The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I wonder how many of Burt's contemporaries are touring the world giving concerts of only their songs and music?

I think the answer to this proves beyond a doubt how far above everyone else Burt is as a true composer of great, inspiring and everlasting music.

Mark, I tried getting into this site earlier this evening and I couldn't get in. A screen showed saying something about this site having exceeded its bandwidth. Is that really what happened? If so, what does that mean and how did you correct it? (I'm posting this in case others had the same problem.)

Someone once asked me what I would do if I won the Powerball Lottery. I said that I'd fly to every Burt Bacharach concert, that's what I'd do!

Thanks for the article. It's always good to know what some of these old-timers are up to. As for me, I hold "Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa" in very high esteem. I think it's one of both Burt and Hal's better efforts. It's a song about a real low-life cad! The song is written like a true sto...

I never saw it reviewed, I never saw it in a store, nothing.

Whatever happened to it and why?

Yeah, Mark, I was thinking the same thing, knowing you live in the Big Easy. For those who don't know: If the levees of Lake Pontchartrain give way, New Orleans could be totally devastated. May God forbid that should ever happen!

DR DREhas been ordered to pay more than $1.5 million to the copyright holder of a song he sampled on his 2001 track 'LET'S GET HIGH'. The master producer and rapper was told by a Los Angeles jury yesterday (May 7) to pay less than half of the $3.5 million sought by Minder Music Ltd for copyright inf...

That was great mark, thanks. And to hear Burt talk like that is so cool. I do have one question. He mentions that Dre gave him a 4-bar loop and he'll write over it. Is the loop just a base line? Or does the loop contain the actual chord changes that Burt will have to use? I ask this because I'm wond...

.l....Luckily, in the David lyric, the protagonist chooses not to be weighed down by melancholy. "... those blues they send to meet me, won't defeat me... It won't be long 'til happiness steps up to greet me." I love those lines and it perfectly describes what you said. I think that song ...

I can't believe they won't use Dionne's original version. It's the epitome of a great singer doing a definitive version of one of the great songs of all time. And that Bacharach arrangement, my god!!

She should have included "Christmas Day" by Bacharach/David.

Listening to the great compositions of BURT, the LOOK of LOVE. After all these years it still gives me goosebumps Great Arrangement and even the flugelhorns and strings Thats BURT the MAESTRO The best performance ever heard I listen to that CD a lot. I agree totally with what you said. In a way, I ...

When Brittany Murphy, one of the stars of My Little Black Book, was on the David Letterman show a few weeks ago, Paul Shaffer had the band play her on with Burt's (and Hal's) "My Little Red Book". I would imagine that only a small percentage of the viewer's got the reference, but I could h...

I believe Hal David to be the most unrecognized genius in America today. I never stop thinking about how hard it is to write one good lyric--never mind his incredible output.

There's never been anyone better!

I'm not sure if the Stylistics did any other songs of Burt.

But I'm curious to know if the Stylistics that you will see contain the exact and original Stylistics. I saw them on PBS recently and the lead singer looked too young to have been in the original group. Would you happen to know?