The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

blueonblue wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 2:10 am Rare Hatch / Trent composition .....damn that Flugelhorn !


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what was this song again?

Maybe this could be the start of a new thread: Bacharach Songs That Sound Next To Nothing Like Bacharach. It would include anomalies like "Lisa" as well as utter astonishments like "Love Power." There are probably quite a number, especially from the "Carole Era" (wheth...

'After All' and 'Rainbow' from the mid-nineties... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uauZDcfUgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbQ7646X8Ok 'blue' These could have easily been on the Lost Horizon soundtrack 25 years earlier. These have to be the most early 70's sounding on all Burt's soungs that wer...

The last ten seconds of an Edith Piaf song may have influenced alot of Burt's later motif's after 1962. Burt had a very close relationship to Marlene Dietrich and Edith was basically her protege. The last ten seconds of the song À quoi ça sert l'amour is more Bacharach than Bacharach himself. It sou...

Diane Dane “My World Is Over” check it out: https://youtu.be/MgkGHFvhprY?si=6DCuK-ZEfoYmuv52 I felt like the horns were very Bacharach sounding and the little chimes as well. Let me know your thoughts 💭 😇 I hear it. Its a bit Elvis Costello painted from memory meets swing out sister(accused of soun...

A Roger Nichols song i never heard before. Sounds like it could be on Lost Horizons

Rare Hatch / Trent composition .....damn that Flugelhorn ! :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bC9nEdIE00 'blue' Flugelhorns and French horns always make me think of Burt. The backing singers sound like Burts backing singers. A couple other Hatch/Trent compositions have been dead ringers and this i...

Alot of Petula Clarks songs sound like Bacharach songs. While not a dead ringer for Big Bach the quirks of " The Cat in the window" remind me of a Burt composition especially in the string section. The ending however is a huge divergence from how Burt would end a song I had to listen to it...

"I was very conscious of people looking over my shoulder at Motown." - That's the quote I was remembering. Serene was too polite and/or wise to press Burt for more details when Burt was a bit vague, which is too bad. But Burt seems like a guy who lived a very full life, in and out of musi...

I'd always assumed that Dionne Warwick was the first to record 'Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets', but I've now discovered courtesy of Second-Hand Songs that a singer from New Zealand called Allison Durbin cut it a year before in 1969 for her album 'Soft And Soulful'. I can't find any in...

Barbra Streisand singing a Richard Maltby and David Shire number Starting Here Starting Now. Sounds very similar to Wanting Things.

blueonblue wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:21 pm Here's 'Autostop' from Italian film composer Bruno Nicolai....

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Identical!!!!

blueonblue wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 4:45 am The song Steve just mentioned....catchy little ditty.

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This song def has that bright Brill Building sound to it. Funny it actually sounds more like a Goffin/King song to me but there are some Burtesque approaches to the piano playing..

I guess he would but good lord this is a lazy sample.

As I was listening to this and not quite making it through to the bitter end I found myself starting to mentally compile a list of what I consider to be the worst cover versions of Bacharach songs. One that immediately sprang to mind was Eydie Gorme's 1970 recording of 'Knowing When To Leave'. Go a...