The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

My point (admittedly poorly expressed) was that this doesn`t pass the smell test. It is inconceivable to me that Burt would commit himself to another major stage musical when Some Lovers hasn`t even hit midtown and, let`s be honest, may not regardless of its virtues. Nor can I envision (or "en-...

This whole thing confuses me. Are Burt and "Elvis" only now going to collaborate again ...for this piece of trivia? Or is this "comedy" somehow going to incorporate their earlier songs (at least as unlikely). I`m looking forward to the official denial that any of this will happen.

Ron, when I try to imagine that, I imagine how much more challenging and beautiful a song Burt would have written for her. Seldom since the catastrophe of `73 has Burt really been moved to write to his full ability. After all, who`s going to sing it? Will we ever again hear anything more stunning th...

I`m still hoping to hear something that will blow me away like the Painted From Memory material did. So far, "Some Lovers" and "Welcome to My World" are pretty good, "This Christmas" is so-so, and "Every Other Hour" and "Just Walk Away" don`t work at...

I`m sorry, but "Come In Ogni Ora" is a lazy bore, was not written for the show, and should be stricken now. It makes no more sense than the insertion of "I Say a Little Prayer" into "Promises..." I still think Some Lovers can be a hit, `though, but only if the score alb...

Passing over the question of how these two characters of (at best) modest means can afford a room at the Plaza, I wonder how commercial a tragic, slow-motion break-up will seem. I once read a column in which a writer speculated how much more cynically apposite "Promises..." would have been...

...from San Diego is long. I`m not sure (having not been in California for roughly forty years) that there`s even a single inter-state route. I do know that "Some Lovers", regardless of preview notices, has a rough time ahead so I`m offering the following suggestions: 1. Record and release...

I, too, hope that this is a huge success. I like the songs I have heard to date - both of them. If all 23 or so have made it into the show, it seems like more of an opera or oratorio than a standard musical, `though and I worry. Broadway is a very different animal now than forty years ago and two ne...

I believe Burt played a few bars of "Didn`t We' behind Richard Harris on the ABC Shangri-La special, but I can`t think of another instance off-hand.

Those are among my favorites, as is this:

Now, the question is: Are they going to record this score now or wait until after the Broadway premiere?

B to B: I had never heard the "Atlantic Hypothesis" before. Is it that the overwhelming cachet of hipness the label once exuded made the non-Atlantic-signed Dionne an untouchable? Or did the long arm of Ahmet Ertegun shunt her aside? Either way, I still don`t believe election to this or an...

I suspect/hope he feels the way most did who, without reading candidate Obama`s speeches, voted for him with such naive enthusiasm.( It was with similar hope that I voted for McGovern in `72 but obviously with different results). In `08 I voted for Ralph Nader and so have been able to watch this sor...

My problem with this is identical to the objection I had to Laura Nyro`s version of Be Aware. In each instance the singer improvised a new melody. In Ry`s case, I suspect, because he couldn`t sing the original; in Laura`s because, well, that was Laura (It was also a demo. It`s possible, although unl...

Thanks, Marcel; I love this woman.
Here`s an interview she herself posted this week. It was conducted just before her performance at S. O. B.`s not long ago:
http://nikkijeanmusic.com/post/12330899340
(No, I still don`t know her).