The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Singer Jane Morgan was the first female artist to have a Top 40 hit in the US with a Bacharach song and congratulations are in order as today is her 101st birthday. It must be the way the melody and chord progression take an unconventional turning in 'With Open Arms' that really caught my ear back ...

Hank, Tori Holub sang Close To You in the show and I see that she's been getting some very good notices. Among the other songs she performs is this personal favourite.

I'd forgotten how haunting the guitar riff is in Blue Guitar, an early Bacharach & David obscurity and the A-side of Richard Chamberlain's original recording of Close To You. I say 'obscurity' but I see that it peaked just outside Billboard's Top 40 in 1963. I see also that it features a Bachara...

And didn't Gene McDaniels also write one of Roberta Flack's biggest hits?

He's long been a favourite of mine and I remember dancing to his 'Moody Woman' in my clubbing days. Among the many videos of him lip-syncing to his hits on TV in the 60s and 70s I recently stumbled upon one of him singing live with just his brother Billy on guitar. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xget...

I'm surprised Rob Shirakbari's missus Rumer isn't involved, especially given that she once released an album of Bacharach & David songs with him at the helm as the arranger and producer.

No, it's not exactly a big shock that Todd Rundgren should be an admirer of Burt's, it's just the performing aspect that I'm surprised about.

Todd Rundgren's involvement in this show is a bit of a surprise, to say the least.

I was curious as to how their version of 'The Highwayman' sounded and was surprised to discover that Ashley Campbell sings it rather than Thor Jensen.

As impressions go I'd say that they were more approximate than accurate.

Jack Jones Sings Michel Legrand is an LP that's been played a lot in our household and I've never heard him sound better. The way he sings the line "I will love no more" at the end of his rendition of 'I Will Say Goodbye' gets me every time. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AtESeKNroLM&pp...

Dr John's attractive piano piece Pretty Libby was written for Libby Titus and it's included on his album Dr John Plays Mac Rebbenack Vol.2.

Tempting though it is to post One Direction's Story Of My Life, I think that the song written by Bernstein, Comden and Green for Wonderful Town and which includes the definite article in the title is of more interest. Although written a few years before the famous Bacharach and David hit with the sa...

I saw Zoot Money play just the once when he guested as part of former Animals organist Alan Price's band at the Bull's Head in Barnes in around 2010 or 2011. That evening Zoot conceded organ playing duties to Price and so played the piano while occasionally lending harmony vocals and just when I was...

Interesting topic and a year before Bacharach and David's musical Promises, Promises opened on Broadway Lynn Anderson had a country hit in the US with a song by the same title, but that's where any similarities end. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KiU5W1pbj4Y&pp=ygUfbHlubiBhbmRlcnNvbiBwcm9taXNlcyB...