie Sommers has been featured quite a bit on here because of her involvement in the Bacharach & David TV musical 'On The Flip Side' and her version of 'Trains And Boats And Planes' features an arrangement that I think is different enough from the hit recordings by Burt and Dionne to be...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:16 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
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- Views: 1273230
Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Blue, what a great find. According to the IMDB website Burt appeared on The David Frost Show in 1969, but it doesn't stipulate whether it's the UK or the US version of the show. My memory of the UK version is that there was always a substantial studio audience just like the one seen in the video, bu...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:05 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Trains And Boats And Planes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1302
Re: Trains And Boats And Planes
No, Alex Chilton of The Box Tops doesn't sound entirely at ease on their version of 'Trains And Boats And Planes' but it's good that he sang all the lyrics. It's been noted how the song's simplicity attracted some country, folk and rock acts. Conversely, because the chords are so basic jazz musician...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:34 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Trains And Boats And Planes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1302
Re: Trains And Boats And Planes
The relative simplicity of 'Trains And Boats And Planes' probably explains why several country artists have gravitated towards it over the years and back in the day when such places still existed I recall being in a folk club in London and a solo female performer prefacing her rendition of the song ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:00 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Trains And Boats And Planes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1302
Trains And Boats And Planes
One of my personal favourite Bacharach & David songs is 'Trains And Boats And Planes' and I suppose it was inevitable given the fact it was a hit in the UK a year before the US through Bacharach's own recording that the first couple of acts to cover the song were both English, namely Anita Harri...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:48 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2030
Re: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
Bacharach was quite vague in his recollection of the Stephanie Mills album when interviewed by Serene Dominic for the book 'Song By Song': SD: After you split with Hal and Dionne, you got together with Hal again to write the Stephanie Mills album. BB: Oh yeah, yeah. Forgot about that. We were togeth...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:07 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2030
Re: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
Blair, it would certainly make more sense that the new songs for the Stephanie Mills album were written a few years earlier because just 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 ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:18 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2030
Re: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
The first recording of 'Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets' that I heard was by Stephanie Mills, released five years after Dionne Warwick's version and featuring an arrangement by Dave Matthews which is largely based on the one by Bacharach for Dionne, albeit with a longer fade and with som...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2030
First recording of Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
I'd always assumed that Dionne Warwick was the first to record 'Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets', but I've now discovered courtesy of Second-Hand Songs that a singer from New Zealand called Allison Durbin cut it a year before in 1969 for her album 'Soft And Soulful'. I can't find any inf...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt on Air Supply's "Even the Nights Are Better"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1800
Re: Burt on Air Supply's "Even the Nights Are Better"
I can honestly say that I've never heard 'Arthur's Theme' compared to 'All The Things You Are' before, it's nearly always been 'Killing Me Softly With His Song' or occasionally the Cat Stevens number, 'Wild World'. But yes, it's a chord progression that's been used a lot in popular music and I'm not...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Tick Tock Goes The Clock from the Boston Tryout of PP
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1152
Re: Tick Tock Goes The Clock from the Boston Tryout of PP
Jim, the demo of 'Tick Tock Goes The Clock' from June 1968 featuring the singers Rose Marie Jun and Leslie Miller with Burt at the piano and some slightly dodgy backing vocals is found on the album 'Broadway First Take vol.2'. https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=81&v=v_IMi98sZr0&ebc=AN...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Tick Tock Goes The Clock from the Boston Tryout of PP
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1152
Tick Tock Goes The Clock from the Boston Tryout of PP
Here's an extremely rare recording of 'Tick Tock Goes The Clock' followed by 'Turkey Lurkey Time' taken from one of the Boston Tryout shows of 'Promises, Promises' in December 1968. It's obviously an amateur recording and the quality isn't great but it's a fascinating listen all the same, especially...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:30 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
- Replies: 1312
- Views: 1273230
Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Michael McDonald duetting with Donna Taylor on 'On My Own', with Bacharach playing the piano.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:17 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
- Replies: 1312
- Views: 1273230
Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Apparently blue-eyed soul merchant and former Doobie Brother Michael McDonald has been performing since his mid-teens and in 1968 at the age of 16 he made a recording of 'There's Always Something There To Remind Me'. Although he sounds remarkably mature and soulful for someone so young, he's not yet...