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Nancy Sinatra, "This Girl's In Love With You" from "The Ed Sullivan Show":

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If me or anyone else on here compiles a list of instrumental albums dedicated exclusively to the music of Burt Bacharach to compliment the one featuring vocalists we're going to have to take into account jazz guitarist Grant Green Jr's just released 'Thank You Mr Bacharach'. Here he is with his fellow musicians negotiating some tricky time changes with aplomb:

[An Enormous BB Fan]

This is SOOOOO good!!

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A song for today....


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A different take on a Bacharach/David classic......




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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', the latter one of only four instances that I'm aware of a Bacharach song being a hit in the UK without ever reaching the US Hot 100 for any artist, although The Shirelles did come very close.

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Here are The Merseybeats with Dusty from the TV Special 'The Bacharach Sound' from 1965....


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[Sara D]

When I think of The Merseybeats I remember my elder sister playing their hit 45 'I Think Of You' on her pink Dansette record player several times a day. Watching them lip-syncing and miming to the record on TV in 1964 takes me back to the time when pop groups smiled inanely at the camera no matter how sad the song and then gave a little bow at the record's conclusion. I see that it was written by Peter Lee Stirling. No, me neither.

[harrymcc]

If the April 1964 date is correct, this aired the month I was born.