The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

A pre-mortem tribute from John Cale (who is not responsible for the nostalgic video portion):

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 re...

And her Bacharach non-hit:

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 and...

As a long-time fan, I wasn`t at all surprised to see TR involved in this. Like most of us first-wave "Boomers", Todd heard and loved pop music before the Beatles existed. It was the music of our parents` generation and largely introduced to us through Broadway musical cast recordings. He m...

Each previous version of the Webb forum was unceremoniously shut down - but only to reappear with a newer design. The most recent closure seems permanent to me. There were only around half a dozen participants left, mostly re-making old points and reasserting old favorites. In the absence of any new...

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In addition to making "Wives and Lovers" a hit, Jack also made an album (`L. A' Breakdown`) featuring half a dozen Randy Newman songs.

I`d like to update my reply because I didn`t Mean "Why should we like this?" I meant, "Why was this done?" I don`t understand what it proves. Logarithms are, indeed, amazing things. But what impresses about creativity in any form is its humanness. Consciousness is mysterious enou...

Just one question: Why?

Here`s the other song from that soundtrack performed/lip-synced/or something by Burt and Jackie on the usually egregious `Midnight Special.`

And from their second and lesser known (semi-) collaboration, `Breakwater Cat`, "Gone': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFXh-8VZkR4 JW wrote only half of the songs on this album and arranged none. It was largely dismissed as a misfired disco album by Webb fans. Although "Gone" is a re...

Or just plain dumber:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/scie ... Position=1
(Parenthetically, I cannot fathom why the trite Sedaka tune is offered as a last example of melodic complexity, but anyway...)