What The World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook In Concert

[pljms]

Here's a review of the show in LA and it's surprising just how many songs Todd Rundgren gets to perform, including two or three I just wouldn't have expected.
https://variety.com/2025/music/concert- ... 236347936/

Paul, thanks for posting that great Variety review. Just one small query, 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' was composed by Film composer Pino Donaggio so I wonder if it was included as a tribute to Dusty Springfield ?

'blue'

blue, I'm assuming whoever compiled the setlist for the Variety review 'boobed' regarding the inclusion of that non-Bacharach song.

[Blair N. Cummings]

Well, the clips indicate that everyone acquitted themselves well enough (although I still think Todd should hang it up), but a program "deep in the catalog" it certainly wasn`t. Maybe it was revelatory for newcomers to Burt`s music, but for the rest of us, I think the Variety reviewer`s reaction to one overexposed hit will serve as any old-timer`s response to each: we`ve "probably heard that song enough in a lifetime."
And, parenthetically, the instrumental identified as "the ABC Monday Night Movie theme" was actually used for that network`s Tuesday night movie broadcast and it was "Nikki."

[blueonblue]

Well, the clips indicate that everyone acquitted themselves well enough (although I still think Todd should hang it up), but a program "deep in the catalog" it certainly wasn`t. Maybe it was revelatory for newcomers to Burt`s music, but for the rest of us, I think the Variety reviewer`s reaction to one overexposed hit will serve as any old-timer`s response to each: we`ve "probably heard that song enough in a lifetime."
And, parenthetically, the instrumental identified as "the ABC Monday Night Movie theme" was actually used for that network`s Tuesday night movie broadcast and it was "Nikki."

'blue'

[pljms]

Checking the setlist for the LA show published in setlist.fm it corroborated the list in the Variety review and so it seems that the inclusion of 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' wasn't an error and it was indeed performed in the show. The inclusion of a non-Bacharach song in a tribute show to the composer is especially inexplicable when you consider the complete absence from the setlist of genuine classics like 'Wives And Lovers', 'Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa', 'Don't Make Me Over' and 'Wishing And Hoping'.

[blueonblue]

Checking the setlist for the LA show published in setlist.fm it corroborated the list in the Variety review and so it seems that the inclusion of 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' wasn't an error and it was indeed performed in the show. The inclusion of a non-Bacharach song in a tribute show to the composer is especially inexplicable when you consider the complete absence from the setlist of genuine classics like 'Wives And Lovers', 'Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa', 'Don't Make Me Over' and 'Wishing And Hoping'.

Paul, I agree....seems rather strange ?

'blue'