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- Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt to write foreword to new book
- Replies: 22
- Views: 47570
Re: Burt to write foreword to new book
Thanks Barry. Yes, I appreciate it was a subject you were going to have to broach with a great deal of sensitivity with the lady. I look forward to the book's eventual publication.
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:50 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt to write foreword to new book
- Replies: 22
- Views: 47570
Re: Burt to write foreword to new book
Anyway, I am going to speak with Anita tomorrow, and I will attempt to give you and the forum an answer. Yes, please do. Although I find it hard to believe, I suppose she might, just might, have spent the past fifty years in blissful ignorance of the error and you're the first person to raise the i...
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:35 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt to write foreword to new book
- Replies: 22
- Views: 47570
Re: Burt to write foreword to new book
The 'Reflect On The Hits Of Bacharach and David' is a nice album but the sad thing about it is the amount of time Anita Kerr and her singers must have spent on their otherwise lovely a cappella version of 'A House Is Not A Home' to make the harmonies sound as excuisite as they do, only to mess-up th...
- Thu Jan 16, 2020 12:55 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: How Does A Man Become a Puppet vs. She's Gone Away
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9656
Re: How Does A Man Become a Puppet vs. She's Gone Away
No, the music and the words just aren't a natural fit. You've got to hand it to Ed Ames for recording not one but two albums of Bacharach and David material. He's still around at the age of 92, bless him.
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 2:31 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: I Say a Little Prayer Rehearsal Film from 1966
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7635
Re: I Say a Little Prayer Rehearsal Film from 1966
One extraordinary fact about Dionne's I Say A Little Prayer is that it completely bombed in the UK and to this day is rarely if ever heard on British radio. Was it even released as a single in the UK? Even though I was only a child at the time I was forever listening to the radio and I can't ever r...
- Sat Jan 11, 2020 5:43 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Blast from the past
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5500
Re: Blast from the past
Mark, when I said that Stefan Wesley had "disappeared" I didn't mean to imply that he'd, you know, disappeared from this world only that he was no longer conspicuous online. Certainly his Hitmaker Archive, the site that catalogued every known recording of Bacharach's songs, seems to have v...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:12 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Blast from the past
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5500
Re: Blast from the past
Yes Mark, for me at least Stefan Wesley's name is the most conspicuous. Sadly both he and his famous Hitmaker Archive site have long since disappeared.
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:55 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: New album in 2020?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10970
Re: New album in 2020?
Of course there was a time back in the mid-60s through to the early 70s that a Bacharach album could sell 100,000 copies in the UK alone. Two of his albums, Hitmaker and Portrait In Music, went Top 5 in the UK album charts, the latter hanging around the charts for several months. I'm not sure if 'Po...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 2:01 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: New album in 2020?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10970
Re: New album in 2020?
I hate to start the new year on a downer but judging by his comments in recent years regarding the state of the recording industry I don't think we should expect a new album any time soon, if at all. I'll be delighted beyond words if he proves me wrong, but I won't be holding my breath.
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 1:04 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: La Belle Epoque
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6106
Re: La Belle Epoque
.......Didn't we do a thread a few years ago on unexpected places to hear Bacharach records? Yes there was a thread dedicated to hearing Bacharach in unusual places, from BBC's Gardeners World using excerpts from the soundtrack of 'Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid' to me overhearing a group of sc...
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:04 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
- Replies: 1312
- Views: 1278680
Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
I don't associate Harry Connick Jr. with Bacharach's songbook but I've just discovered this on YouTube. I'd forgotten how indebted to Frank Sinatra Connick's singing style is so I suppose it's inevitable that he'd cover one of the only two Bacharach songs recorded by Frank. https://m.youtube.com/wa...
- Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:13 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
- Replies: 1312
- Views: 1278680
Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
I don't associate Harry Connick Jr. with Bacharach's songbook but I've just discovered this on YouTube. I'd forgotten how indebted to Frank Sinatra Connick's singing style is so I suppose it's inevitable that he'd cover one of the only two Bacharach songs recorded by Frank. https://m.youtube.com/wat...
- Sat Sep 21, 2019 12:44 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Swing out Sister new cd
- Replies: 56
- Views: 124057
Re: Swing out Sister new cd
Happy 60th birthday today to Corinne Drewery, lead singer and songwriter in Swing Out Sister and a fellow Bacharach fan. 'Mama Didn't Raise No Fool' is a favourite of mine of theirs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-g_RwP2II
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-g_RwP2II
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 1:56 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: With A Voice
- Replies: 20
- Views: 48931
Re: With A Voice
Slower than I remember it from Oxford last year but still special. Based purely on this concert version of the song I'd say it's one of Bacharach's best compositions of the last fifty years.
- Sun Jul 21, 2019 1:57 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt Bacharach and Joss Stone, London, July
- Replies: 23
- Views: 65160
Re: Burt Bacharach and Joss Stone, London, July
Joss Stone in her dressing room before one of the shows with Bacharach running through 'The Look Of Love' with John Pagano on guitar.
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