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- Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:29 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Willie Tee - "Reach Out for Me" (1970)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2457
Re: Willie Tee - "Reach Out for Me" (1970)
Slightly altering or adding a few grace notes to Bacharach's melodies is fine even if it sometimes can grate but in my opinion his chord progressions should be sacrosanct. Because the majority of his songs are full of jazzy extended chords I've noticed a tendency among some pop, rock and R&B art...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Willie Tee - "Reach Out for Me" (1970)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2457
Re: Willie Tee - "Reach Out for Me" (1970)
While songs with a similar message (Reach Out And I'll Be There & Bridge Over Troubled Water) have gone on to become immortal classics, Reach Out For Me has never quite attained the same status. The gospel influenced recording by The Sweet Inspirations from the late-60s featuring Cissy Houston o...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 2:33 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: The Desperate Hours / These Desperate Hours
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2151
Re: The Desperate Hours / These Desperate Hours
I think it's fair to say that neither song sounds particularly like a Bacharach composition, but then again the same could probably be said of 90% of his pre-1962 output. Talking of record label cock-ups, I remember back in the late 80s Connoisseur releasing a double album tribute to Bacharach and D...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:49 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Bacharach/Sondheim connection
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18542
Re: Bacharach/Sondheim connection
From what I've read Hal David would have jumped at the chance of working on another stage musical after Promises, Promises, but not Bacharach as the experience not only took its toll on his physical health it also disillusioned him having to relinquish so much control of his music. In the light of a...
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 11:59 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
- Replies: 1308
- Views: 1260127
Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Anyone hearing the track 'Up And Down' by Judy Singh in 1970 would have been forgiven for thinking it might have been composed by Bacharach. It's credited words and music to David Foster but apparently it's NOT the famed producer/composer of the same name as it's a couple of years before he started ...
- Mon May 29, 2023 3:34 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Ed Ames 1927-2023
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3476
Ed Ames 1927-2023
Ed Ames's Bacharach connections go back to the mid-50s when he was part of the singing group The Ames Brothers and Burt was their MD. The singer and actor who has died aged 95 went on to record two albums of Bacharach and David material in the early 70s, including what remains to this day the only v...
- Mon May 22, 2023 7:56 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
- Replies: 1308
- Views: 1260127
Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
The Swinging Blue Jeans' version of 'Don't Make Me Over' was one of three UK hits that so-called Mersey Beat groups had with Bacharach & David songs in the mid-60s, the other two were by a group actually called The Merseybeats and they were 'Wishing And Hoping' and 'It's Love That Really Counts'...
- Wed May 10, 2023 8:09 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Upcoming Cherry Red 4 CD set release
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3878
Re: Upcoming Cherry Red 4 CD set release
While Bacharach would have been very gratified that Frankie Vaughan's version of 'Tower Of Strength' gave him his third UK no.1, he was reported as saying that he thought the tempo was too brisk. That was a common complaint from Burt over the years so did he ever think that the tempo had been too sl...
- Sat May 06, 2023 3:45 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Upcoming Cherry Red 4 CD set release
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3878
Re: Upcoming Cherry Red 4 CD set release
There can't be many compilations that feature not only the likes of 'Peggy's In The Pantry', 'Underneath The Overpass' and 'Three Wheels On My Wagon', but also works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Henry Cowell! As for the three discs of early stuff, I should imagine that most if not all of the...
- Sun Apr 30, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Sheet Music for ALL of Bacharach's Songs?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3555
Re: Sheet Music for ALL of Bacharach's Songs?
A songbook was publishsed in 1973 under the title Bacharach & David Greatest Hits which contained no less than 132 songs, so inevitably it features a lot of lesser known material. Of the two songs you mentioned only 'The Wine Is Young' is included. From my experience of hunting down books on the...
- Sat Apr 08, 2023 9:25 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Discography update
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2838
Re: Discography update
Davide, the sheer scale of the amount of unpublished and unrecorded material is pretty mind-blowing. A possible addition to the discography because it's a rarely covered Bacharach and David gem is Jackie Trent and Tony Hatch's version of 'Try To See It My Way'. This was released in the UK and Austra...
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 4:09 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Carole King article and other tributes to Bacharach
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11243
Re: Carole King article and other tributes to Bacharach
Also taken from the latest edition of Mojo, here's Jimmy Webb once again talking brilliantly about Burt: "When I heard Walk On By the first time, it was probably an 8.5 or 9 on the tectonic scale. In the songwriting world, everybody's ears perked up at the same time. It was like, 'Holy moly, wh...
- Mon Mar 27, 2023 1:29 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Carole King article and other tributes to Bacharach
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11243
Re: Carole King article and other tributes to Bacharach
Jackie DeShannon talking about Burt in the latest edition of Mojo: "Burt had all these sophisticated melodies, then he'd insert these chord changes with a rootsy, gospel feel. Think of Message To Martha or Reach Out For Me. Burt was in touch with the soul, and that brought listeners in. He tour...
- Sat Mar 25, 2023 8:06 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Carole King article and other tributes to Bacharach
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11243
Re: Carole King article and other tributes to Bacharach
Given how melodic and harmonically rich the songs of The Bee Gees often are, it comes as no surprise to me that Barry Gibb is a huge Bacharach fan, and this tribute is taken from the latest edition of Mojo. "He was the reason I started writing songs" Barry Gibb on his lifelong love of Burt...
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 6:23 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Steve Allen's Music Room in 1983 with Burt, Carole & Tony Newley
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4033
Re: Steve Allen's Music Room in 1983 with Burt, Carole & Tony Newley
When Steve Allen brought out two albums recorded by Carole... why no mention of 'Sometimes Late At Night' the album she recorded with Burt in 1981? 'blue' Yes and with Burt & Carole both sat there seemingly too polite to mention its absence. As for 'The Dancing Fool', the mystery of whether or ...