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by Blair N. Cummings
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...
by Blair N. Cummings
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.
by Blair N. Cummings
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...
by Blair N. Cummings
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...
by Blair N. Cummings
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...
by Blair N. Cummings
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:
by Blair N. Cummings
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 ...
by Blair N. Cummings
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
by Blair N. Cummings
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?
by Blair N. Cummings
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.
by Blair N. Cummings
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 &...
by Blair N. Cummings
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.
by Blair N. Cummings
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...
by Blair N. Cummings
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...