Hearing the news that Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul And Mary fame had passed away a few days ago reminded me that he was the featured vocalist on 'The Young Grow Younger Every Day' from Bacharach's 'Futures' album. Although the song contains one killer Bacharahian chord change in the verses I've always been slightly disconcerted by the first line of the chorus and its musical similarity to "Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?" from 'Auld Lang Syne'. It was probably the first time I'd heard anything composed by Burt which was in any way derivative of another work, although as it turned out it wouldn't be the last.
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