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I have to imagine that Dionne will appear as a "surprise" guest.

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the First Lady FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2012 PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY TO HOST CONCERT HONORING BURT BACHARACH AND HAL DAVID IN THE EAST ROOM On Wednesday, May 9th, as part of their “In Performance at the White House” series, the President and First Lady will host a conc...

Just a couple of years ago, we ran into Hal and his wife at a local Westwood, CA restaurant. I was the only person in the crowded place who recognized him. I decided to buy the David's dinner as a small token of my appreciation for his extraordinary career. He couldn't have been more grateful and ki...

Here's the video from the Roy Firestone interview:

http://www.kcet.org/shows/la_tonight_wi ... stone.html

Does anyone out there have a recording of the session Burt did with Marion McPartland on her NPR show Piano Jazz? I missed it when it originally aired, and it's never been posted to her website. I'd love to hear it.

David Nathan wrote a very flattering piece about Dionne and the songs of B&D after her recent concert in Thailand:

http://www.soulmusic.com/diwatrmuam.html

Here are the chords...

Verse: Am7 D G Dm7 Dm9 G Dm9 Dm7 G

Chorus: (G) F#m7 F9 Em9 Em7 Em9 A9 F#m7 F9 Em9 A9 Dm Dm7 G7 G+

Bridge: A(addB) A A(addB) A Cmaj7

I just received this from contactmusic.com: ROD STEWART, DIONNE WARWICK and JAMES TAYLOR have teamed up with celebrated crooner STEVE TYRELL for a tribute to songwriters BURT BACHARACH and HAL DAVID. Tyrell, who has a long history with Bacharach and David, has recorded an album of their tunes - and ...

You're so right Steve. The show overall was just a mess, not to mention pretty damn boring. Maybe it was so poorly conceived and organized because of the writer's strike, but Burt and the other lifetime acheivement winners deserved much better.

I went to the Sunday matinee performance of Love Sweet Love. I wasn't sure what to expect, and I went in with an open mind, but I left feeling disappointed. I admire what the director and cast were trying to do, but the production felt very forced and, frankly, shallow. The cast was generally good, ...

I managed to get two tickets to Burt's concert at Disney Hall in downtown LA last night. The concert was originally scheudled for February, but was postponed when Burt injured his shoulder, and also, I think, because of Nikki's death around that time. It had been sold out for months, but I kept call...

No one mentioned the 8-bar (I think) string quartet coda at the end of Dionne's "Let Me Go To Him"... brilliant finishing touch.

Burt supposedly made an appearance at the Grammys last night. I stopped watching the show after a few minutes -- terrible production. But I would have stuck with it or recorded it if I had known he would be on.

Did anyone see it? Why was there no 'heads-up' here on the site???

I met Nikki and her mom about three years ago, at a birthday party for the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. That morning I happened to be playing the song Burt wrote for Nikki on the piano, not knowing I would be meeting her that night. I told her about this interesting coincidence, and she said...