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- Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:00 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Songs of Bacharach & Costello 4-album collection in 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17399
Re: Songs of Bacharach & Costello 4-album collection in 2023
I`m still glad that there was never a stage musical. And I don`t think that it was the "melancholic" nature of many of the songs. After all, `Carousel` was hardly a yuk-fest and `South Pacific` featured a heart-breaking tragedy. It was, I think, the relentless nature of the bummer leading ...
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 8:21 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Carole King article and other tributes to Bacharach
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12794
Re: Carole King article and other tributes to Bacharach
I seem to recall that Carole posted once or twice here under a pseudonym before being thoughtlessly outed by someone.
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 7:03 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Excellent Evaluation
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6310
- Sat Feb 11, 2023 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Still Unreleased
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2897
Still Unreleased
It`s true, David B., that there will be no new songs but there were two nearly completed with Tashian that he plans to finish, the abandoned `Snow White` score, as well as that for `New York Animals`. Whether any demos exist for the shows is unknown to me, but there must be plans to examine the &quo...
- Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:57 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Thanks For Everything
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16030
Re: Thanks for everything.
Words fail.
Except for those comprising this forum which, for all of the occasional contentiousness, will remain a major testimony to the effect his music had on so many.
Except for those comprising this forum which, for all of the occasional contentiousness, will remain a major testimony to the effect his music had on so many.
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:35 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Do You Know the Way to San Jose Cover Search
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4353
Re: Do You Know the Way to San Jose Cover Search
Paul, My recollection is that it was at Carole`s insistence that Burt rid his melodies of the eccentricities that actually defined them in order to re- appear on the charts in a less adventurous musical era. Again, my memories may be faulty but I recall her appraisal of PFM as less laudatory and mor...
- Mon Jan 23, 2023 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Simon Napier-Bell on Burt / What's New Pussycat
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2938
Re: Simon Napier-Bell on Burt / What's New Pussycat
So, Burt didn`t compose his score for the allotted times in the movie, as he did for `Butch Cassidy...`? He just dumped pieces of music and went home, leaving Napier-Bell to do what, exactly? Edit Burt`s compositions? Re-configure them? And Burt was okay with this? The story is interesting but parti...
- Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:38 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt in LA next month
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5573
Re: Burt in LA next month
This event still puzzles me. Assuming that the A&M label was not re-launched, that neither Burt nor Sergio Mendes was there, and that for some arcane reason Dionne was...WTF? Did this make any sense to anyone there? Not that Jerry doesn`t deserve credit for his accomplishments, but neither he no...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 8:28 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: R.I.P.—Thom Bell
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3716
Re: R.I.P.—Thom Bell
Bell was also one of those writers who generously agreed to collaborate with the stunning "should-have-been", Nikki Jean:
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:01 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Burt in LA next month
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5573
Re: Burt in LA next month
Better late than never, I suppose, but this seems awfully late. For how many decades has the entire A&M catalogue been secreted in a bomb-resistant bunker? And why just Jerry? And what happened to Sergio Mendes? And why Dionne, whose sole recording for the label was the singing of the last line ...
- Wed Dec 07, 2022 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Songs of Bacharach & Costello 4-album collection in 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17399
Re: Songs of Bacharach & Costello 4-album collection in 2023
And I hope he "autographs" it using the same scam that "Dylan" used - the slimeball:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/arts ... ature.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/arts ... ature.html
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:32 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Lost Horizon demos
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3376
Re: Lost Horizon demos
These are gems. They were once available as a bootleg and I grabbed them then.
There also exists (although I`ve never heard) an "unauthorised" recording of the now-forgotten `New York Animals` score.
Last, did the `Snow White` songs ever reach the demo stage?
There also exists (although I`ve never heard) an "unauthorised" recording of the now-forgotten `New York Animals` score.
Last, did the `Snow White` songs ever reach the demo stage?
- Sun Nov 20, 2022 12:19 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Bob Dylan
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10876
Re: Bob Dylan
It must be another example of the ineffable genius of Bobby Zimmerman that enables him to detect in a song all the flaws that he also concedes have been successfully concealed.
- Sun Nov 20, 2022 6:56 am
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Bob Dylan
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10876
Re: Bob Dylan
One of the more enduring mysteries of popular culture (to me, anyway) is why people continue to lend any sort of credibility at all to this foul mediocrity. I first posted the following many years ago and again when "Dylan" was awarded the Nobel Prize. I still wouldn`t change a word: Bob &...
- Mon Oct 31, 2022 1:37 pm
- Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
- Topic: Garage sale treasure !
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4945
Re: Garage sale treasure !
Steve, that`s very interesting news to me. I, too, had always assumed that there was an "official" copy of the composition that I also assumed was written or blessed by the composer.
Never too old to learn.
Never too old to learn.