The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Wasn’t there some talk that they were written with the intent of combining them with songs from “Painted from Memory” as a musical theatre work?

You're not kidding, Blair - I finally acquired this. It's heart wrenching in the way only Burt can write. Absolutely top-notch. Why can't Elvis and Burt record these languishing works???!

It's one of many songs from Burt's "dumbed down to be marketable" period. Many are truly sublime, but they're more hooks than fully-formed songs -
Burt restraining himself but unable not to be a genius! Another that just blows me away is "Take Good Care of You and Me".

It killed me that GetTV is not on my cable lineup, and, although it is supposed to be available here over the air, I wasn't able to get the channel. I hope someone will be able to get the show up on Youtube.

Here's our chance to make our voices heard for finally getting Burt this award which he unequivocally deserves: http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/ ... ?confirm=1

Since it came out, I've considered this soundtrack album a wonderful, ecstatically-met gift - it's like Burt and Hal (and Dionne) deftly reached back in time and pulled up a companion to "What's New, Pussycat", "Casino Royale" and "After the Fox" - scores with incompara...

Why does all of the good stuff have to be on the left coast?!

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/15 ... elebration

Nikki Jean's debut album has been released, and is happily titled "Pennies in a Jar":

Burt's other collaborations with Krikorian were written or at least recorded from 1999 - 2002. SMAP was apparently Japan's contribution to the Boy Band era, and they were recording during those years; the album cited on youtube is from 2008, but appears to be a compilation. How Jerry Leiber came int...

Every year that passes begs more disbelief! Paul McCartney's time came before Burt's?? Come on!

I can hear Karen singing "Here I Am" in my head and it is giving me chills. Wow. I'm also hearing "Whoever You Are, I Love You" quite distinctly, and the one strong emotional element she consistently and exquisitely employed - that slight, aching vocal hitch - would have been dev...

I was performing in a concert at the Library of Congress' Coolidge Auditorium on May 14 and happened to notice a rehearsal sheet taped to the wall backstage which referred to the following. I was horrified that I had missed the event, but it was apparently for an invited audience. If only video were...

I generally loathe any attempt at time shifting for Broadway shows, but can at least respect a concept, however misguided it may be. This instance, however, is no concept - it is simply asinine. Promises, Promises is not strictly topical, but is a product of a VERY specific time, and the tumultuous ...

What a lovely new piece. How does such endless invention and concurrent recognizability come to be (it's like seeing a Cezanne or Van Gogh and knowing instantly who the artist is)? And how lucky for us that in this case it is combined with such longevity. I just want to hear Dionne singing this song...

Larry Wilcox is also responsible (or at least credited for) one of my favorite non-Bacharach tracks by Dionne - Jimmy Webb's "Didn't We". The arrangement, combined with Dionne's incomparable rendering, lift it from the "I ate it up and spit it out" genre in which it was previousl...