I`ve been waiting for this.
I hesitated to post what I did, but the situation struck me as being analogous to someone crashing a graduate seminar and sounding off without having heard or read any of the other participants. Asking someone to do a little homework isn`t asking a lot.
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- Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:34 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Rare Bacharach covers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3386
- Tue Sep 20, 2022 11:25 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Rare Bacharach covers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3386
Re: Rare Bacharach covers
Geoff, At the risk of seeming to be a nag, I respectfully request that you read the available contributions to this forum made over the past couple of decades. If you take the time to do that, you will find that your examples of everything have been cited before and that all of your topics - and man...
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 5:22 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
- Replies: 271
- Views: 545654
Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Come on, it`s not a matter of my approval. It`s just my opinion. I never said no one was influenced by Bacharach. It just struck me that most of the examples were either well-known or a real stretch. It was when I saw the 416,000 entries that the whole thing had become irrelevant. If you and others ...
- Sun Aug 28, 2022 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
- Replies: 271
- Views: 545654
Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Fair enough...but it doesn`t change my mind.
- Sun Aug 28, 2022 10:20 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
- Replies: 271
- Views: 545654
Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Guys, if 416,000 songs "sounded like" Bacharach, there would be nothing unique about his compositions. A "leap" and a couple of odd intervals do not a Bacharach song make.
This is an irrelevant topic and I really wish it could be taken down.
This is an irrelevant topic and I really wish it could be taken down.
- Fri Aug 26, 2022 4:16 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Another Rare Laura Nyro Clip
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15788
Re: Another Rare Laura Nyro Clip
It was "Timer."
- Sun Aug 21, 2022 8:21 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Who is Bacharach's second best writing partner?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5217
Re: Who is Bacharach's second best writing partner?
I think it`s very much up for debate (however heretical) that Hal was Burt`s best lyricist - albeit indisputably his most commercially successful. I`ve always thought it regrettable that Burt never had a partner with the sophistication of a Larry Hart or a Cole Porter. I understand that these men we...
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: R. I. P. Lamont Dozier
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2521
Re: R. I. P. Lamont Dozier
Here`s one many missed, appearing on the criminally overlooked Nikki Jean album:
(And, whatever became of her?)
(And, whatever became of her?)
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 11:00 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: R. I. P. Lamont Dozier
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2521
- Wed Aug 03, 2022 2:38 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Mystery Song, Mystery Writers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2589
Re: Mystery Song, Mystery Writers
THANK YOU111
- Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:18 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt Recording on Dreamworks Records?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1795
Burt Recording on Dreamworks Records?
It`s deep in this obit of Mo Ostin (worth reading in its own right for us geezers of a certain era), but Burt is reported as having signed with them. Well into my senior years, I may be overlooking the obvious - I`ve done that a lot lately - but I can`t come up with anything. What`s right in front o...
- Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:38 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Mystery Song, Mystery Writers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2589
Mystery Song, Mystery Writers
This has nothing to do with Burt but is of similar melodic invention. The credits are to three names who are not known to me or known to have written (in any combination or singly) another song.
Anyone have a clue?
Anyone have a clue?
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:42 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: "I Never Cry"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2586
Re: "I Never Cry"
I was pretty sure that Burt didn`t collaborate on the song (It`s not listed in "Serene Dominic"`s book, anyway). But I also know that Todd Rundgren, for one, would often add to - or flat-out write - a song without taking a credit for someone he was producing. Since Burt and Vince hung out ...
- Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:16 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: "I Never Cry"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2586
"I Never Cry"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AUkUfH29yA Tell me Burt didn`t write the music to this chorus. I`ve only recently been reminded of this song because it was the closing theme to a dark comedy called `God Bless America.` The song is from 73 when Vince/"Alice" (whose band I was too old to be...
- Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:43 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt in Concert at the Adler Theatre 1986
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2956
Re: Burt in Concert at the Adler Theatre 1986
I last saw Burt in 2005 and he was still employing the same arrangements he had been using since the mid-sixties. If he ever changed them, I`d like to hear examples.