The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

http://www.towleroad.com/2010/04/musicals.html (Montage.)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culture ... eatre.html (Not the greatest review but the writer liked a lot of things about the show.)

By chance does anyone have MP3s of the Gordon MacRae recordings that they'd be willing to share?

I received this from a friend. Watching it now--fun trip down Memory Lane. Are you familiar with a site called TV4 U.com? Visit the site and select "variety" followed by 5th dimension. There is a show featuring Dionne Warwick and a very young Merle Haggard. My guess is its from the late 60...

Are any of you familiar with Melody Gardot and the very fine album of mostly original material that she released earlier this year? I think she, too, would make an interesting choice to contemplate Gershwin's unfinished melodies. A very nice article on Ms. Gardot recently appeared in the New York Ti...

Nellie McKay has just released a new tribute album to Doris Day ("Normal As Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day") on which she covers 13 songs associated with Ms. Day, including "Send Me No Flowers" and other such gems that have not been covered extensively over the years. Lala...

I've often wondered if Burt was inspired by Randy Newman's arrangement of "Is That All There Is" for his arrangement of "Everybody's Out of Town." I know that he has publicly complimented Randy for his arrangement of that wonderful recording on at least one occasion. I'd be curio...

steveo: Good call, know the song well. It's a goodie!

http://surfermoon.com/blogs/?p=550

WinRAR

Many thanks, Roberto. That IS a great link! Love having an exanded version of this with improved fidelity/stereo separation to boot!

Burt collector Lee Hartsfeld has come through once again.

http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... ailin.html

AOL has it available this week as a "freebie" listen.

http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds