The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

If you live in the Los Angeles area, come see us do Burt & Hal.

This Friday!
Bacharach-David Tribute show, January 22, 7:30 PST

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Re-scheduled to 1/22/2021.

Thanks! I will be doing a Zoom charitable benefit concert exclusively performing songs by Burt and Hal in late November. I will post about it here.

Tashian is the son of Barry Tashian, who led a group in Boston in the '60's called Barry & The Remains, later just The Remains. I used to see them at the Ratskellar in Boston and they were terrific. They opened for The Beatles at Suffolk Downs in Revere, MA. They made a little noise nationally, ...

Happ Birthday Burt. My music owes a debt to you that I can never repay.

A little pitchy, but nice feel.

I hope this doesn't violate any rules but here I am performing some Burt & Hal songs live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR9BesGdX6o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m7dvXmsKeY Jay this is amazing. I always love hearing everybodys out of town as I feel its obscure to most people who are not B...

[quote="someonenameddavid"]I know a good violinist in LA who can help with sessions 8)[/quote] I used to score TV series like “Zorro” and low budget films where I had enough of a budget to hire great musicians here in LA, but nowadays it’s all so low budget that it’s mostly me and my sampl...

Hank wrote:Boy do I wish I could play like you.
Great versions.
Thanks.

Thanks for the kind words.

I hope this doesn't violate any rules but here I am performing some Burt & Hal songs live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR9BesGdX6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m7dvXmsKeY

I just stumbled on to this forum. I am a composer-singer-songwriter in Los Angeles and I do Burt Bacharach-Hal David tribute shows. I have met Burt twice and am friendly with Hal's son, Jim.

Looking forward to participating here.