The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Hello David, My commercial JAL plane is about to disembark, I am now in the airport doing this email. I will be out of the BB forum radar for a month doing this 'round the world' trip. First stop is Tokyo Narita...will scour downtown record store in SEARCH of Bacharach CD records that gets released ...

HELLO DAVID, Got your postal mail today dated September 8th. Glad to hear too, you've gotten the postcard, yup it's been 5 years since our last correspondence. Thank you for mentioning your current BB collections. The BB concert you mentioned , he did in Tokyo--I have already transcoded it to CD fro...

Ruby is really one of her kind. She did a splendid record, and a mild hit---called Our Day Will Come. First offered to a superb vocalist in the name of Dionne Warwick, who was then in contract with a label company--Scepter/Wand. No Dionne, nobody knows the behind the scene negotiation but , Ruby san...

The show was fantastic. I only hope that it will be rebroadcasted again. I saw it on KTEH here in Sacramento, California The energy created in entertaining her audience is hypnotic,captivating and infectious. Her old hit, Girls Just...Fun, took a new rendition. Very jolly indeed! Her following the l...

FOR GOOD TUNES, I Suggest the music and lyrics of Broadway Maestro, Stephen Sonheim. I believe he alone, on sole effort, can carry off--Broadway tunes to the Nth level, many notches way up--from the current crop of writers in the recordings today. Not doing much more are Michel Legrand, Antonio Carl...

PBS Subscribers, VCR Alert on a special collections of music by Dusty Springfield any day on your PBS local stations. Check Listings. Titled "Reflections" the show is about a compilations of her music videos performances, probably mainly from BBC, and is hosted supposedly by Petula Clark w...

fOREWORD: I've just got this and would like to share it with you. It came from a friend in England. I hope you will enjoy it like he did. Read on-- Dear Dario, Fairfield Hall itself was in need of much renovation - I wish Dionne would have performed at a more fitting venue like the Royal Albert hall...

(Check Your Local PBS Listings) A musical special is on PBS again, at least in my neck of the woods, this time will happen this coming Saturday. About the timelessness of the songs that covered the select period of the time. Scheduled to perform, inter-alia, Tony Orlando and Dawns (Tie, a Yellow Rib...

We just finished having El Maestro BBacharach at the Mountain winery, and was reviewed by another poster in this forum--here, in Northern California..in particular Saratoga. Maybe it's the wine and select luxurious cheese that made him make another engagement tour here in the Northern California aga...

A dear friend who I have been in correspondence because of the music and appreciation of his work for more than two decades now, has sent me a rare review of what he recently show from Germany. He is a local from the city of Dortmund, where one of my cousin has married a local Fraulein. Met him thro...

fOR THIS COMING SUNDAY, JULY 18TH AT BRAVO, DIONNE WARWICK WILL CLOSE THE SPECIAL ON SONGWRITERS SPECIAL. IT IS WEEK OF TRIBUTE TO SONGWRITERS, STARTING MONDAY 'S SALUTE. DIONNE SINGING COMING SUNDAY, WITH THE SONG, "WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS LOVE" WITH THE OTHER PERFORMERS AND OTHER WRITERS CL...

Place or Concert Venue: The Mountain Winery Address: 14831 Pierce Road, Saratoga California URL : WWW Mountainwinery.com Dates & Performers: June 3, An Evening with BB, Boz Scaggs July 9 & 10, Bruce Hornsby July 14, Cyndy Lauper (Walk On By) At Last tour July 15 with Jennifer Marks (?), Come...

Burt Bacharach will be performing at the vineyard of Saratoga Winery here in the Northern California... La Dionne was seen here last, when she was tossing a song called No One In the World...which she said , she fought hard to be released as a single, but lost the fight. But Anita Baker...hitting it...

THERE IS A DOUBLE DISC BEING MARKETED TODAY ENTITLED MUSIC LEGEND, I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER. BY DIONNE WARWICK. THE SET COMPRISES OF ONE CD AND ONE DVD. THE DVD IS ABOUT 4 UNKNOWN PERSONALITIES SUPPOSEDLY FROM THE MUSIC INDUSTRY TALK INDIVIDUALLY ABOUT DIONNE. INFORMATION YOU PROBABLY HEARD AND READ OV...

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