The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I may have done myself and others a disservice by burying this greedy, sniveling post deep in an earlier one, so I`m shamelessly repositioning it here: Posts: 75 Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: demos -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keit...

Keith: At the risk of placing myself in the analogous position of Erwin in Nabokov`s A Nursery Tale (snooty lit reference, I know)--if you could part with the rest of Burt`s Lost Horizon demos I, for one, will ask for no more. Even if you can`t , thanks again for all you`ve done!

A beautiful little gem; thanks again!

Thanks, Keith! I hadn`t heard this in decades! A few of Burt`s best melodies are tucked in here.

Parenthetically - What ever became of Joanie Sommers, anyway?

Actually, $5.99 is about two dollars more than I paid for my original copy (which yours may well be). Considering the album`s very brief playing time, it`s also about what it would cost now in a well-run world. I`m grabbing the re-issue because I miss Joanie Sommers` version of Try to See It My Way,...

For those, like me, who have followed vaporous leads, watched on-line orders produce nothing but apologies from depleted sources, and otherwise been !#%&@*-ed over...Amazon is accepting pre-orders for a re-re-re-issue due from Universal in late June/early July. This looks good; let`s hope.

I have to correct myself - LBF appears on Rare Bacharach Vol. I
(For those who came in late: there was and will be no Vol. II due to licensing hassles).

I can`t say I was a huge fan of his work, but his recording of True Love Never Runs Smooth not only paraphrases Shakespeare but is one of the earlier examples of Burt`s classic, mid-sixties syle. On the other hand, there was the forgettable Little Betty Falling Star, which I haven`t heard since the ...

From the earliest, pre-release interviews to the present Burt has been displaying the zeal of the new convert. He shakes his head ruefully as he considers his political apathy and inactivity during the late `60s/ early 70s and now wants us all to understand his position. As I`ve mentioned before, I`...

Let1s see... Aaron Copland AND Elton John? Burt might console himself with the wisdom of Groucho Marx: "I wouldn`t belong to any club that would have me as a member."

In the spirit in which the original post was added... I ripped and burned the Burt and Hal songs from Dionne`s albums and crammed them onto three cds to which I just listened in succession. For what it`s worth, these are the tracks I re-played spontaneously: Please Make Him Love Me Don`t Say I Didn`...

Ron- I`d like to suggest that a "hit" begins with a label`s A&R guy`s decision to release a given recording as a single. If the performer`s audience is already predisposed to enjoy the style, the song will most likely work commercially. If the track is generally in sync with a prevaili...

Believe it or not, Burt screwed up his first pass at "Raindrops..." on the first of his two nights in Buffalo, too. Since this obviously isn`t "schtick", I`m wondering if some part of Burt`s subconscious is finally beginning to rebel against feeling the need to play already numbi...

Let`s admit it... At This Time was not what we hoped it would be. Despite its very real pleasures it wasn`t quite Bacharachian enough. My suggestion: Rewind to `99 and the Isn`t She Great soundtrack. Sure, the movie was crap (Who saw it? Not me). But for sheer melodic inventiveness it outranks the n...

I just watched the interview with Tavis Smiley and, not for the first time, noted the statement (unchallenged by Burt) that this was his first "solo" project in fifteen years. Now, I`m getting on in years myself, but my math results in twenty-six years since Woman. Is there a compilation o...