Another great song that sounds like Bacharach

[grooverider]

Dear Blair, Karen Phillip co-wrote (with Artie Butler) one of my favorite songs, "I Didn't Mean to Love You". She was also a vocalist in Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77.

Helen Reddy's version:



Dionne Warwick's version:

[Blair N. Cummings]

That`s a lovely song and could have been recorded with Mendes. I knew she lasted with the group until Gracinha Laporael/Laporace (imported from the Mendes-sponsored Bossa Rio) replaced her but what happened after that?

[geoff85]

And these...

Wait didnt Sergio Mendes and Antonio Carlos Joabim influence Burt and the rest of the Brill Building? So its more that Burt sounds like them than the other way around. Right?

[Blair N. Cummings]

I thibk that we should retire this thread...but not before I post these tracks by Brasil`s greatest song-writer, Milton Nascimento:

[geoff85]

I thibk that we should retire this thread...but not before I post these tracks by Brasil`s greatest song-writer, Milton Nascimento:

Nonsense this thread should never be retired. If we cant get Bacharach then at least we can appreciate a sound alike.

[Djalma Junior]

"Go Away Little Girl" performed by Donny Osmond in 1971.

(song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King)

Chords and musical arrangement of this song have much similarity with some songs of Burt Bacharach.

Note: The voice of Donny Osmond, with 14-year-old is much like the voice of Michael Jackson was a member of "The Jackson 5".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLUuWl8oMFE

[Hank]

Doesn't exactly sound like Bacharach but almost an Ennio Morricone / Burt hybrid ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqmlhbhNeIw

[blueonblue]

"Sonny"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ2RLn0KThg

[Blair N. Cummings]

That`s really pretty and one of the few contributions (including my own) to this over-stuffed thread that actually belong here. Thanks.

[Martin Johnson]

Yes, I still think the three best examples of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery posted on this thread came courtesy of three English composers who all admitted to being under Bacharach's spell during the 60s, namely Tony Hatch and 'Where Are You Now', Chris Andrews and 'Girl Don't Come' and Les Reed's 'If We Lived on Top of a Mountain'. So good are these I'm pretty certain BB would have been proud to have written them. Here's Cleo Laine with the beautiful Les Reed/Barry Mason song:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kDlPfVtllVs

[pljms]

Before I heard it sung, Martin, I knew 'if we Lived on top of a Mountain' through a recording by Doc Severinsen playing flugal-horn, with the inevitable result.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HL49Rp6xERk

[grooverider]

A beauty from the late Nicolette Larson, "Just Say I Love You":

https://youtu.be/wqoZN9lrsiw

She left us way too early, a one of a kind voice.
Love the varying shifts in tempo, sort of stop-start, I can only imagine what a full album with Burt Bacharach might have been like.
She gave us a taste with the selection from the "Arthur" soundtrack.
She left us way too early, a one of a kind voice.

[hereiam]

This is by a Karen Carpenter tribute singer called Laurie ..
Very beautiful song ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSfyU0GQBm0

and I think it is as good as Bacharach's best moments..

[geoff85]

"Go Away Little Girl" performed by Donny Osmond in 1971.

(song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King)

Chords and musical arrangement of this song have much similarity with some songs of Burt Bacharach.

Note: The voice of Donny Osmond, with 14-year-old is much like the voice of Michael Jackson was a member of "The Jackson 5".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLUuWl8oMFE

Has a faux 2/4 time and reminds me of everybodys outta town.

[geoff85]

Doesn't exactly sound like Bacharach but almost an Ennio Morricone / Burt hybrid ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqmlhbhNeIw

Hank honestly it sounds like neither but it was extremely beautiful. If anything it reminds me of the Sedaka penned Working on a groovy thing for the fifth dimension.