The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Correction: The correct title of this album is SOGNI PROIBITI by Ornella Vanoni, 2002.

I'm am currently dazzled by the album SOGNI PROBITI , the 2002 anthology of BB/HD hits, sung in Italian by veteran pop singer, Ornella Vanoni. :D Vanoni has a smoky, laid-back sprech-stimme not unlike that of Dionne Warwick's. Her vibrato, especially, can be remarkably similar to Dionne's at times. ...

I need one of our Italian friends on this forum to print out a lyric here, if he would be so kind. I'm looking for the Italian lyric to "Non Mi Innamoro Più" ["I'll Never Fall In Love Again"] I am currently very pleased with listening to Ornella Vanoni's interpretations of BB/HD...

I think some Barry Gibb and Bee Gee's in the mid-70's is strongly Bacharach-flavored. Especially a song like "Guilty", a hit for Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb. This song has the meter shifts and unusual chordal leaps that BB is famous for. I always thought that the song "After The ...