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"DOWNTOWN"

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:43 pm
by blueonblue
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Miss Petula Clark and Mr Tony Hatch !!!!


"blue"

Great

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:08 am
by Roberto Pinardi





Great
Bye
ciao

Bob :wink:

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:22 pm
by Andrew
Here's a funny one - I'll never fall in love again...Mr Costello will have to watch his back!



Enjoy
Andrew

Brasil

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:22 am
by Roberto Pinardi


W Brasil

bye

Bob

Jackie !!!

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:30 am
by blueonblue
Very rare "clip" of Jackie DeShannon singing one of Bacharach
and David's lesser known songs...........hope you enjoy it !!!





"blue"

Hi

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:56 pm
by Roberto Pinardi

Me Japanese Boy (I Love You)

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:16 pm
by An Enormous BB Fan
For those of you who have never heard this Burt/Hal creation, here it is. While the lyric wouldn't fly in this day and age, I do think the music is absolutely wonderful -- and very catchy, too.



Tell me what you think.

Re: Me Japanese Boy (I Love You)

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:14 am
by hereiam
An Enormous BB Fan wrote:For those of you who have never heard this Burt/Hal creation, here it is. While the lyric wouldn't fly in this day and age, I do think the music is absolutely wonderful -- and very catchy, too.



Tell me what you think.

Wow. It's really a wonderful gem . Thanks
I am a chinese but I still find this music for a Japanese cartoon
wonderful.

It's catchy and "easy listening" (should be an early
BB song), melody in the same vein as Blue on Blue
Burt's genius really crossed many turfs



Everybody's Out of Town

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:12 am
by An Enormous BB Fan
So glad you enjoyed the above song, hereiam.

For those of you too young to remember this Burt/Hal creation, I'm please to supply this link for your listening pleasure. I love this song so much. I remember being so thrilled when I got the sheet music for it and I certainly remember the fun I had in learning it. There's a diminished chord in the song that is unbelievably placed that I can't believe Burt's genius in coming up with just that. The cover of the sheet music is great too. B.J. is in Times Square and it's totally empty. Hal, once again, wrote a lyric here that is pure "Hal David", IMHO. No one can write about quotidian things so lyrically as Hal can, IMHO.

If I recall, this was B.J.'s follow-up song to his monster hit, "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head". For my money, next to Dionne, no one had a greater voice to listen to singing Burt's songs. It's funny how certain voices lend themselves to certain composers than other voices. I think Dionne and B.J. Thomas's voice were made for Burt's music.

Hope you like it.



Let me know what you think.

Re: Everybody's Out of Town

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:39 pm
by hereiam
An Enormous BB Fan wrote: I remember being so thrilled when I got the sheet music for it and I certainly remember the fun I had in learning it. There's a diminished chord in the song that is unbelievably placed that I can't believe Burt's genius in coming up with just that.
If I recall, this was B.J.'s follow-up song to his monster hit, "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head". For my money, next to Dionne, no one had a greater voice to listen to singing Burt's songs. It's funny how certain voices lend themselves to certain composers than other voices. I think Dionne and B.J. Thomas's voice were made for Burt's music.

Hope you like it.



Let me know what you think.

Thanks for sharing, Blueonblue. Yes, I have often heard of the
"diminished chord" that BB used in his songs (The other 2 composers who used something like this "unexpected chord" are from France,
Michel Legrand and Francis Lai ). This adds such charm to the melody.

As for "Everybody's Out of Town", at the time it was released, it was not a bad song , but paled when compared with another Bacharach song for BJ called "Long Ago Tomorrow". I like the latter more as my tastes in music are more inclined to slow ballads which I think BB is better in writing.

BB has said one of his influences is Claude Debussy. Here's an electronic version of one of his masterpieces "Arabsbeque" with stunning visual
effected video (a man walking into Van Gogh's paintings) that I've
placed on Youtube:


Let me know what you think of it :-)









Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:13 am
by An Enormous BB Fan
Great video with great music, thanks.

p.s. I also love Long Ago, Tomorrow. Another great song.

Burt & Dionne

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:13 am
by Roberto Pinardi


ciao
Bob

...and Burt

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:17 am
by Roberto Pinardi



:wink:

Bob

Jerry Orbach: She Likes Basketball

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:04 am
by Rio
Jerry Orbach: She Likes Basketball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Aq9r9blzA

Dionne Warwick Sings Tony Hatch

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:56 am
by Dennis Webb
This is from 1975 and I just now heard it for the first time: