The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Burt arranged Who Can I Turn To for Dionne which was a minor hit in 1965 as well as her entire "On Stage and In the Movies" album from 1967. He did arrange Dionne's single "Valley of the Dolls" as well. "On Stage and In the Movies" contains stunning Bacharach arrangemen...

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This Girl's In Love With You-Live Ed Sullivan 1969

Ahmet Ertegun controls the RRHOF and the roster of Atlantic artists past and present are extremely well represented. I have a theory...Dionne was offered a substantial contract by Atlantic according to the trade papers in 1968; Ertegun was Chairman of the Board of Atlantic at the time...she would no...

No, think it's politics plain and simple. Dusty is in...she's not a rock singer. Abba's in...not a rock group...Madonna's in...she's not anything...Mama's and the Papa's in...they were the most sublime POP group ever...that old argument that Dionne's not a rock and roller doesn't hold water. I think...

Steve, Dionne was always running neck and neck with Aretha in popularity in the mid-sixties to the early seventies (I do not debate the Diana Ross fans who always bring up that Diana was more popular than either because until 1970 when Diana went solo, she was a member of a vocal group...and when sh...

Cooder's version of the tune was used as the basis for the arrangement for Nicolette Larson's cover of the tune cut around 1978. Her version is orchestrated beautifully although it does differ markedly from Burt's original with the Drifters and Dionne high in the mix. I do like Ry's work but prefer ...

Steve, Dionne and Burt's original was actually recorded in June 66. Bacharach did play the piano for the session. Here is what "Dibotis" wrote about the tune on his commentary on You-Tube...the original version below is unedited with Bacharach being heard on the count-off. http://www.youtu...

Dionne sings a great interpretation of her current hit I Say A Little Prayer live on the Ed Sullivan Show telecast on January 7, 1968. Dionne also sang Battle Hymn of the Republic on the same show. This is one of the very few times Ed got Dionne's name right during his introduction. Interesting to n...

This looks like Bell Sound on W 54th Street in Manhattan and Engineer Ed Smith...this would probably have been a session for Dionne from about 1963 or 1964 from the look of things. Of course, it's easy to identify Burt and Hal and Ed Smith, but I can't identify the gentleman from profile but through...

I remember hearing a raw recording of Then He Walked Through the Door many years ago and it was on par with anything Burt and Dionne did together during her tenure with Scepter and that means, in other words, it was really good. I am not sure of the registration of the tunes though because of the co...

I can provide a little perspective on that…when Burt holed up in Malibu after the reviews for Lost Horizon came in, he was devastated. The album “Dionne” was released in January 1972 and Bacharach went to work on Lost Horizon shortly afterward. Dionne’s previous album “Very Dionne” was released in D...

Blair, ITA. Hal wrote the lyric for the musical numbers and was able to walk away to other things. Burt has said that he grew to resent Hal because Hal did just that (and Burt acknowledges these days that his role in the musical required his undue attention; that's the nature of his craft)...while B...

I just can't get too worked up over revisiting Lost Horizon. The score was good but the musical numbers were just average in my opinion. I saw the film three times when it was released and each time I watched, I was more and more disappointed in the film each time. It just didn't work. I have watche...

Steveo, this shows perfectly how much polished charm and charisma Dionne had...she was such a strikingly lovely woman and television captured the "it" she had perfectly...her appearances on Ed Sullivan for I Say A Little Prayer and This Girl's In Love With You are available as video clips ...

Steveo, The video was removed likely due to publication rights. That's usually the reason...not a bad review! It was interesting and should surface again; I am willing to wager a small amount that this tune was not performed on American television. The tune was so perfect in it's original form and i...