The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Noticing all the covers of Warm and Thender, I see that Orchestra leader LeRoy Holmes did a verison of it back in the day...He did it on an ep, as well as The B side to a 45 single(MGM K12460)

Sara I do her a momentary tritone in bar one of the vocal,(or bar 2 if you are doing cut time) but it is merely a side stepping procedure to the next note forming a 4th....almost an ornamental note. It was kind of "jazzy" lol regarding the Leiber and Stoller connection...this is possible, ...

Hey, I ran across this side shot of Texas A&M football playerJohnny Manziel who normally doesnt look anything like Burt..but in ths shot he's a doppelganger for the 1967 Burt, A&M Records days! https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/8/21/4645902/johnny-manziel-investigation-texas-am-...

Alfie gets my vote...

Ive been subliminally thinking about Burt/Dionne record Walk On By.....thinking that Burt might have taken his inspiration musically from Take 5 by Dave Bruckeck, whom Burt admired...
it kind of loosely follows the harmonic scheme for a bit....Any thoughts?

Thank you all for responding to a very difficult question...and hello Nowmedical!

good 3 songs, Martin!

Just curious, if I could get a list of what people think are Burt's top 3 songs of all time..I know this is ridiculously hard.....but if some of you could mention what you feel to be Burt's best, and any lyricist that Burt wrote with is game. I realize that it's all subjective. I would choose: 1. Th...

I know as a songwriter(not famous) I have written some things in hindsight that turn out to be 'not so great"(to me)..and I understand that when people criticize, that they don't realize how difficult it is to write...but I'm not big on this song.....

Wishing all Burt people a very Happy Thanksgiving from Steve...

Ty Blue! : )

Thanks for the information on the "Five BLobs"...I have read elsewhere that it was Bernie Nee overdubbing his voice several times....I'm sure the sax player on the record was a famous
session musician...Anyway, cool record!

Regarding Bob Hilliard, I used to know his wife, and she was based in Hollywood. She said that Burt would come up to their Curson Terrace home and write around the enclosed pool(I was up there a few times) So I'm thinking that at least part of the Bacharach Hilliard years were spent when Burt was vi...

You are right about Ray Brown playing on the TV show mentioned .One time he was coming out and walking down the street, and I talked to him...This was on Vine St. in Hollywood near the Merv Griffin Show.I asked him about his composition Gravy Waltz...(words and recording by Steve Allen)and he was me...

Peggy proved she could do a Burt song, and had no problem with the time signature changes...