The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Singer Jane Morgan was the first female artist to have a Top 40 hit in the US with a Bacharach song and congratulations are in order as today is her 101st birthday. It must be the way the melody and chord progression take an unconventional turning in 'With Open Arms' that really caught my ear back i...

Hank, Tori Holub sang Close To You in the show and I see that she's been getting some very good notices. Among the other songs she performs is this personal favourite. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMphEFoCOK0&pp=ygUYVG9yaSBIb2x1YiBBcmUgWW91IFRoZXJl From the many video clips I've seen of the sh...

Re the new to CD duet, I've recently discovered that Dionne Warwick is also credited as the producer of the recording by Leslie Uggams of 'Try To See It My Way' for which she supplied the second voice. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iDm7iT3jXvA&pp=ygUibGVzbGllIHVnZ2FtcyB0cnkgdG8gc2VlIGl0IG15IHdhe...

Checking the setlist for the LA show published in setlist.fm it corroborated the list in the Variety review and so it seems that the inclusion of 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' wasn't an error and it was indeed performed in the show. The inclusion of a non-Bacharach song in a tribute show to th...

Here's a review of the show in LA and it's surprising just how many songs Todd Rundgren gets to perform, including two or three I just wouldn't have expected. https://variety.com/2025/music/concert-reviews/burt-bacharach-songbook-tribute-tour-review-todd-rundgren-1236347936/ Paul, thanks for postin...

Here's a review of the show in LA and it's surprising just how many songs Todd Rundgren gets to perform, including two or three I just wouldn't have expected.
https://variety.com/2025/music/concert- ... 236347936/

'Close To You' as written by Jay Livingston, Al Hoffman and Carl Lampl and first recorded in 1943 by Frank Sinatra is given the bossa nova treatment in Brenda Lee's recording from 1967.

Todd Rundgren interviewed by Variety about the Bacharach tribute tour:

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/tod ... 236344117/

The news of Jerry Butler's death last week at the age of 85 seems to have flown under the radar and I've only just found out via the Secondhand Songs website. The significance of his classic original hit version of Make It Easy On Yourself in 1962 can't be overestimated because it featured an arrang...

I think it's a bit unfair to refer to a record that reached No.13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 as a "non-hit", although 'Making Love' did nothing in the UK and in fact I don't even remember hearing it played on the radio. With her beautiful intonation and seemingly perfect pitch it's not su...

The Henry Mancini-esque 'Lisa' has always been a bit of an anomaly in Bacharach's recorded output and maybe that accounts for the dearth of cover versions. Here's one of only two recordings of the song other than Burt's and it's a jazzy instrumental interpretation. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IekJ...

Make what you will of this extract from an interview JW gave earlier this week. As an incurably grumpy old man who has read this too many times over the past thirty- how-many-years now? , I just groaned: Part of what may come out in the coming year for Webb is new music and a sequel to “The Cake an...

Here's a slightly lengthier version of the video promo by Todd Rundgren that was previously posted.

Hearing the news that Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul And Mary fame had passed away a few days ago reminded me that he was the featured vocalist on 'The Young Grow Younger Every Day' from Bacharach's 'Futures' album. Although the song contains one killer Bacharahian chord change in the verses I've alway...

It's curious but the same enquiry with almost identical wording was posted on here several years ago by someone called teejay and of course the response is the same now as it was then. Burt sang on only eight tracks across his nine studio albums released between 1965 and 2005, so not nearly enough f...