The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

This is indeed sad but not at all surprising. I've posted here for years regarding Dionne's inability to manage money and surrounding herself with the same folks through the years who have taken, taken, taken from her. She has burned herself over and over. Dionne has a long history of extreme and ou...

Can almost guarantee this is for the supposed charity project produced by Damon Elliott. This seems to be tied somehow to the charity that Dionne and Damon recently became involved with...I don't know if Damon can sell enough helicopters and liquidate enough assets to produce Mom again or if this ch...

Here is an article about Whitney Houston's vocal decline. It may offer some interesting insight into this discussion:

http://aapproach.com/what-happened-to-w ... -analysis/

Smoking changed her voice and the effects of smoking are cumulative...up to a tipping point, she still had the range and the lung power to compensate for the effects of smoking. Once she hit that tipping point, it was all downhill from there...do you SERIOUSLY believe that smoking has not had a detr...

GeiVorbei, you must be a child of the 1980s. Dionne had huge international hits in Walk On By, Do You Know the Way to San Jose and others in the 1960s. Her biggest international hit was Do You Know the Way to San Jose which Heartbreaker runs a close second to. San Jose literally hit all over the wor...

And by the way, hijacking an artist's catalog is something that happened in the US of A frequently. Do Mr. Fats Domino and Mr. Pat Boone come to mind? The practice was common in the music industry in the 50s and 60s and not limited to GB. On the surface, it seems rather benign but in the USA in the ...

Well by gum if Dionne says it, it must be so! Give it a break. Tony Hatch was no more a Bacharach copycat than you or I. Bacharach was influenced by so many and if you listen to Jobim and others, who were writing things Bacharach was profoundly influenced by, you can bank on it that there are simila...

Enormous, ROTFLMFAO!!!!

Well said!

Shirley Bassey was fantastic! The woman has clearly taken care of her voice. Although I am no fan of Barbra Streisand and never have been she gave a moving rendition of "The Way We Were". Her voice was noticably more fragile but still good. I remember Dionne's 2000 Oscar performance at age...

Enormous, I think the reason that HDH didn't work with Dionne or she with them after Just Being Myself was simply economics. Just Being Myself didn't sell and was a gigantic flop. No one seemed to be interested in Dionne doing Motown despite some fairly good tunes; the album was an abrupt change fro...

I am not sure that Burt was as minimally involved as believed; I had always thought the opposite based upon the scuttlebutt and my own observations; that Burt was driving the project. Apparently, Hal was the main driver on the project and it's was the last project with their Blujac production compan...

Blair, according to my source in the know who was intimately involved in the process of coordinating things between Bacharach, Warwick and David and whom I have spoken with several times before on this topic states that the tunes Mills recorded were definitely written for Dionne Warwick's followup t...

Bruce, I hope this is so but I have my doubts. I am going to make a very harsh assessment of the likelihood of this project ever coming about and will give an example of the kind of things that happen around Warwick these days. Her son Damon seems to be quite the self-promoter to say the least and I...

I can recall a story demonstrating Dionne and Bill Elliott's stormy and volatile relationship. 1969, Dee Dee Warwick's career looked as though it was about to catch fire and she was being interviewed by a major Hartford newspaper. Dee Dee arranged for the visit to occur at her parent's home in East ...

Face, yes it is very true that Warwick pursued Elliott and very intently. She had to have him. He was a drummer and they met in 1965. It is also true that she was very aware that he was pursued by other women and playing the field but she had to have him anyway. You also hit on something here about ...