The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

A summer party or barbecue would be unthinkable without the hits of the Beach Boys and I'll always associate their music with good times, cue a personal favourite written by Brian Wilson and brother Carl.

Joanne And The Streamliners 'Dance Mamma, Dance Pappa, Dance' has finally turned up on YouTube. Alas, I've just found out that almost exactly a year to the day after this topic was started in August 2022 that the singer Rosemary Squires, the 'Joanne' on the record, passed away at the age of 94. http...

Back in the day when Jimmy Webb's official website had a public forum I remember the Revelation album being discussed at length and with videos of several of its tracks being posted. However, after a search on YouTube I see that apart from 'This Is Your Life' the only other track now available is 'P...

Blue, I like the instrumental break in the middle of that track. Here's the Crocker Bank television commercial from 1970 featuring lyricist Paul Williams singing part of the newly written 'We've Only Just Begun' which led to Richard Carpenter enquiring as to whether it was a complete song. The rest ...

blueonblue wrote: ↑Sun May 25, 2025 7:03 am Little known cover version by Herb Alpert....nice chord change.
R.I.P. Roger Nichols....Genius songwriter.

'blue'

Listening to Herb Alpert's version made me want to hear the original again.

I've only just found out that the composer and arranger Roger Nichols died a week ago at the age of eighty-four. He's probably best remembered for composing songs that went on to be hits for The Carpenters, like 'We've Only Just Begun', 'Rainy Days And Mondays' and 'I Won't Last A Day Without You'. ...

There's a new tribute show about to hit the stage and this one will feature John Pagano, among others:

https://playbill.com/article/burt-bacha ... sentations

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/