The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I must have missed this the first time it was posted because it's completely new to me. I've heard a lot about Bacharach and Newley touring as a kind of double act back in the 1970s so I especially enjoyed the two songs they performed together. It was also interesting seeing and hearing Burt accompa...

As charming and touching as Burt's recording of 'Lie Back And Think Of England' undoubtedly is I'd have been happier if both it and the song itself didn't sound so incomplete. As for 'Look Up Again' and 'Taken From Life', I think they're both excellent.

That Elvis Costello is enormously proud to have collaborated with Bacharach is obvious from that video of him unveiling the box set. For inspiring Burt to write some of his best music of the past fifty years he has my upmost respect and eternal gratitude.

I'm sure we've all formed such an emotional attachment to his music that we were bound to be deeply affected by the news of his passing. When somebody of a great age dies the standard response is to say that they've had a good innings, but of course in Burt Bacharach's case the innings could never h...

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Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:12 am

Anyone want to hear a new Burt Bacharach song?

What a tonic it's been in this saddest of weeks to listen to this extraordinary 'new' song.

I only listen to Desert Island Discs if I have a particular interest in the guest, which these days is only very occasionally. From my experience of listening to the show, classical musicians have tended to stick to their own genre for their eight choices, as have pop and rock musicians, although I'...

I remember listening to both editions of this very well made documentary and I believe it was broadcast in February 2004. It was presented by singer Michael Ball who was soon to release an album of Bacharach songs and featured contributions from Angie Dickinson, Hal David, Carole Bayer Sager and lon...

It seems that all 4 CDs are only available in the very pricey super deluxe edition along with the 2 LPs and the booklet. However, a 2 CD set will be available consisting of discs 1 & 2 from the super deluxe and at a very reasonable price.

I believe Anita Pointer sang lead on the majority of their hits and her passing leaves Ruth as the sole surviving sister. 'The Love Too Good To Last' sounds like classic Bacharach to me now but I'm not sure if I thought that when I first heard it in the early 1980s.

Perhaps it's significant that at last year's cancelled event Bacharach was scheduled to perform while this time round he's merely doing a presentation.

"When you're writing songs with Burt Bacharach, you obviously don't give a fuck what people think". Now which Burt Bacharach do you think Bob Dylan was referring to in that statement? The one with a long-standing reputation as one of the greatest popular music composers of the twentieth century, or ...

I wonder that after nearly three years off the road Burt has decided that he can live without all the hassle of touring?

The dear lady would have been 75 today and twenty-five years after her death she remains a little known woman of mystery. I read somewhere that a documentary film about her life is in the works and I should imagine that all the existing video footage of her performing will be shown in this film, inc...

When Dusty Springfield got her own TV series with the BBC in the late 60s the two things that immediately became apparent were her slightly wacky sense of humour and her musical versatility. I've heard her sing in French before but this is the first time I can remember seeing this clip of her singin...

Apparently Dusty was brought up in High Wycombe, a market town about twenty-five miles northwest of central London, before she moved with her family to Ealing in west London in the early 1950s when she was aged around eleven or twelve. By all accounts she was a real tomboy who loved to play football...