The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Knowing how seriously Bacharach takes these awards, I'm sure he must have been very disappointed that 'Some Lovers' failed to win the Grammy on Sunday night for Best Theater Album. The award went to 'The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical', with Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cinderella' also trailing in its wake.

I agree. Both the lead and backing vocals blend wonderfully well with the arrangement. I've long thought that You'll Never Get To Heaven is one of Bacharach's most underrated tunes, not least by the composer himself who to my knowledge has never featured the song in one of his concerts.

One of the numbers not on the album is Wives And Lovers and I have an LP by Tony Hatch from the mid-60s that includes his version of it with vocals by an all-male singing group. Listening to his jazzy arrangement that features solos for flugelhorn and tenor sax just makes me wish that he'd recorded ...

We finally got hold of a copy of the CD of the album and we're thoroughly enjoying it. Here's the album's instantly attractive opening track.

I watched In The Heat Of The Night again a few days ago and it reminded me of this song's inclusion in the movie. I think the combination of the film's subject manner and Quincy Jones's music took the Bergmans into areas that may have been new to them lyrically. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7HqIEtA...

It was unusual for a pair of writers to become well-known for collaborating exclusively on the lyrics of songs, especially when that pair just happened to be a married couple. Apart from The Way We Were (music by Marvin Hamlisch) and the Windmills Of Your Mind (music by Michel Legrand), Alan and Mar...

By 1965 Dionne Warwick would have already been well aware of Bacharach's fame in the UK after her visits to promote her single releases, and through her Hal David would have known of all the hype surrounding his songwriting partner, but I should imagine that they both must have been more than a litt...

The orchestration on 'Be Aware' is my favourite arrangement of all the songs on the album. I recently listened again to Laura Nyro's recording of the song which was released posthumously and was reminded that she didn't include the lines, "And while your stomach's full somewhere in this world s...

After hearing it on a French radio tribute to Bacharach the other day a friend alerted me to a version of 'Wives And Lovers' by Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington which is from a live album recorded in Stockholm in 1966. Listening to the arrangement I can't imagine that it is by Duke Ellington hims...

I see that this album is now available on the streaming services Spotify and Apple but when I look for the CD on Amazon it's not there, not even on the Dutch version of the site. However, as I can hear the whole album for free on YouTube courtesy of Trijntje Oosterhuis herself, why should I worry ab...

We saw Jessica Radcliffe and her group at the Pizza Express in Soho a few weeks after her gig at the Bull's Head in 2019 and were really impressed at how comfortable she seemed with Bacharach's often tricky material. As for this Sunday lunchtime, we're going to wait to see how we feel on the day.

Originally scheduled for release in mid-September, then late October, the latest release date is November 26th.

Another song by Leslie Bricusse that sounds like it was influenced by some of the old Music Hall favourites was 'I've Never Seen Anything Like It', performed so memorably in 'Doctor Dolittle' by Richard Attenborough. I believe Bobby Darin's recording of another song from that movie has been used in ...

Talking of impressive singers, I think it was a master stroke getting Jennifer Holliday of Dreamgirls fame to sing 'Every Other Hour' for this album, especially as the arrangement is very close if not identical to the one featured in Bacharach's shows in recent years. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k...

I've just discovered that the release date for this album has been put back to October 29th.