The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I recall this coming up a few years back (probably before your time here, Steve). I loved Laura`s work (apart from the glut of posthumous live recordings, many of which ill-served her legacy) but I think her version of this partly illustrates Bachto bacharach`s point about allowing personal quirks t...

I think it`g terrific. In fact, I posted it some time back with great enthusiasm for her as a songwriter in her own right. She recently parted from Columbia Records which was showing no interest in releasing her album. She has since signed with an indie (the name of which escapes me at the moment) t...

If by "artists" you mean interpreters (musicians/singers) we could list names until our fingers bled (if only for a single performance). Successful acolytes(Burt has no serious competitors) are Jim Webb and Roger Nichols. Every once in a while someone pulls a rabbit out of his hat (Was it ...

The resurrection of songs from the Love Machine ST reminded me of a (barely) relevant episode from my own life. Decades ago, I was absurdly employed as a doorman at a Cenral Park South hotel (long gone) that served as a transient home for passing rock bands as well as more or less permanent abodes f...

To be honest, Ron, I`m not sure that I can make the distinctions you`re making, but to play along (and maybe stimulate a New Year`s discussion here), I`ll offer "Who Gets the Guy/Girl?" and "Odds and Ends".

I`m assuming your reference to the "at This Time collection" is really to the multi-disc "Something Big" set released six or seven years ago. If you can still find copies on Amazon or e-bay, it`s probably still your best bet despite the duplication of a couple albums you already ...

I can`t say I care much for Mr. Young, but this is a nice song that had slipped by me. Thanks for posting it.

Jimmy Webb decided over a quarter century ago trhat, since the top 40 no longer smiled on traditional pop, he would have better luck with the ultimate tradition of the Broadway musical. Ask his amenuensis Robin Siegel how many projects and hundreds of songs have gone unproduced and unheard. My worth...

I, too, was underwhelmed by Rumer but for me it has always been the song not the singer that matters.
(BTW, who ARE her "famous parents"? I`m old and had never heard of her before the couple of postings here).

Yeah, this is much more like it! If the rest of the songs live up to this, I`m on board!

...under the radar. I`ve just spent too much time unsuccessfully trying to copy the link, so go to YouTube and type : Nikki Jean - Part 4. It`s a song called Pennies In a Jar by a beautiful and nearly unknown young woman who also has collaborated with Jimmy Webb ("China"). This is part of ...

Maybe because I was so inundated with versions of this song by everyone and his dog back in the day, I never really warmed to it and rapidly became sick of it. It wasn`t until I first heard Burt himself sing it that it moved me. I think it was the version preserved on the otherwise forgettable "...

Bto B: You`re probably right about Dionne not being able to stop the Rhino project; but I recall e-mailing Nathan about finding the remaining Bacharach/Warwick tapes from the mid-70s. His response was that he wouldn`t be finding them any time soon since the project had been halted and that DW had ma...

If Dionne resented not receiving a commercial boost following the PFM project, why then did she stop David Nathan in his tracks during his Scepter re-issue project and declare that his efforts were "not appreciated"?

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