The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Of all the tributes to Bacharach from fellow songwriters that I've read Jimmy Webb's is by far the most in-depth and personal. I don't know about everybody else on here but I think I must have read more on the net about Bacharach in the last ten days than I have in the past twenty-five years, the sh...

This article appeared in The Washington Post last weekend. I can't recall Carole King ever having commented publicly on Bacharach's music before, so it makes for an interesting read.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... ngwriting/

As deeply saddened as we all must feel right now, I'm sure we will continue to discuss and celebrate his unparalleled musical legacy.

While Jackie DeShannon's recording of 'What The World Needs Now Is Love' wasn't a surprise as one of Steven Spielberg's choices, Gene Pitney's 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' most definitely was. Whenever I hear the likes of Spielberg being interviewed I'm reminded of the Ian Dury song, 'There Ai...

Blair, admittedly it's now quite a long time ago and I don't know whether she's spoken publicly on the subject at any other time but I remember Carole Bayer Sager's comments for BBC radio regarding Bacharach's work with Elvis Costello as being very much pro rather than con. In fact the general tone ...

After Bacharach's music became fashionable again in the mid-90s the BBC broadcast several radio profiles or documentaries over the following ten to twelve years of which I recall 'The Look Of Love - The Burt Bacharach Story' from February 2004 as probably being the best. Outside of Tony Banks statin...

I must admit I was surprised when I first heard that plans were underway to produce a musical based on the songs of the Painted From Memory album, simply because it's difficult to imagine a successful Broadway show consisting almost entirely of ballads without any of the variety and the light and sh...

I think the live rendition of 'In The Darkest Place' featuring just Elvis Costello on acoustic guitar and Steve Nieve on piano is pretty special and the song's beautiful coda which has Bacharach's stamp as a composer all over it is particularly effective in this version. https://m.youtube.com/watch?...

I recall hearing Bacharach utter the words, "It's so easy..... there's nothing to it", to explain his optimistic outlook at the start of his career about writing songs in order to become hits, only to be disillusioned very quickly as he discovered how tough it was. I thought he said it in ...

blue, the videos posted on YouTube so far are tracks taken from CD 3 which is made up almost entirely of live renditions of the songs from the Painted From Memory album and CD 4, the disc containing EC's versions of several of Bacharach's 60s classics. Of course it's the second CD entitled 'Taken Fr...

For me the most intriguing of all the previously unreleased stuff detailed in the press release is 'Lie Back And Think Of England', the song written for the proposed Austin Powers musical and featuring Bacharach singing alone at the piano. I'm also looking forward to hearing the additional songs the...

Djalma Junior wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:27 pm Unfortunately, another musical talent leaves us.
The song "Wanting Things" had a beautiful performance by "The Pointer Sisters".

Djalma, I'd forgotten just how exceptional lead singer June Pointer's performance is of this song.

The Pointer Sisters were the first act to record songs by Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager and Anita Pointer, who sadly passed away on New Year's Eve, sang lead on 'The Love Too Good To Last'. Bacharach also arranged the horns and the strings on this track.

The article linked below states unequivocally that Burt is definitely NOT scheduled to perform at this event. I actually first saw the piece a few days before this thread was started and because it makes it pretty clear that Bacharach is only doing a spot of presenting I didn't think it was worth al...

I sincerely hope that Elvis Costello sends a special advance copy of this 4-album box set to Bob Dylan as a Christmas present.