The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Coming June 27 from SoulMusic Records, Cherry Red Records, and Second Disc Records: Dionne Warwick's MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF: THE SCEPTER RECORDINGS 1962-1971 is a new 12CD collection with 280 tracks including every one of Dionne's Scepter albums (in stereo) and singles plus over 60 bonus tracks i...

I'd forgotten how haunting the guitar riff is in Blue Guitar, an early Bacharach & David obscurity and the A-side of Richard Chamberlain's original recording of Close To You. I say 'obscurity' but I see that it peaked just outside Billboard's Top 40 in 1963. I see also that it features a Bachar...

R.I.P. Richard Chamberlain....

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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 t...

Well, the clips indicate that everyone acquitted themselves well enough (although I still think Todd should hang it up), but a program "deep in the catalog" it certainly wasn`t. Maybe it was revelatory for newcomers to Burt`s music, but for the rest of us, I think the Variety reviewer`s r...

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...

Beautiful version....Burt would have been proud !
Thank you for posting.

Grazie,
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R.I.P. Dennis...very sad to hear this.

Hi Rob,
Thank you for your reply and info, very much appreciated.
Good luck with your show and long live Burt's music !

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Hi, I'm on the forum and am happy to chat about the show or answer some questions. I hope you all are well... Rob (Shrock) Shirakbari Hi Rob, welcome to the forum, just a couple of questions, will your show be touring the UK and will Todd and Kasim be taking part if it is ? And what is the playlist...

Paul,
Thanks for posting those two wonderful tracks, yes the "Bacharach Sound" was slowly evolving and would reach full fruition very shortly with the emergence of Dionne Warwick.
The rest as they say.... is history.

Jerry Butler R.I.P.

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Recent interview about the show with Rob Shirakbari.....

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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...

Uncanny !



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Quite exceptional....



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This brings back memories....
Jack Jones R.I.P.



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