The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Here's a little bit of information from Rumer on these songs that sheds a little light "For songs like Look Of Love and Close To You, they were all one takes. Sometimes you get a bit of magic in the studio, whilst playing the piano, if I'm in the right mood, the lighting's in the right spot and...

Another great review

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertai ... _tw-bottom

The making of This Girls in Love.


https://youtu.be/R8FqWrMh86k

Heres a review much more like it!


http://attitude.co.uk/album-reviews-bet ... s-in-love/

A sampler of the album has been posted by Rumer


https://youtu.be/cxhgXnOde1o

Here is Rumer's 'Walk on by' which had its world premiere on Radio 2 today

http://youtu.be/ssUcI_iFEWI

If you want to see that show its here


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8ciNT ... xjeWs/view

It's curious how her recording of 'The Balance of Nature' seems to owe more to the Carpenters than her version of 'Close to You'. Either way, both tracks are tip-top and they auger well for the rest of the album. One fact that is already becoming clear is the importance of having Bacharach's former...

Rumers take of 'Balance of Nature'

http://smarturl.it/BalanceOfNature

A hot redition of 'This Guys in love' here from Tom Jones and Pet Clark.


https://youtu.be/-wgJoZl3lFU

Rumer is joining Burt on his upcoming appearance at London Palladium no doubt prompted by their personal interest in this album.

I learned yesterday that Burt is playing on Rumer's new Bacharach & David album beng recorded at Capitol L A.

Martin Johnson wrote: Talking of BBC radio, when's Burt going to be featured on Desert Island Discs?

Why have you heard that he's recorded a Desert island discs show?

More exposure for Burt on New Years Eve

BBC Radio 2 at midday " What the World needs Now is Burt Bacharach" ---- Paul Gambaccini talks to Burt Bacharach ( duration 2 hours).

Martin Johnson wrote:For UK based members of this site, the show is being televised on Friday 27th at 9pm on BBC4. The length of the broadcast and whether it's the whole show I've yet to ascertain.

According to my TV guide the show is 1 hour 30 minutes duration, whether that's the whole thing who knows?