The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

.....I envy anyone who attended SOS's Jazz Cafe gig in '92 and it's amazing to think that until then they'd hardly played a concert anywhere. When they finally started touring they stunned audiences and impressed the critics not only with their virtuosity and the complexity of the arrangements but ...

In another thread Paul mentioned that SOS featured Wives and Lovers in their set the night they supported Bacharach at the Royal Albert Hall in the mid-90s. I was also there that night and I too remember Wives and Lovers being performed in some shape or form. However, instead of a complete rendition...

I love the more laid back arrangement heard in the rehearsal of 'Love Won't Let You Down' and in any other era the song would have been the big hit in the U.K. it was in Japan at the time I was based there. Living in Tokyo between 1997 & 2004 it was easy to be under the misapprehension that Swin...

Apologies for the short notice but I've only just discovered this 'Back To Bacharach' show on tonight (Friday the 26th) at the Richmond Theatre, West London. http://m.atgtickets.com/shows/back-to-bacharach/richmond-theatre/ I could have gone as Richmond is only 20 minutes from me but even though I'...

I see that singer/actress Lauren Samuels has her own (with guests) 90th birthday tribute to Bacharach at Crazy Coqs, Zedel Brasserie, London on the 12th and 13th of May. https://www.brasseriezedel.com/live-at-zedel/lauren-samuels-may-2018 I've been there a couple of times to see the brilliant Barb ...

They actually do have a new album out now in 2018 entitled 'Almost Persuaded' which is self released and a PledgeMusic project. More on that when I get hold of a copy. Yes, I also came to 'Where Our Love Grows' much later than I should have done given its reputation. With the instrumental tracks and...

Re Snow White, are the songs that bad to be kept under wraps for over twenty years? If Bacharach won't touch them with a barge pole, why hasn't BA Robertson, once a successful recording artist in his own right, cut them or is their association with a failed project and the resulting falling out with...

Blue, you can hardly be accused of "banging on" about something I can't remember being mentioned before in the seven years I've been parking my bike on this forum.

Hadn't heard of Cousteau till today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uQJ2uFhurM This wouldn't be the first time a record by a British act featuring a prominent repeated melodic phrase on the flugelhorn or trumpet got people talking about Burt. When Brit Pop was at its height in the mid-90s Blur ha...

Sara, I believe the 'Shapes and Patterns' album was released about the time they did some concerts in the UK with Bacharach in '97. Having made that connection I hope that he's got to hear some of the beautiful stuff they've released since that he more than anyone did so much to inspire, like the in...

I couldn't agree more. Has Bacharach ever featured any of these songs in concert? I certainly can't remember any in the several I've attended in recent years.

We all know that Swing Out Sister have been inspired by most of the best writers but they very rarely cover them. 'Wives and Lovers' at the Royal Albert Hall when they supported Bacharach is one exception and another is Laura Nyro's 'Stoned Soul Picnic', which I believe has been part of their live ...

Thanks Sara, I'd forgotten what a beautiful chord progression 'Deja Vu' had. Talking of which, In the space of just a few short years Paul Weller of the Jam had gone from writing three chord thrashes to the gorgeous 'The Paris Match' which has the kind of sophisticated harmonic sequence Bacharach or...

Martyn and Martin, thanks for the videos of which only 'Kaleidoscope Affair' wasn't new to me. The sad irony is that by the time Swing Out Sister's 'Kaleidoscope World' was released in '89 it had already been many years since either Bacharach or Jimmy Webb had written anything that remotely resembl...

I remember back in the late 90s Swing Out Sister supported Bacharach at the Royal Albert Hall, something that singer Corinne Drewery described in a radio interview from a few years back as "inspirational". She also said something to the effect that being introduced to him was that rare occ...