In short, just how did Stephanie Mills inherit that trove of B/D songs?
She was young, cute, and a hit in The Wiz but it took more than youth, cuteness, and popularity to attract Burt`s and/or Hal`s serious attention.
Did I sleep through this story ?
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- Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:34 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Another Angle on Steve`s Resurrected Subject
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2577
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Jimmy Webb
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19289
Re: Jimmy Webb
"Sunshower" is my favorite Webb-written-and-produced-for-someone-else album. As I never tire of iterating on another forum, his coda for This Is Your Life is perhaps my favorite piece of Webb music. As I`ve also mentioned before here, no one should avoid Webb`s own albums simply because hi...
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:18 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: bacharach/sater collaborations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4776
Re: bacharach/sater collaborations
If memory serves (and mine often doesn`t), Stephanie Mills reported that it was Hal who pretty much produced For the First Time and was, in fact, in the studio (unlike Burt).
The album credits reverse the usual "produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David" for this one project.
The album credits reverse the usual "produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David" for this one project.
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:26 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: bacharach/sater collaborations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4776
Re: bacharach/sater collaborations
Steve, it wasn`t your appreciation of those two songs that prompted me, rather my own lack of appreciation for a whole slew of recent material that has struck me as sub-par. But you `ve resurrected an interesting subject: Whence those Bacharach/David songs for the Stephanie Mills album released in `...
- Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:58 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: bacharach/sater collaborations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4776
Re: bacharach/sater collaborations
Okay, having (finally!) restored my computer after a crash, I`ve listened to the above-cited compositions. Sadly, although I know where and why I`m supposed to be loving them, I`m not. The familiar arranging flourishes are all there, and the melody lifts (sort of) where it should, but I`m still miss...
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:23 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: bacharach/sater collaborations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4776
Re: bacharach/sater collaborations
I`m going to have to be more vigilant regarding new song links. As of now (6:15 pm est, Tuesday), Something That Was Beautiful has been denuded of its audio in all three versions on You Tube.
Just Walk Away elicited re-hab anthems which I doubted were renditions of the song alluded to here.
Just Walk Away elicited re-hab anthems which I doubted were renditions of the song alluded to here.
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 10:59 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Gershwin Prize
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5461
Re: Gershwin Prize
With entertainment awards proliferating like bacteria in a Petri dish, I don`t see how it`s possible to take any of them seriously. Who honestly cares to whom these statuettes, plaques, sheepskins, or whatever are bestowed? I doubt that Burt is losing any sleep over not being asked to stand next to ...
- Wed May 12, 2010 2:14 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Happy Birthday Burt......
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6615
Re: Happy Birthday Burt......
I can`t improve on the above, I just wanted to contribute my best wishes to the man who rescued popular music when it was all but gangrenous. Who knew there was more to be done and then some? Only Burt!
- Mon May 10, 2010 8:06 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: the Lost Documentary
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2455
Re: the Lost Documentary
Thanks, Roberto!
Too bad the movie wasn`t as good as its promo.
Still, it`s too bad and all too instructive that one crummy movie could not only split up Burt, Hal, and Dionne but end Ross Hunter`s career as well.
Too bad the movie wasn`t as good as its promo.
Still, it`s too bad and all too instructive that one crummy movie could not only split up Burt, Hal, and Dionne but end Ross Hunter`s career as well.
- Mon May 10, 2010 11:52 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: the Lost Documentary
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2455
Re: the Lost Documentary
Um...Would you care to summarize this? I`m in the US where it was "...removed..."
- Tue May 04, 2010 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: "Seconds"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1740
"Seconds"
It just occurred to me that we`ve overlooked the song I believe written for the never produced movie version of PP.Along with "You`ve Got It All Wrong", the inclusion of "Seconds" would at least have made for a historically interesting production
- Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:08 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: "With a Smile"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3656
Re: "With a Smile"
This is great! I haven`t heard anything this good from Burt since, well, at least the early `90s. I`m afraid I`ve never warmed to the more recent material. None of it has what this has, whatever that is. It sounds as if it could have been on an old Scepter album for Dionne; really that fresh and inv...
- Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:13 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Promises `63
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3464
Promises `63
I noticed the other day that the poster outside the theater described "PP" as set in "Manhattan in the `60s!" Well, there were the sixties `60s (in which the original musical was set), and the fifties `60s (in which "The Apartment" was set). Since the current production...
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:08 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Just Wondering (Trivia)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13535
Re: Just Wondering (Trivia)
I`m too lazy to dig out the recordings, but off the top of my head I think "I Might Frighten Her Away "(ST version) and "Papier Mache" are piano - free arrangements and I suspect there are more.
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:13 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: "Raindrops" Redux
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7111
Re: "Raindrops" Redux
Partial correction: I seem to recallthat Andy`s Raindrops album was entitled Bridge Over Troubled Water overseas (or maybe vice-versa0. Also,on his "Alone Again,Naturally" lp, he did a (THE?) cover of "If I Could Go Back". I also seemto recall that this was before the Lost Horizo...