The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Enormous, you're very welcome.
Incidentally, Akira Fuse was once married to Olivia Hussey who starred in "Lost Horizon"

"blue"

Saturday Sunshine: (Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra)



To Wait For Love: (Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra)



Paper Maché: (Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra)



The Green Grass Starts To Grow: (Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra)



Do You Know The Way To San José?: (Baja Marimba Band)



Are You There (With Another Girl)?: (Burt's version)



Don't Go Breaking My Heart: (Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass)



Saturday Sunshine: (Burt's version)



Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do): (Acker Bilk)

"Something That Was Beautiful" (Mario Biondi)



"Close To You" (Mario Biondi)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY3EK55XC-Q

Continuing my (justified) Minnie Riperton obsession.....

Enormous,
It's great to hear some of the lesser-know Bacharach pieces being played for a change !
"Grapes Of Wroth" from "Promises, Promises" and an excerpt from "South American Getaway"..........superb !

Thanks for sharing !
"blue"

blueonblue,

It's my pleasure to share this. And I thought the same thing -- how great it was (and kind of unbelievable) that they were playing the unknown and fantastically superb "Grapes of Roth". I actually did a double-take when it started! I also wondered where they got the charts because they did a great job with it. Imagine that all of Burt's compositions were a pie. Most people are eating only a small piece. I feel like saying to them: "Eat the rest already, there's so much there!!!" So I'm glad that this orchestra is eating more of the pie!

Alfie - Kenny G and Burt

Theme from The Apartment
(The Key To Love)



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Airport Love Theme



I overheard this yesterday as part of an attachment to a message my wife recieved by e-mail. I wanted to listen to it again, and so I did. The way it is set up to pickup steam, and such beautiful piano and violin voices...
Vincent Bell had a version of Nikki that I used to like a lot. Haven't listened to it in many years, so am not even sure I would find it that beautiful.

Great Burt Bacharach



bye Rob

One of the great movie themes ever composed!

Ya know, I always thought Herb Alpert complimented Burt Bacharach's music very well. That song is on one of his greatest hits albums. I used to like to listen to it while I was driving around.

This just appeared on YouTube a few days ago. Rick Nelson & Joanie Sommers singing "Try to See it My Way" from " On the Flip Side."

Here's an "oddity"..........Burt, Tom Jones and "Raindrops"....in a Welsh "pub" ???
........but somehow it works !


"blue"
PS
When is somebody finally going to release all those great seventies Bacharach TV "Specials"
on DVD ???