The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

It's a great shame Burt and Hal never got the honour, but it is what it is I guess. That reminds me of the time the board of the Pulitzer prize ignored the jury recommendation to give the prize to Duke Ellington and just awarded no music prize that year. It says a lot more about the nature of these...

Regarding sheet music for obscurities, some of the notable early songs with lyricists other than Hal David are hard to find, songs like "Baby It's You", "Tower of Strength", and Mexican Divorce". Bacharach & David's songs published by Arch in 1962-1963 are rare, with the...

I've been doing some research on Bacharach sheet music, and have found the songbooks below so far. A link at the bottom goes to a Google doc with all the titles for each book: Bacharach & David greatest hits [151 songs] Hansen, 197? https://www.worldcat.org/title/74811011 Bacharach & David I...

I've done a lot of A/B comparisons through headphones of various Bacharach compilations (CD sources), and I've run them through a dynamic range analyzer. In terms of both clarity (meaning tape sources that have minimal postproduction like reverb, sources that sound clear and have both solid bass and...

Thanks, I never realized this album was mastered in this manner. I used Audacity to invert a channel on each of the tracks and I'm going to give it a spin!

Thanks for posting this. I spent many an hour of my youth listening to The Smiths. Morrissey is a great singer, and does the vocal justice here. Like kd lang, another genius singer, he's spent long, long stretches of his career singing rather forgettable material (from a musical perspective--the lyr...