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by pljms
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: 214

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...
by pljms
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: 144

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...
by pljms
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: 144

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...
by pljms
Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:30 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Replies: 1308
Views: 1249171

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.
by pljms
Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:17 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Replies: 1308
Views: 1249171

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...
by pljms
Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:36 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Replies: 1308
Views: 1249171

Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)

Blue, yes it's a beautiful track and shows a side to Led Zeppelin's bassist that most people wouldn't have known existed. Of course John Paul Jones along with another future member of Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, played on sessions for Burt's 'Hitmaker' album in 1965. I hadn't realised until recently t...
by pljms
Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:41 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Replies: 1308
Views: 1249171

Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)

Madeline Bell has recorded a few Bacharach numbers in her time and his influence is very pronounced in a song that she co-wrote with John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, a track in which he not only plays piano but also arranged and produced. In fact he was at the helm for the whole of Madeline's 'Comin...
by pljms
Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:15 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Replies: 1308
Views: 1249171

Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)

Talking about Dusty Springfield's love of Bacharach, here she is with Martha Reeves and the Vandellas on Ready Steady Go in 1964 performing 'Wishing And Hoping'.
by pljms
Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:01 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Replies: 1308
Views: 1249171

Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)

Here's Madeline Bell talking about how it was working as a background singer on Dusty Springfield's recording sessions and also about Dusty's love of Bacharach.
by pljms
Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:16 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Burt Bacharach Documentary (2001)
Replies: 5
Views: 638

Re: Burt Bacharach Documentary (2001)

Blue, that's a documentary I've never seen before so thanks for posting it here. Although I don't think there's much that's new to us it was good to see the likes of Steve Lawrence, Neil Simon and Leiber & Stoller who we're not so used to hearing talking about Burt and to get their different per...
by pljms
Wed Feb 07, 2024 5:39 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Burt recording at Capitol between 2004-2006
Replies: 4
Views: 461

Re: Burt recording at Capitol between 2004-2006

The session may have been for Bacharach's album 'At This Time' released in October 2005.
by pljms
Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:46 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Bacharach Reimagined Piano
Replies: 1
Views: 699

Re: Bacharach Reimagined Piano

I saw the Bacharach Reimagined show at the Menier Chocolate factory and if I recall correctly the piano was an upright, which depending on the make would normally cost anything from a grand to around £8,000. I think only an auctioneer specialising in the world of entertainment would be able to value...
by pljms
Sun Jan 21, 2024 9:40 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Alt Version of "Pennies in a Jar"...
Replies: 3
Views: 900

Re: Alt Version of "Pennies in a Jar"...

A live rendition of 'Pennies In A Jar' featuring Nikki Jean alone at the piano and of better quality than the live performance posted on here before. The song's piano chord inversions are so typical of Burt.
by pljms
Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:08 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Alt Version of "Pennies in a Jar"...
Replies: 3
Views: 900

Re: Alt Take of "Pennies in a Jar"...

'Pennies In A Jar' is very 21st century Bacharach.

by pljms
Sun Dec 10, 2023 3:07 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Rhino's "Look of Love" turns 25
Replies: 16
Views: 4622

Re: Rhino's "Look of Love" turns 25

The part of the discussion on this thread that I have the most trouble getting my head around is that of a musical figure as legendary and iconic as Burt Bacharach being referred to as "always underrated" by US rock journalist Stephen Holden. Certainly for those of us who grew up in the UK...