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- Sat Feb 11, 2023 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Still Unreleased
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2692
Still Unreleased
It`s true, David B., that there will be no new songs but there were two nearly completed with Tashian that he plans to finish, the abandoned `Snow White` score, as well as that for `New York Animals`. Whether any demos exist for the shows is unknown to me, but there must be plans to examine the &quo...
- Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:57 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Thanks For Everything
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14098
Re: Thanks for everything.
Words fail.
Except for those comprising this forum which, for all of the occasional contentiousness, will remain a major testimony to the effect his music had on so many.
Except for those comprising this forum which, for all of the occasional contentiousness, will remain a major testimony to the effect his music had on so many.
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:35 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Do You Know the Way to San Jose Cover Search
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3995
Re: Do You Know the Way to San Jose Cover Search
Paul, My recollection is that it was at Carole`s insistence that Burt rid his melodies of the eccentricities that actually defined them in order to re- appear on the charts in a less adventurous musical era. Again, my memories may be faulty but I recall her appraisal of PFM as less laudatory and mor...
- Mon Jan 23, 2023 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Simon Napier-Bell on Burt / What's New Pussycat
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2720
Re: Simon Napier-Bell on Burt / What's New Pussycat
So, Burt didn`t compose his score for the allotted times in the movie, as he did for `Butch Cassidy...`? He just dumped pieces of music and went home, leaving Napier-Bell to do what, exactly? Edit Burt`s compositions? Re-configure them? And Burt was okay with this? The story is interesting but parti...
- Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:38 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt in LA next month
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5185
Re: Burt in LA next month
This event still puzzles me. Assuming that the A&M label was not re-launched, that neither Burt nor Sergio Mendes was there, and that for some arcane reason Dionne was...WTF? Did this make any sense to anyone there? Not that Jerry doesn`t deserve credit for his accomplishments, but neither he no...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 8:28 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: R.I.P.—Thom Bell
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3340
Re: R.I.P.—Thom Bell
Bell was also one of those writers who generously agreed to collaborate with the stunning "should-have-been", Nikki Jean:
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:01 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt in LA next month
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5185
Re: Burt in LA next month
Better late than never, I suppose, but this seems awfully late. For how many decades has the entire A&M catalogue been secreted in a bomb-resistant bunker? And why just Jerry? And what happened to Sergio Mendes? And why Dionne, whose sole recording for the label was the singing of the last line ...
- Wed Dec 07, 2022 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Songs of Bacharach & Costello 4-album collection in 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15635
Re: Songs of Bacharach & Costello 4-album collection in 2023
And I hope he "autographs" it using the same scam that "Dylan" used - the slimeball:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/arts ... ature.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/arts ... ature.html
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:32 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Lost Horizon demos
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3031
Re: Lost Horizon demos
These are gems. They were once available as a bootleg and I grabbed them then.
There also exists (although I`ve never heard) an "unauthorised" recording of the now-forgotten `New York Animals` score.
Last, did the `Snow White` songs ever reach the demo stage?
There also exists (although I`ve never heard) an "unauthorised" recording of the now-forgotten `New York Animals` score.
Last, did the `Snow White` songs ever reach the demo stage?
- Sun Nov 20, 2022 12:19 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Bob Dylan
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9784
Re: Bob Dylan
It must be another example of the ineffable genius of Bobby Zimmerman that enables him to detect in a song all the flaws that he also concedes have been successfully concealed.
- Sun Nov 20, 2022 6:56 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Bob Dylan
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9784
Re: Bob Dylan
One of the more enduring mysteries of popular culture (to me, anyway) is why people continue to lend any sort of credibility at all to this foul mediocrity. I first posted the following many years ago and again when "Dylan" was awarded the Nobel Prize. I still wouldn`t change a word: Bob &...
- Mon Oct 31, 2022 1:37 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Garage sale treasure !
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4502
Re: Garage sale treasure !
Steve, that`s very interesting news to me. I, too, had always assumed that there was an "official" copy of the composition that I also assumed was written or blessed by the composer.
Never too old to learn.
Never too old to learn.
- Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:12 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Laura Nyro: The Search For Video Footage
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4498
Re: Laura Nyro: The Search For Video Footage
There have been rumors of documentaries "in the works" for over thirty years, many of which seemed credible at the time. There was supposed to have been a video crew at one of the Bottom Line shows I saw around `90 but none ever showed. It`s difficult to guess the interest such a project w...
- Sun Oct 16, 2022 7:38 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Mark Morris Dance Group's The Look Of Love
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2198
- Thu Sep 29, 2022 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: The Bacharach Sound: 1965 TV Special
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21467
Re: The Bacharach Sound: 1965 TV Special
Laura didn`t even get the audio bootlegging that she deserved in those days. When vinyl "unauthorised" albums were everywhere, including abysmal sounding cassette-recorded transfers of "live" performances of everyone from Hendrix to James Taylor, Laura Nyro recordings were conspi...