The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I can try to add to this...Burt at that time was a very busy man...and while he did attempt to do most of the work on Dionne's albums, for some cuts, he hired some of his friends to do some of the charts.. If these arrangements were not featured as a single, he would often leave then "as is&quo...

The brilliant "Nikki" recordings made for ABC-TV for Movie of the Week were recorded for ABC by Harry Betts, a brilliant trombonist and music arranger. He made various lengths of the song for use by the network, and a more or less complete version can be heard on "TV Party"(websi...

Regarding the "Hard to find" music from Burt, you have (understandibly) if you are under 60, missed the peak years of Burt's heydey. I can assure you a lot of sheet music was published, including all of the themes from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The problem is, as time goes by, pu...