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- Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:02 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Your choice for a beautiful Burt co-writer hookup?
- Replies: 22
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Re: Your choice for a beautiful Burt co-writer hookup?
Since I started this thread, I have to apologetically correct my mistakes ... I asked if any great pop writer did his best work real early, then never had hits again, referencing Jimmy Webb. Yes, I correct myself: Cat Stevens was even an earlier casualty. Cat wrote his first (and best) three or four...
- Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:42 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Your choice for a beautiful Burt co-writer hookup?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17652
Re: Your choice for a beautiful Burt co-writer hookup?
Thnx all, BB fan: Elvis composed "at least" the opening musical theme of "God Give Me Strength," so Burt is not averse to other melodists. Burt was no doubt in charge of the music in this project, but Elvis contributed in substantial ways to other songs in the musical standpoint,...
- Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:13 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Your choice for a beautiful Burt co-writer hookup?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17652
Re: Your choice for a beautiful Burt co-writer hookup?
Very embarrassed, I should have compiled the 1-100 list before posting here ... - Joe South. Some deep tunes are as good as Joe's big hits. Beautiful work. Joe's been retired/reclusive for a very long time. Joe's writing is superb, and I hope he puts out a CD or two for fans to get a hold of, before...
- Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:05 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Your choice for a beautiful Burt co-writer hookup?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17652
Re: Your choice for a beautiful Burt co-writer hookup?
Oops, while I'm on a roll.. a) Maybe David Gates of Bread (long out of action, maybe because of the decline of melody?) b) Another very inspired writer like Don McLean, still yearning for beautiful tunes and lyric accd to his site I think ... c) I've run out of names at the moment, a bunch more I'm ...
- Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Your choice for a beautiful Burt co-writer hookup?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17652
Your choice for a beautiful Burt co-writer hookup?
Sorry to elaborate an earlier thread, but nearing the 10th anniversary of the mega-brilliant Burt and Elvis Costello hookup, thinking that Burt would find some new great melodies/tunes in him nowadays by the inconvenience-tension of having to write/record with a similar (but not so good as him) popu...
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:56 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Will Burt and Macca, the last melodists, ever hook up?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4470
Will Burt and Macca, the last melodists, ever hook up?
Paul McCartney just turned 66. Burt 80, right? Just read that George Carlin went to his maker tonight, and either got a merit badge or a slight reprimand :) I've thought of opening this thread for years. Burt hasn't ever expressed, that I've ever read, any real appreciation of the Beatles. Nor has P...
- Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:50 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Dionne Warwick on A&E Classroom Sept. 29 4:00 AM
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2831
- Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:36 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: The Balance of Nature
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6744
- Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:37 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: gilbert o' sullivan fav. song All Kinds of People
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5621
Gilbert had about three hits which were great, and I spent money on his LPs trying to find deep cuts, but to no avail ... just hoping to save money for anyone here from paying money on GEMM ... Gilbert's other stuff is out of print so he won't see royalties from sales so he won't lose money by my di...
- Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:04 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt's Other Christmas Song
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9570
- Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:21 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: burt or paul griffin as pianist on dionne/scepter tracks?
- Replies: 1
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burt or paul griffin as pianist on dionne/scepter tracks?
Coming across the years-old obit on the session pianist Paul Griffin ... that he was supposedly the piano player on many, many of the Dionne sessions with Burt and Hal as writers ... It's disconcerting to me tonight, listening from the front to back of the genius body of Dionne's/Burt's/Hal's work, ...
- Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:08 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Geico Insurance ad
- Replies: 28
- Views: 27944
Sorry to bump, and especially sorry for my earlier overlong post. It seems like I'm alone in standing up for Burt's honor, it's my stupid-ass problem I thinking and who gives a dam about Burt's image to defend etc. I'm serious about this, I'm wrong to even bring it up. Really, who cares? For all of ...
- Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:04 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Geico Insurance ad
- Replies: 28
- Views: 27944
- Wed May 10, 2006 12:10 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Just discovered Scott Walker late 60s composer/lyrics - wow
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7608
Bumping my post, srry ... I fergot to say exactly how beautiful these songs are .. so nice and original are the main part of these tunes ... then come dramatic modulations on the bridges ... unforgettable. These are real tunes folks that have gone undiscovered ... The arrangements are all just rever...
- Tue May 09, 2006 11:05 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Just discovered Scott Walker late 60s composer/lyrics - wow
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7608
Just discovered Scott Walker late 60s composer/lyrics - wow
It seems like every good thing about recent (last half century !!) songwriting came together in the late 60s and VERY early 70s - melody and even beautiful melancholy/minor keys-tunes were popular, became classics, etc ... Lyrics could go any way you wanted. Even James Brown would do Shadow of Your ...