The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Hi, Geoff ! I am a big fan of Laura ! My favorite piece of her is Sweet Blindness (as sung by the 5 th dimension) I played a short cover version of it many years ago: http://app.box.com/s/z824j1d8syh83zrsqnw8 Cheers Dani I loved all Laura's work with the Fifth Dimension and think those were some of...

My favorite Laura Nyro, "Billy's Blues": http://youtu.be/pD6ScUitfeI and Ms. Streisand's glorious version of "I Never Meant to Hurt You": http://youtu.be/KdwBkgLNcoo Grooverider these are two of my favorite Nyro songs and my favorite type of Nyro song. I love her slow somber bal...

I discovered these songs as wel after listening to the links you provided. Both give off a bit of a Bacharach vibe as well.. i HEAR slight echoes of South American Getaway and songs from Butch Cassidy mixed with a bit of Tom Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGQGPstpkc https://www.youtube.com/w...

I know you want me to do my own research which I always do anyway but any songs you send my way I will gladly give a listen to.

I felt Kinda Wasted Without You had a bit of the piano rythm tho the tempo is slightly faster than Burt would normally do. The chord progressions were not nearly as complicated and odd as a Bacharachian tune as well but the attempt was there. Dont take your time once again has strong traces of Burt ...

I am curious to know what is your favorite song of hers? I always like to hear others opinions before I chime in. Along with Bacharach she is probably my favorite Brill Building composer even tho she was more of an artist however alot of others artists made her songs much more famous than she ever d...

Blair and Enormous: From 1:40 to the end is as Bacharachian as you can get without Bacharach himself composing. It has the spirit save maybe a few instruments here and there. I was impressed with the subtleties like the short horn solo at 1:50. Who does that but Bacharach himself? You guys are too h...

Bacharach idiosyncracies are extremely unique and make him very hard to duplicate. I think Wilson held his own and then some seeing as how I was able to recognize the song was in an attempted Bacharach style before reading that was his intentions in the liner notes.

An artist named Sean Macreavy put lyrics to the tune and made it sound even more Bacharach/ Davidesque.

found this quote from Wilson on wikipedia "if you want to know the truth, I think Burt Bacharach had influenced me a little bit with that. If you really analyzeit and you think about it, there were a lot of chord changes similar to the way he would put something together. And I think that his m...

That is beyond tribute!!!! That is a cerebral clone. I hate to admit it but parts of the song were even more beautiful than a typical Bacharach tune because they introduced the classic pet sounds themes into Bacharachs latin soft jazz and created heaven on earth. Always glad to run into a gem like t...

you can also listen to it here.

cant u just hear Dionne's soaring voice pining for her unrequite love on this from 15:05 till the end of the tune?

Its a song on the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album called Lets go away for a while. It is mostly instrumental it sounds more Bacharach than any Bacharach tune ive heard. It starts at 13:23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZ2pziuLjo I also hear Laura Nyro for the first 18 seconds of the song and from 1:05...

This song is so great I don't know what else to say. You can tell you are a true Bacharach fan. I would take out the cheap midi instrument though. If you replace that you have a masterpiece.