The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Great choice of concerts in London last night - Michel Legrand acoompanied by the full Royal Philarmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, or Dionne Warwick at the Royal Albert Hall. Having seen Dionne on several occasions, I went for Michel, and the music was truly outstanding (Windmills of You...

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Fabulous, thank you pjms for posting. Whatever happened to that song.

Anyone else like Sam Smith?
Lots of good chords there.

This was a really fun concert, with an end-of-a-long-tour kind of feel, held outdoors at the marvellous ruined Roman amphitheatre at Ostia Antica. Perfect size for a Burt concert, lovely balmy warm evening, everything was just fine. Congrats to the Italian fan club who unfurled a huge BB banner at t...

I'm going to see Burt in Rome next week - maybe I can do something with my i-phone.

I note he didn't wear an England football shirt to this particular gig...

I was privileged to hear “With A Voice”, a new song from Burt, played publicly for the first time at the Royal Festival Hall last night. I loved it. Also two new songs co-written with an American lady whose name I didn’t catch, whose voice is beautiful Burt played the entire concert in an England fo...

I went and came away slightly underwhelmed. All her songs are sung with much the same arrangement and feel - I think she needs to up the variety. And the comparison with Karen Carpenter - which I can get from Rumer's CDs - wasn't evident at all. Only one Bacharach song - A House is Not a Home - sung...

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All we need now is some concert dates....

Anyone else going to see Rumer at Ronnie Scott's on June 19?
Good venue for her methinks.