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by Dennis Webb
Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:29 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Hello from a long fan and a forum newbie
Replies: 2
Views: 3528

Re: Hello From a Long Fan and Forum Newbie

The proliferation of Bacharach music in Muzak venues had nothing to do with his fall in popularity in the pop music business after the mid 1970s. Muzak creates dessicated clones of all sorts of music, which doesn't bring any backlash from music lovers. The decline in commercial success of Burt's son...
by Dennis Webb
Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:21 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Subscribing an Album
Replies: 0
Views: 2283

Subscribing an Album

http://news.com.com/Web-only+album+wins+Grammy/2100-1027_3-5574470.html?tag=nefd.top This URL is a news story about a woman who is a jazz composer and who won a Grammy last night. The interesting thing is that the funding for producing her CD came from her fans in the form of a subscription. Each su...
by Dennis Webb
Wed Dec 29, 2004 8:44 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: "Christmas Day"
Replies: 2
Views: 3380

"Christmas Day"

Over the holidays I got to hear Burt & Hal's "Christmas Day" song sung by Johnny Mathis. I was familiar with the performance on the "Promises, Promises" soundtrack, but this was my first hearing of Mathis' version, which is just superb. It's about 3:24 long and has a very lus...