VCR alert! Burt Bacharach’s 1973 musical remake of Lost Horizon will be shown on American Movie Classics on Monday, July 26, at 10:30 p.m. EDT (and again at 5:45 a.m. the next morning). If there were any doubt as to the film’s cult status, check out AMC’s viewer comments page.

Doug Feldman sent an MP3 of a rare Bacharach recording, Keely Smith’s 1970 (original?) recording of “One Less Bell to Answer.”

Ice Magazine reports that 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection (A&M) will be released on July 20 and the long-awaited Promises, Promises original cast recording reissue will be released on Aug.

3. These come on the heels of the The Look of Love: Classic Love Songs of Burt Bacharach(Hip-O), which was released on June 1, and The Reel Burt Bacharach (Hip-O), which was released on June 22.

And in some exciting news, a corespondent wrote to inform us that Burt will headline a free concert in New York at Coney Island’s Seaside Park on Thursday, July 29. The show is part of the 21st annual Seaside Concert Series, a series of free summer concerts at the park that is coordinated through the office of New York state Senator Marty Markowitz with the help of corporate donations. Doors open at 6 and the show starts at 7:30. Comedian Mal Z. Lawrence will open the show. For more information on the show, visit the Seaside Concert Series Website.