The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Miss Warwick's induction Rock n Roll Hall of Fame 2024 performance: "I Know I'll Never Love this Way Again" with Jennifer Hudson and "Walk On By": https://youtu.be/7QNnX-QmA_o?si=YB54Lgkmp87aMCrq Jennifer Hudson has become the default go to girl for doing tributes for every Blac...

blueonblue wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2024 4:03 am This brings back memories....
Jack Jones R.I.P.



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God I dunno why but I love this soundtrack so much. Too bad it had to be the end of an iconic duo(and trio for a time) . R.i.p Jack Jones.

Here's an extended clip from Jimmy Webb's appearance on Playboy After Dark that features the interview with Hugh Hefner that preceded his performance of 'One Of The Nicer Things'. The interview or short chat was quite amusing and having read Webb's memoir I wonder whether if he'd performed a full-l...

Interesting topic and a year before Bacharach and David's musical Promises, Promises opened on Broadway Lynn Anderson had a country hit in the US with a song by the same title, but that's where any similarities end. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KiU5W1pbj4Y&pp=ygUfbHlubiBhbmRlcnNvbiBwcm9taXNlcy...

I`d like to update my reply because I didn`t Mean "Why should we like this?" I meant, "Why was this done?" I don`t understand what it proves. Logarithms are, indeed, amazing things. But what impresses about creativity in any form is its humanness. Consciousness is mysterious eno...

I'd always assumed that Dionne Warwick was the first to record 'Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets', but I've now discovered courtesy of Second-Hand Songs that a singer from New Zealand called Allison Durbin cut it a year before in 1969 for her album 'Soft And Soulful'. I can't find any in...

This is an articial intelligence cover of Burt Bachatach by artificial intelligence Beach Boys in the style of the pet sounds. I think it is genuis. I wish Burt could live forever but ill take all the creative permutations in lieu of the real thing

I think many ppl listening to this wont understand the context. This is for the Joker movie and Lady Gaga is playing the Harley Quinn character. The movie is dark, her role is dark and the song is dark . Her singing sounds slightly demented because she is playing the role of a mental asylum patient....

Maybe this could be the start of a new thread: Bacharach Songs That Sound Next To Nothing Like Bacharach. It would include anomalies like "Lisa" as well as utter astonishments like "Love Power." There are probably quite a number, especially from the "Carole Era" (wheth...

'After All' and 'Rainbow' from the mid-nineties... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uauZDcfUgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbQ7646X8Ok 'blue' These could have easily been on the Lost Horizon soundtrack 25 years earlier. These have to be the most early 70's sounding on all Burt's soungs that wer...

"I was very conscious of people looking over my shoulder at Motown." - That's the quote I was remembering. Serene was too polite and/or wise to press Burt for more details when Burt was a bit vague, which is too bad. But Burt seems like a guy who lived a very full life, in and out of musi...

I'd always assumed that Dionne Warwick was the first to record 'Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets', but I've now discovered courtesy of Second-Hand Songs that a singer from New Zealand called Allison Durbin cut it a year before in 1969 for her album 'Soft And Soulful'. I can't find any in...

I guess he would but good lord this is a lazy sample.

As I was listening to this and not quite making it through to the bitter end I found myself starting to mentally compile a list of what I consider to be the worst cover versions of Bacharach songs. One that immediately sprang to mind was Eydie Gorme's 1970 recording of 'Knowing When To Leave'. Go a...

Interesting cover. The timelessness of Burt's and Hal's songwriting can stand the test of artists who are over zealous with the limits of of their range. I hear Freddie Mercury and Neil Sedaka except combined and magnified. I can see how it could be a bit much for some ppl but he had enough taste to...