Tony Hatch 'Britain's Burt Bacharach' is 70 today

[steveo_1965]

PLus it has that "accented" triplet figure on the words "Where Are YOu NOw".........
Teddy Randazzo,Burt, and early Jim Webb(and me, of course, based on them) uses those Triplet Rhythms.
In case you don't know the rhythm Im talking about, listen to the piano solo of Reach Out
For Me (Burts Instrumental version) at the end where the piano does a solo...then goes
DAht Dot Dot Dot Dot....Daht Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot...or "please Dont go please Dont go(Hurt SO Bad)Teddy Randazzo) I don't know if it was used first by Burt Or Composer Teddy Randazzo...
At any rate, Tony Hatch is an amazing composer, and truly inspiring.Tony, thank you for all the great music you have written throughout the years!

[pljms]

If you live in the UK and own a TV you'll no doubt by now be familiar with a remarkably catchy song that accompanies a BBC ad for the television license. It's called 'Push a Little Button' and was a single in 1966 for a young lady called Ninette. The real fascinating fact is that not only was the song written by Tony Hatch, both words and music, Ninette is in fact his sister. The full song with an ingenious video is now on Youtube:

[Sara D]

Yes, this seemingly innocent song has attracted a lot of interest since the ad started. Two things betray the Hatch imprint, firstly the song's similarity to the earlier Searches hit 'Sugar and Spice', which he wrote under the name Fred Nightingale, and the short instrumental break at the end of each verse which has the extended chords one comes to expect from 'Britain's Burt Bacharach'.