The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

CIlearly the instrumental is Bacharach. Who is the original singer of the original song?

The original singer was Jerry Orbach.

It`s from the Promises, Promises score.
Your youth is still betraying you.

Easy on me blair im but only a babe.seeking the wisdom of the elders.

I`m just giving you shit, Geoff.
I`m delighted that someone your age not only loves Bacharach but is doing the homework, too.
I can`t recall how many of your generation I have utterly failed to spark a similar interest in. Male, female, black, white: they just either couldn`t really "hear" it or found it too alien to their taste.

Blair N. Cummings wrote:I`m just giving you shit, Geoff.
I`m delighted that someone your age not only loves Bacharach but is doing the homework, too.
I can`t recall how many of your generation I have utterly failed to spark a similar interest in. Male, female, black, white: they just either couldn`t really "hear" it or found it too alien to their taste.

No way for me!!!! Bacharach has permeated my whole being down to the cells. It is alien to me how someone could not love the music created by this genius and his comtemporaries many of whom he influenced. Even this remote little well known song two flights up I knew nothing of it but heard those signature Bacharach chords and arrangement and I was hooked. I will dedicate the rest of my life to knowing everyone of his songs. I think it is such a pity him and Hal fell out in the early 70's. Thats so much time wasted that we could have been treated to more lovable music. Even though he did work with other writers in the 80s there is something special about his work with Hal and Dionne that belongs in the epics of time.

There are a number of multi-disc compilations of early songs you may want to grab for posterity`s sake but be warned: most of the songs therein DO NOT sound like Burt`s mature compositions.
Here are three that Do:

This is the song that made an auteurist of me. It was only a minor hit but did get substantial airplay despite raising some eyebrows over having a pre-pubescent girl sing what is essentially just a fuck song (LOL)

I can`t say I remember this one, but it certainly was a harbinger of things to come.

This, too went by me (and everyone else) at the time, but hear that distinctive sound for yourself.

Just listened to it.

Blair N. Cummings wrote:There are a number of multi-disc compilations of early songs you may want to grab for posterity`s sake but be warned: most of the songs therein DO NOT sound like Burt`s mature compositions.
Here are three that Do:

This is the song that made an auteurist of me. It was only a minor hit but did get substantial airplay despite raising some eyebrows over having a pre-pubescent girl sing what is essentially just a fuck song (LOL)

I can`t say I remember this one, but it certainly was a harbinger of things to come.

This, too went by me (and everyone else) at the time, but hear that distinctive sound for yourself.

The first two clearly skund like bacharach to me. The first one sounds like pre bossa,nova era. The second one has a casino royale/ pussyvat sound. The third one is a cool song but doesnt sound bacharachish I guess,because the instrumental is stable n simple. I would peg it as a goffin king song I guess. Thanks for sharing.

If you thought that "Joanie`s Forever" sounded like Goffin/King, here`s one of theirs you may find more Bacharach-ish (or maybe more like early Todd Rundgren):

Blair N. Cummings wrote:If you thought that "Joanie`s Forever" sounded like Goffin/King, here`s one of theirs you may find more Bacharach-ish (or maybe more like early Todd Rundgren):

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Carole is amazing. Never heard thjs before. Is.tbis.goffin king tho? It sounds like tapestry erq which by then her she was,no longer writing with her husband exclusively like the early mid sixtiies. Def heard the todd rungren asssociation. I think he listed carole as a major influence next to laurq of course who he worshipped in an artistic seems. If you can send me more goffin king and.brill building songs like that I would be.grateful.

If I didn`t fuck it up, this should be the full album of The City, a studio group consisting of players who would go on to accompany Carole as well as James Taylor et al

Blair N. Cummings wrote:If I didn`t fuck it up, this should be the full album of The City, a studio group consisting of players who would go on to accompany Carole as well as James Taylor et al

Really here the todd rungren influence also reminds me of beach boys lets go away for a while.

Maybe it could be.the.singing voice as.well. what year is.that album from?

Off topic but in another.forum songs that sound like bacharach.I posted a song by brooke benton cqlled do your own thing. The yt poster calimed it was a lieber stoller which I dont hear one bit. My guess would be jimmy webb thqt sounds like a bacharach.

The utterly unheard and unbought The City album was made in (I believe) `69. The lyrics were (I also believe) written by Gerry Goffin.

Blair N. Cummings wrote:The utterly unheard and unbought The City album was made in (I believe) `69. The lyrics were (I also believe) written by Gerry Goffin.

I was right that it sounds tapestrish. Must be produced by lou adler who has bacharach sensibilities.

Do u have any info on the brooke benton song?