The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Dear blueonblue,

The Bacharach/Jene Miller song, "With A Smile" is from a Japan Nippon Colulmbia Triad cd "Tribute to Burt Bacharach" (1994). Nine tracks: "I'll Nver Fall In Love Again" by 5th Garden, "The Look of Love" by Soul Bossa Trio, "Are You There (With Another Girl)" by Carnation, "Make It Easy On Yourself" by Kyoto Jazz Massive, "Me Japanese Boy" by Pizzicato Five, "Bond Street" by les 5-4-3-2-1, "The April Fools" by The Cozy Corners, "Mulino Blanco"(an instrumental) by Burt Bacharach and "With A Smile".
The cd liner notes give no info about Jene Miller. All of the tracks, except for the two Bacharach ones, give producer and musician credits.

grooverider,
Many thanks for your information very much appreciated.

Here's the Bacharach Instrumental you mentioned, I wonder if that's Burt on backing vocals ?



"blue"

Three versions of "I Say A Little Prayer/By The Time I Get To Phoenix":

Dee Irwin and Mamie Galore (1968):


Glen Campbell & Anne Murray (1971):


Glen Campbell & Dionne Warwick (1986):


Thank you, Blueonblue, for the "Mulino Blanco" link!

Rare Instrumental from Burt's sublime "Woman" album (1979)



"blue"

My favorite Bacharach album. I always offer this as an example to counter the disappointing At This Time.
It`s a real shame this never found an audience and went out of print as soon as it did. The under-rated Isn`t She Great soundtrack suffered a similar fate.

Blair, two of my favourite albums also.
Here's a track from the superb "Isn't She Great" soundtrack.... I love the flugelhorn !



"blue"

I always loved the sly, self-referential bits slipped into these tracks. "Look of Love" is the obvious precedent here, but "Wives and Lovers" is resurrected elsewhere.
There are probably one or two others I can`t recall. Nevertheless, given the usual drawbacks of OST recordings (repetitions, snippets of not-quite-compositions), this was a return to form quite as satisfying as the near-contemporary Painted from Memory.
We`ve heard nothing comparable since and I doubt that we will.

I hear Bacharach's "influence" very strongly on this track.....



"blue"

Peggy Lipton (those of a certain age will remember her as Julie Barnes on "The Mod Squad", she married Quincy Jones, she appparently was the "inspiration" for the Michael Jackson song "PYT" on Thriller!!) singing "Wanting Things":

Great

Bye

Bob

Tom talks about "that song"........



That song.......



"blue"

Smart students! Good to see!

Enormous,
Great to hear Burt's music is still knocking 'em dead after all these years !
It's wonderful to see young people admiring the songs of Bacharach and David.

"blue"

blueonblue wrote:Enormous,
Great to hear Burt's music is still knocking 'em dead after all these years !
It's wonderful to see young people admiring the songs of Bacharach and David.

"blue"

So very true, blue. Based on the (mostly) horrible pop songs that make it big these days, I figured that an appreciation by young people of great songwriting has gone out the window. So it's great to see that some young people can appreciate the difference between great songs and the (mostly) drivel that's being written these days.

Straight out of "Burt's Book Of Trumpets" lol



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