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by geoff85
Thu Aug 25, 2022 4:08 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Replies: 268
Views: 543810

Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach



Another Goffin/King production Lenny Welch " I was there"
by geoff85
Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:48 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Marriage, French Style and its successors
Replies: 8
Views: 4131

Re: Marriage, French Style and its successors

According to Serene Dominic's book 'Song By Song', 'Joanne' of Joanne And The Streamliners was in fact English singer Rosemary Squires, whose voice became very familiar to the British public because it featured at the end of a very popular TV advert for washing-up liquid intoning the line, "No...
by geoff85
Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:41 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Marriage, French Style and its successors
Replies: 8
Views: 4131

Re: Marriage, French Style and its successors

Just wanted to add that the Here I am instrumental is so melancholy and spellbinding in only a way Bacharach can do. He is up there with the great classic composers like Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky if you ask me. He simply spent his life producing pop music but his orchestral scores really show the d...
by geoff85
Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:12 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Replies: 268
Views: 543810

Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach



A Girl named Eddy " People who used to dream". Sounds like a more modern version of the classic Bacharach sound almost like something I could hear Elvis Costello and Bacharach make in the 90s
by geoff85
Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:12 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Im obsessed with Brenda Reid from The Exciters voice!!
Replies: 8
Views: 4178

Re: Im obsessed with Brenda Reid from The Exciters voice!!

Just listened to a few songs in the car and I'm right with you Geoff. She is a knockout ! She is distinct amongst many Brill Building singers in that she doesnt sound pristine and polished like Dionne Warwick or Sheila Ross from Royalettes)not really Brill but still). She is giving you the raw grit...
by geoff85
Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:03 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Replies: 268
Views: 543810

Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach



Beach Boys " Caroline no" sounds a bit similar to the Bacharach sound of the late 60s.I think Brian Wilson has stated his Bacharach influence as well so not really surprising.

Omg so much feedback on this page!!!!!
by geoff85
Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:44 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Im obsessed with Brenda Reid from The Exciters voice!!
Replies: 8
Views: 4178

Re: Im obsessed with Brenda Reid from The Exciters voice!!

omg the feedback on here is overwhelming me. Here is another Brenda Reid( Exciters)fave. Prob one of my fave Lieber/Stoller produced songs behind Look in my eyes Maria.

by geoff85
Tue Aug 23, 2022 2:40 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Replies: 268
Views: 543810

Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach

Barbara Streisands starting here starting now(A Richard Maltby/David Shire production) sounds the most like a Bacharach song if ever I ever heard one. Its literally Wanting Things with a few key changes and different lyrics.

by geoff85
Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:30 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: The best version of "The Way We Were"
Replies: 0
Views: 4345

The best version of "The Way We Were"

Doesn't belong to Barbara Streisand imo. I am partial to Eydie Gorme's various versions.In some circles that could be blasphemous but i feel the sentiment of the song more when Eydie sings it. She is probably one of the best singers of all time. It is a pity she became more of a variety act and neve...
by geoff85
Mon Aug 22, 2022 3:32 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Im obsessed with Brenda Reid from The Exciters voice!!
Replies: 8
Views: 4178

Im obsessed with Brenda Reid from The Exciters voice!!

I think Dusty Springfield is quoted as saying when she first heard Brenda's voice on tell him she was stopped in her tracks and decided she was going to travel to America and pursue soul, and thank god she did. The Exciters are for the most part overlooked in comparison to many of the girl groups of...
by geoff85
Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:43 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach
Replies: 268
Views: 543810

Re: Another great song that sounds like Bacharach



The Brill Building productions of the early 60s could be a bit incestuous. Once again another Goffin/KIng song that could pass for Bacharach/Hilliard song. I hear shades of Any Day Now. What do you guys think?
by geoff85
Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:32 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: The most beautiful Goffin/King song is a rarity
Replies: 0
Views: 4292

The most beautiful Goffin/King song is a rarity

God bless the Al Gore's internet. I truly thought i knew most of Carole King/Gerry Goffins better work but the best song they ever wrote is pretty much unknown. Its Where Does Love Go?, by Freddie Scott. It's probably one of the most beautiful songs I ever heard in my life and just heard it today. G...
by geoff85
Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:26 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Who is Bacharach's second best writing partner?
Replies: 12
Views: 5164

Re: Who is Bacharach's second best writing partner?

A special mention for Carole Bayer Sager, if only for her collaboration with Burt on her sublime album 'Sometimes Late At Night'. I was gonna put a disclaimer that she can't be considered but then i listened to Arthurs Theme and Heartlight and it softened up my heart but Thats What friends are for ...
by geoff85
Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:23 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Who is Bacharach's second best writing partner?
Replies: 12
Views: 5164

Re: Who is Bacharach's second best writing partner?

I think it`s very much up for debate (however heretical) that Hal was Burt`s best lyricist - albeit indisputably his most commercially successful. I`ve always thought it regrettable that Burt never had a partner with the sophistication of a Larry Hart or a Cole Porter. I understand that these men w...
by geoff85
Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:16 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Who is Bacharach's second best writing partner?
Replies: 12
Views: 5164

Re: Who is Bacharach's second best writing partner?

.....and who could forget ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rrp3Zvzl20 'blue' Omg so weird you posted this. I've been on a Tami Terrell binge all weekend. What a beauty with an angelic voice but a heartbreakingly sad sad story smh. The song ive been singing all weekend is if this world were mine w...