The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Talking of record label cock-ups, I remember back in the late 80s Connoisseur releasing a double album tribute to Bacharach and David as part of their songbook series which omitted Dionne Warwick's 'Walk On By' in favour of Leroy Van Dyke's recording of a completely different song which just happen...

This is a pretty trivial bit of information regarding an ancient Bacharach obscurity, but I don't see this information in the forum and thought it worth sharing for the completists out there. For Mel Tormé's recording "These Desperate Hours", released on the 1999 Rhino CD Mel Torme At The ...

Thanks for posting. Rick's been getting some great interviews over the past few years, and this is another coup for his channel. His videos analyzing Jim Croce's "Operator" and Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" were great--those songs were both part of the audio wall...

That's a good point...Bacharach said he didn't particularly enjoy the process, so my alternate reality is constrained by that pretty important fact :). From his perspective in, say, 1970, he'd had number one hits in each of the past two years, he was getting network television specials, film score c...

This was a great discussion that I just stumbled on, and I'll add a couple of minor points. Both Sondheim and Bacharach wrote television musical's for the Stage '67 television show, and they appeared three weeks apart in the fall of 1966--Sondheim's "Evening Primrose" aired in November, an...

Here's audio of the sheet music of the 1963 Bacharach-David tune "Move Over and Make Room for Me": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd2kGRlueaU It's a robot playing the music, so don't expect much in terms of performance, but you can hear the bones of a tune that apparently was never record...

Regarding the basic form and time signatures, for what its worth, I found this leadsheet that shows how they were notated in the Hansen "Bacharach & David's Greatest Hits" collection from the early 1970s:

https://musescore.com/user/44923592/scores/11546479

There is a very basic sheet music version in this book:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/Bacharac ... c/74811011

Basically just the melody and chord names.

As for the three discs of early stuff, I should imagine that most if not all of the tracks have featured on previous 'Early Bacharach' compilations. That's correct, and specifically, on three single-disc collections put out by the same company several years back. The new set largely reproduces thes...

I was never a huge Faith No More fan, but they did a pretty reverent cover of "This Guy's in Love with You," too, so they were clearly big fans. (They also did nice covers of "Theme from Midnight Cowboy" and "I Started a Joke.") I seem to recall first hearing Jim O'Rou...

You might also like to check out this 5 disc set....it contains all of Burt's A&M albums and more, the remastered sound quality is a "revelation" ! Pricey but precious. Agree! I do have that music and was just thinking yesterday about going through the solo albums song by song to figu...

And let's not forget Ed also did a vocal version of "She's Gone Away," one of my favorites from Make It Easy on Yourself . RIP Ed. Mark, did you ever hear the version of "She's Gone Away" by Mike Patton on the 1997 Tzadik Records "Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach" al...

Wow. I've never seen that Hansen collection before, but that's a pretty impressive collection of songs. I just got my copy of the Hansen book ("Bacharach & David Greatest Hits") in the mail yesterday. It's interesting. At minimum, you get fakebook quality sheet music for a lot of obsc...

Jim, are you familiar with "The Music of Burt Bacharach," the four (and later five) disc set put out by the Burt Bacharach Music Group? Hi Mark, No, I had no idea that set existed. I see on Discogs that a 4-disc version of it came out in 1993, and a 5-disc version was put out in 2000: htt...

Being, like most of us on this forum, a lifelong admirer of Burt, there has always been one track that nobody seems to have, and is never mentioned. It is a single by Sylvaine Clair on Polydor 247008 (1970). Can anybody throw any light on this rarity? Are you sure about the catalog number 247008? S...