The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

(They Long To Be) Close To You by Traincha (Trijntje Oosterjuis) and Grzegorz Turnau:

Here's Little Anthony & the Imperials, (without lead vocals from Little Anthony) "Walk On By":

Ken, check out Ebay prices for their first album, from 1968, on A & M. Look at those prices! And to answer your question, "yes". Blair, I think for now, the 2012 cd will be Japan-only release, hence the larger digits! This group never had a large US following, minimal output, wonder ho...

Blair,
Track listing:
Show Your Love, We've Only Just Begun, Girl With A Complicated Heart, Take Me Home, The One World of You and Me, Something From Paradise, My Heart Is Home, the Moon is Red, Everything But You, Christmas Is My favorite Time of Year,
Feels Good To Be Bad Again.

Blair, This is from their 2012 Japanese-only cd, "My Heart Is Home". They have released, since reforming, two cd's, "My Heart Is Home" and from 2008, "Full Circle" available on UK's Now Sounds/Cherry Red label. Yes, they are still Murray MacLeod, Melinda MacLeod Patters...

A classic voice, Martha Reeves (without the Vandellas!), "I've Got to Use My Imagination":



Produced by Richard Perry, co-written with Barry Goldberg.

A huge talent and with the Broadway musical, "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" bringing interest anew in the many classics he gave us, here's Billy Joel singing "Hey Girl":

From his tv show (in 1969), here's Andy Williams with a medley of songs, including "Baby It's You", though he never recorded it for any album, in 1969 the group Smith had a #5 US hit.
Here's "Baby It's You/Since I Fell For You/If I Ruled The World":

When I started thinking of songs, my mind automatically went to "lyrics by Hal David"...is this more about Mr. David's glorious lyrics? Don't know why I thought that??
"You'll always be the one thing I'm certain of"... "Here I Am":

Here's "In Between The Heartaches", with Burt Bacharach on piano:

Dear geoff85, From 1996, a Burt Bacharach & John Bettis (who wrote many classics for the Carpenters) song, produced by the great Phil Ramone, the background vocalists (Alexandra Brown, Warren Wiebe, Carmen Twillie and Monalisa Young - I mention them by name because the interplay between their vo...

A memorable melody, lyrics and performance, Miss Shirley Horn (with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra, arranged by the great Johnny Mandel), "Here's To Life":

Jerry Vale passed away in Palm Desert, CA, 83 years old. He recorded many Bacharach-David songs (including "Promises, Promises", "The Look Of Love", "This Guy's In Love With You") and this one, "Make It Easy On Yourself":

geoff85,
Here's a version of Carly Simon's "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", a duet by Jack Jones and (his real life lady, at that time) actor Susan George:

Sounds like early Bacharach-David, "Rumors" by Johnny Crawford":



"Rumors" hit #12 in 1962 in USA, capitalizing on Mr. Crawford's co-starring status as Chuck Conners' son on the tv show "The Rifleman".