He would definitely dig it!
I hope Burt has seen this...
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Re: I hope Burt has seen this...
Quick follow-up. Here's a sample of the lone (?) Burt-Hal cover by Mr. Basie and singer Joe Williams. I've also included an excerpt from Serene Dominic's terrific reporting on this obscure song.
>Of all the obscure Bacharach-David ’50s-era recordings, “That Kind of Woman” easily stands alongside their best-known works. But it’s one Burt Bacharach can’t stand listening to, and his annoyance at how it was handled still rankles 42 years after the fact.
“I ran into things with A&R men, when they’d say, ‘Well, I’ll give you the record of that song, but first you’ve got to change this from a three-bar phrase to a four-bar phrase. Then it will make sense.’ And it would ruin the song, y’know? ‘That Kind of Woman’ was a song that got recorded by Joe Williams and the Count Basie band.”
It’s still quite a beautiful song, though.
“It would’ve been better,” he interjects, “if they’d left it alone. Nobody else ever recorded it. And nobody else ever will.”
>Of all the obscure Bacharach-David ’50s-era recordings, “That Kind of Woman” easily stands alongside their best-known works. But it’s one Burt Bacharach can’t stand listening to, and his annoyance at how it was handled still rankles 42 years after the fact.
“I ran into things with A&R men, when they’d say, ‘Well, I’ll give you the record of that song, but first you’ve got to change this from a three-bar phrase to a four-bar phrase. Then it will make sense.’ And it would ruin the song, y’know? ‘That Kind of Woman’ was a song that got recorded by Joe Williams and the Count Basie band.”
It’s still quite a beautiful song, though.
“It would’ve been better,” he interjects, “if they’d left it alone. Nobody else ever recorded it. And nobody else ever will.”