The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I don't know what happened to me. I somehow thought the version you offered at the start of this thread was not the one you had offered a while back and which prompted me to say, at the time, that I wasn't too impressed with it (though I was in awe with the one at the show). It is not surprising tha...

Thank you very, very much, Keith. I had a better impression of You've Got It All Wrong before I listened to the two mp3 recordings. Maybe it has to do with the fact that seeing it live is a very different experience. For the last day of the Encores performances I took a friend on his birthday. He wa...

Keith Only now did I see your post with links at YouSendIt for Seconds and You've Got It All Wrong (Encores version). Unfortunately, the songs are no longer available. If the chance existed, would you please provide new links? (If not, thanks for the opportunity you've given us.) Dream Sweet Dreamer...

From the NYT, on what's on TV tonight (Friday): 8:15 P.M. (TMC) ALL WE ARE SAYING (2005). Pull up a chair: in a series of casual conversations, Rosanna Arquette talks with more than 50 performers, including Joni Mitchell, Steven Tyler, Sting, Burt Bacharach, Mary J. Blige, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Cro...

First, what the LA Times said about the race yesterday. (Sounded like Burt and Jane's horse would be an "also ran.") Then, the race's result. http://www.latimes.com/sports/horseracing/la-spw-insider15dec15,1,5244378.story INSIDER TRADING Sabre Baby makes Inglewood debut By Bob Mieszerski ,...

Just to remind you that part 2 will be available till Friday here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/

King of cool
Rockers come and go, but Burt Bacharach's edgy pop still swings

By ANDREW DANSBY
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent ... 24390.html

In regard to this aging controversy I keep thinking of what I've been told is a Japanese saying: "Why do you hate me if I never helped you?" I am deeply grateful to Keith. I think it was extremely unselfish of him to share with us his extremely rare recordings of compositions by our World ...

It seemed like both iTunes and Wal-Mart wouldn't work with a Brazilian address for the credit card. Maybe I am wrong, but then there's the additional issue that to transfer file isn't the most straightforward thing with these two, so I joined eMusic and, though they don't have what I was loooking fo...

Ok, this is definitely off topic. It is not about Bacharach and his work, but about Bacharach fans helping each other on a music-related theme... I am getting married in less than two weeks and would like my fiancee to listen to Simple Gifts, the Shaker hymn (some say it is actually a dance song) Aa...

I would like to ask what you thought of the Houston concert. I wonder if it was different from those that forum participants have been describing (and with which I am familiar). I ask because due to Burt's relaltionship with that orchestra I've been giving some thought to the idea of going to Housto...

Thanks for your reply. (And for everything else you've done for us.)

I agree with everything you just said. From the box set to the concerts.

Only now did I read this, by KeithBurke: "Anyone who could have written a piece of music like And The People Were With Her (not to mention why it was written) automatically is exempt from any speculation of ‘cheese factor’. End of story." I am not familiar with why that composition was...

http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-ca-socalsongs2jul02,0,5971824.story?coll=cl-music-features I just love this song and the excerpt showcased here. Sometimes I think this excerpt (within its context, as I believe that everything in a Bacharach work relates to everything else) is one of the most be...