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- Sun Aug 27, 2023 1:34 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Robert "Sad Eyes" John / 1968 "Anyone Who Had a Heart / What the World Needs" medley
- Replies: 12
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Re: Robert "Sad Eyes" John / 1968 "Anyone Who Had a Heart / What the World Needs" medley
Going back to Robert John, I've just listened to his 'Sad Eyes' and despite apparently being a Top 40 hit in the UK in 1979 I don't recognise it at all. In my opinion there was a far superior song with the same title written by Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody and recorded in 1976 by a woman with one of th...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:40 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Robert "Sad Eyes" John / 1968 "Anyone Who Had a Heart / What the World Needs" medley
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4181
Re: Robert "Sad Eyes" John / 1968 "Anyone Who Had a Heart / What the World Needs" medley
Re Dusty Springfield not recording 'Knowing When To Leave', to my ears she doesn't seem entirely at ease with the song on the three different TV performances that I've seen on YouTube, sounding breathless, unsure of the song's time resulting in her nearly coming in too early for the chorus on one oc...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Robert "Sad Eyes" John / 1968 "Anyone Who Had a Heart / What the World Needs" medley
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4181
Re: Robert "Sad Eyes" John / 1968 "Anyone Who Had a Heart / What the World Needs" medley
The Carpenters' version of 'Knowing When To Leave' is not only frantic but they also inexplicably change part of the melody in the chorus. Because of the popularity of their Bacharach & David medley this is probably the best known recording of the song and I've heard other versions which actuall...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 3:56 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Robert "Sad Eyes" John / 1968 "Anyone Who Had a Heart / What the World Needs" medley
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4181
Re: Robert "Sad Eyes" John / 1968 "Anyone Who Had a Heart / What the World Needs" medley
Eydie's "Knowing When to Leave" is new to me. She sounds like she popped a Valium just before the session, and that note she lands on and sticks with at 2:05 is definitely worthy of "let get another take, Eydie". It makes me wonder if she and her producer even bothered to listen...
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 3:45 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Robert "Sad Eyes" John / 1968 "Anyone Who Had a Heart / What the World Needs" medley
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4181
Re: Robert "Sad Eyes" John / 1968 "Anyone Who Had a Heart / What the World Needs" medley
As I was listening to this and not quite making it through to the bitter end I found myself starting to mentally compile a list of what I consider to be the worst cover versions of Bacharach songs. One that immediately sprang to mind was Eydie Gorme's 1970 recording of 'Knowing When To Leave'. Go an...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:29 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Willie Tee - "Reach Out for Me" (1970)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3221
Re: Willie Tee - "Reach Out for Me" (1970)
Slightly altering or adding a few grace notes to Bacharach's melodies is fine even if it sometimes can grate but in my opinion his chord progressions should be sacrosanct. Because the majority of his songs are full of jazzy extended chords I've noticed a tendency among some pop, rock and R&B art...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Willie Tee - "Reach Out for Me" (1970)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3221
Re: Willie Tee - "Reach Out for Me" (1970)
While songs with a similar message (Reach Out And I'll Be There & Bridge Over Troubled Water) have gone on to become immortal classics, Reach Out For Me has never quite attained the same status. The gospel influenced recording by The Sweet Inspirations from the late-60s featuring Cissy Houston o...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 2:33 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: The Desperate Hours / These Desperate Hours
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2856
Re: The Desperate Hours / These Desperate Hours
I think it's fair to say that neither song sounds particularly like a Bacharach composition, but then again the same could probably be said of 90% of his pre-1962 output. Talking of record label cock-ups, I remember back in the late 80s Connoisseur releasing a double album tribute to Bacharach and D...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:49 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Bacharach/Sondheim connection
- Replies: 11
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Re: Bacharach/Sondheim connection
From what I've read Hal David would have jumped at the chance of working on another stage musical after Promises, Promises, but not Bacharach as the experience not only took its toll on his physical health it also disillusioned him having to relinquish so much control of his music. In the light of a...
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 11:59 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
- Replies: 1312
- Views: 1277579
Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Anyone hearing the track 'Up And Down' by Judy Singh in 1970 would have been forgiven for thinking it might have been composed by Bacharach. It's credited words and music to David Foster but apparently it's NOT the famed producer/composer of the same name as it's a couple of years before he started ...
- Mon May 29, 2023 3:34 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Ed Ames 1927-2023
- Replies: 5
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Ed Ames 1927-2023
Ed Ames's Bacharach connections go back to the mid-50s when he was part of the singing group The Ames Brothers and Burt was their MD. The singer and actor who has died aged 95 went on to record two albums of Bacharach and David material in the early 70s, including what remains to this day the only v...
- Mon May 22, 2023 7:56 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
- Replies: 1312
- Views: 1277579
Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
The Swinging Blue Jeans' version of 'Don't Make Me Over' was one of three UK hits that so-called Mersey Beat groups had with Bacharach & David songs in the mid-60s, the other two were by a group actually called The Merseybeats and they were 'Wishing And Hoping' and 'It's Love That Really Counts'...
- Wed May 10, 2023 8:09 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Upcoming Cherry Red 4 CD set release
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4433
Re: Upcoming Cherry Red 4 CD set release
While Bacharach would have been very gratified that Frankie Vaughan's version of 'Tower Of Strength' gave him his third UK no.1, he was reported as saying that he thought the tempo was too brisk. That was a common complaint from Burt over the years so did he ever think that the tempo had been too sl...
- Sat May 06, 2023 3:45 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Upcoming Cherry Red 4 CD set release
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4433
Re: Upcoming Cherry Red 4 CD set release
There can't be many compilations that feature not only the likes of 'Peggy's In The Pantry', 'Underneath The Overpass' and 'Three Wheels On My Wagon', but also works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Henry Cowell! As for the three discs of early stuff, I should imagine that most if not all of the...
- Sun Apr 30, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Sheet Music for ALL of Bacharach's Songs?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3923
Re: Sheet Music for ALL of Bacharach's Songs?
A songbook was publishsed in 1973 under the title Bacharach & David Greatest Hits which contained no less than 132 songs, so inevitably it features a lot of lesser known material. Of the two songs you mentioned only 'The Wine Is Young' is included. From my experience of hunting down books on the...