Search found 1123 matches

by Blair N. Cummings
Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:34 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Rare Bacharach covers
Replies: 3
Views: 3349

Re: Rare Bacharach covers

I`ve been waiting for this.
I hesitated to post what I did, but the situation struck me as being analogous to someone crashing a graduate seminar and sounding off without having heard or read any of the other participants. Asking someone to do a little homework isn`t asking a lot.
by Blair N. Cummings
Tue Sep 20, 2022 11:25 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Rare Bacharach covers
Replies: 3
Views: 3349

Re: Rare Bacharach covers

Geoff, At the risk of seeming to be a nag, I respectfully request that you read the available contributions to this forum made over the past couple of decades. If you take the time to do that, you will find that your examples of everything have been cited before and that all of your topics - and man...
by Blair N. Cummings
Mon Aug 29, 2022 5:22 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Replies: 268
Views: 543358

Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach

Come on, it`s not a matter of my approval. It`s just my opinion. I never said no one was influenced by Bacharach. It just struck me that most of the examples were either well-known or a real stretch. It was when I saw the 416,000 entries that the whole thing had become irrelevant. If you and others ...
by Blair N. Cummings
Sun Aug 28, 2022 1:59 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Replies: 268
Views: 543358

Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach

Fair enough...but it doesn`t change my mind. :D
by Blair N. Cummings
Sun Aug 28, 2022 10:20 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Replies: 268
Views: 543358

Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach

Guys, if 416,000 songs "sounded like" Bacharach, there would be nothing unique about his compositions. A "leap" and a couple of odd intervals do not a Bacharach song make.
This is an irrelevant topic and I really wish it could be taken down. :D
by Blair N. Cummings
Fri Aug 26, 2022 4:16 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Another Rare Laura Nyro Clip
Replies: 10
Views: 15705

Re: Another Rare Laura Nyro Clip

It was "Timer."
by Blair N. Cummings
Sun Aug 21, 2022 8:21 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Who is Bacharach's second best writing partner?
Replies: 12
Views: 5161

Re: Who is Bacharach's second best writing partner?

I think it`s very much up for debate (however heretical) that Hal was Burt`s best lyricist - albeit indisputably his most commercially successful. I`ve always thought it regrettable that Burt never had a partner with the sophistication of a Larry Hart or a Cole Porter. I understand that these men we...
by Blair N. Cummings
Tue Aug 09, 2022 1:45 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: R. I. P. Lamont Dozier
Replies: 3
Views: 2497

Re: R. I. P. Lamont Dozier

Here`s one many missed, appearing on the criminally overlooked Nikki Jean album:

(And, whatever became of her?)
by Blair N. Cummings
Wed Aug 03, 2022 2:38 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Mystery Song, Mystery Writers
Replies: 4
Views: 2558

Re: Mystery Song, Mystery Writers

THANK YOU111
by Blair N. Cummings
Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:18 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Burt Recording on Dreamworks Records?
Replies: 1
Views: 1763

Burt Recording on Dreamworks Records?

It`s deep in this obit of Mo Ostin (worth reading in its own right for us geezers of a certain era), but Burt is reported as having signed with them. Well into my senior years, I may be overlooking the obvious - I`ve done that a lot lately - but I can`t come up with anything. What`s right in front o...
by Blair N. Cummings
Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:38 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Mystery Song, Mystery Writers
Replies: 4
Views: 2558

Mystery Song, Mystery Writers

This has nothing to do with Burt but is of similar melodic invention. The credits are to three names who are not known to me or known to have written (in any combination or singly) another song.

Anyone have a clue?
by Blair N. Cummings
Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:42 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: "I Never Cry"
Replies: 3
Views: 2555

Re: "I Never Cry"

I was pretty sure that Burt didn`t collaborate on the song (It`s not listed in "Serene Dominic"`s book, anyway). But I also know that Todd Rundgren, for one, would often add to - or flat-out write - a song without taking a credit for someone he was producing. Since Burt and Vince hung out ...
by Blair N. Cummings
Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:16 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: "I Never Cry"
Replies: 3
Views: 2555

"I Never Cry"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AUkUfH29yA Tell me Burt didn`t write the music to this chorus. I`ve only recently been reminded of this song because it was the closing theme to a dark comedy called `God Bless America.` The song is from 73 when Vince/"Alice" (whose band I was too old to be...
by Blair N. Cummings
Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:43 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Burt in Concert at the Adler Theatre 1986
Replies: 3
Views: 2926

Re: Burt in Concert at the Adler Theatre 1986

I last saw Burt in 2005 and he was still employing the same arrangements he had been using since the mid-sixties. If he ever changed them, I`d like to hear examples.