The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

So...Burt`s essentially getting an award for having had successful back sugery and on the same night that Louie Anderson(!) is being recognised for creating a cartoon and being nothing like Rodney Dangerfield but getting an award in his name anyway.
You can`t make this sh-- up!

This is as ridiculous as I`ve always maintained that it is. What kind of recognition is bestowed on Aaron Copland AND Oprah Winfrey? Art may be entertaining, but entertainment isn`t art. This award epitomises the blurring of the distinction. If America had produced a measurable fraction of the works...

I thought it was okay, but it brushed the jazz vocal realm where in this instance particularly I was reminded of and missed Carmen McRae.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTZ_h4obH-0&feature=related This clip has probably been posted somewhere among the 24 previous pages, but I`m not going to search through them all to confirm it. In any event, it`s Richard Harris with Burt from a `72 tv special. There`s the obligatory rendition of ...

I believe it has been confirmed here before that those songs were all written for Dionne just before the Lost Horizon fiasco broke. They were to comprise her second Warner`s album but remained unused until - somehow - Mills got a hold of them two or three years later.

It will be a period piece like "No, No Nanette" in (when was it?) `70 or so, only with a better book. Workplace exploitation, "brown - noses", sexual jealousy are themes as old as Greek drama and Biblical myths, but it`s the music that will prompt the revivals. In fact, PP will p...

Another factor that may skew the interpretation of chart success is that in the era we`re mostly concerned with, the Top Ten or Top Forty encompassed everything from the Yardbirds, Kinks, and Stones through Dionne et al into Percy Faith and Andy Williams. Younger people don`t recall the pre-segmenta...

I`m pretty sure that you`re referring to "The Beginning of Loneliness", a gem to be sure from the Windows of the World album.

I`ve said this before, but since the subject keeps arising... I think that the metastasising of "awards" has cheapened beyond redemtion the value of any of them. At this point an acknowledgement by the KC (or the R&R Hall of Fame, or...or...or...) would be about as much of an honor as ...

You`re right! That is/was/may yet be it!
Go to Amazon UK and you may be placed on a notification list should this thing ever materialise.

Oddly enough, I don`t think this is it. There was something with very early material as well as rare `60s stuff that overlapped surprisingly little with other recent anthologies.
It was remarked upon here frequently that the release date was always being kicked up.

Wasn`t there a new two- (or three-) disc anthology always just-about-to-be-released on Amazon UK?
I can`t recall the title and I`m too lazy to go back through the archives here; but does anyone know what became (or is to become) of it?

That last would be "Let`s Pretend We`re Grown Up". Yeah, I have those and now with "You`ve Got..." I finally burned all this PP stuff (with the original cast recording) to one disc, something I should have done years ago. Thanks for the info, Steve. I thought it was for that revi...

I know this was first performed in the early `90s revival. What I`m not sure of is whether it was written for that production or if it was a song cut from the original score or even one from the aborted movie version. Anyone?

Sorry, but this is the sort of thing Burt tossed off in his sleep during the 80s. It sounds like an out-take from the Night Shift soundtrack.