The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I trust they're both common sensed enough not to even consider it.

Of course, the title's not original - Michael Ball released his 'Back to Bacharach' album towards the end of last year - and it also suggests that the artist is somehow taking a retrograde step.

I can only speak for myself of course, but I have to say that a Dionne Warwick album which is gospel based and doesn't include any Bacharach material has no appeal whatsoever.

Although many jazz musicians have covered Bacharach over the years, only a few have recorded complete albums of his tunes. The two that immediately spring to mind are Stan Getz and McCoy Tyner, but both their efforts are marred by over elaborate orchestration when all you want to hear is these great...

A recently released Bacharach collection that seems to have slipped this site's attention is by a singer called Valerie Joyce. Called, surprise, Surprise, 'The Look of love - The Music of Burt Bacharach', it features 8 B&D standards plus a couple of songs from the Carole Bayer Sager years. She's...

I hate to be pedantic but for 'song' read instrumental. I actually think the sound quality is surprisingly good. As for the 3 mins of music featured on the file, well, it definitely sounds like Burt, what more can one say?

The blurb mentions McCoy Tyner and John Zorn so he's obviously a jazz musician and probably a legend down at his locale club. I like the mistaken title on the CD cover, 'Wife and Lovers', it's nearly as good as 'Raindrop keeps fallin' on my Heads' and 'I say a liitle Prayer for Me', that I've seen o...

Seeing the title of the video I was expecting a short promo for the album. Shame it's so dark that Trijnte is but a shadow.....and hearing that straight G major chord in place of the maj 7th will always grate. Why do arrangers persist in monkeying around with Bacharach's immaculately crafted chord s...

I'm pleased to say that the UK version of the album includes her take on 'Wishin' and Hopin', which is very loose, very swamp rock - just think of Tony Joe White. I like it because it emphasizes the 4/4 - 2/4 time swtiches. It amazes me that the PC brigade which has virtually condemned 'Wives and Lo...

I have the same LP by the original London cast, with Betty Buckley and Tony Roberts. It has never been issued on CD.

Yes, her version of Anyone Who Had a Heart is a good example of the old maxim that less is more.

I like her version of 'The Look of Love' because it's so rare that you hear an arrangement of this song that adheres exactly, or near enough, to Bacharach's original chord sequence, particularly in the chorus, "I can hardly wait to hold you.....etc etc. A lot of praise has quite rightly been he...

I got the album fairly cheaply on e-bay about a year ago and although I don't automatically buy every all-Bacharach album released onto the market I was interested in this because of the highly unusual song selection. I have to say her voice has to be thinnest I've ever heard commited to disc - more...

This was filmed in London in 1972 with kids from the Corona Stage Academy, one of whom was Nicholas Lyndhurst who Brits will know from the 80s sitcom 'Only Fools and Horses'. He's the little blond boy in the front row at the very end. Don't you just love trivia! This is a great tune, sadly tainted b...

Frank Zappa was never slow to praise Bacharach and his Peaches en Regalia sounds like it could have been taken from the soundtracks of either After the Fox or Casino Royale.