The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I have a Belgian friend (for all those non-EU folk, Belgium is next to France and has unspeakably good beer and desserts). He tells me that there is a town there called Hazebrook - which some people spell Hazebrouck. This depends on whether you are french or flemish-speaking (these are the two lang...

Thanks everyone, fascinating. The overriding impression seems to be a place hardly worthy of "throw some things in a grip..... take the early train; it's a beautiful trip.... don't forget the name" As an aside, is the Bacharach: Song by Song book worth it?; it's not available here in the ...

Glad to hear I'm not the only one. I have a seven year old daughter who knows every word of Riverboat (although not exactly their meaning!). The whole song is so evocative - It's July on the river, 95 in the shade... - and Burt's trademark change of tempo works beautifully is this song, rather than...

Just sometimes the pretty stuff - Promises, Make It Easy, San Jose et al - gets tiresome. And so I turn to disc 3 from Something Big and there I find a collection of some quite remarkable jazz-instrumental tracks. Rarely mentioned, wholly understated. Just listen to the genuinely uplifting "An...

Burt played the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, London in 2002 and a certain Will Young was a guest vocalist. Will was an early winner of one of those find-a-star TV shows, but to his credit has an exceptional voice. Burt wrote him a song which they premiered at that concert - What's In Goodbye - ...