Burt Bacharach won the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album for At This Time tonight at the 48th annual Grammy Awards
. It was Burt’s sixth Grammy Award. In addition, Aretha Franklin picked up the award for Best Traditional R&B Performance for her recording of Burt’s “A House Is Not A Home” on So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross. Congratulations, Burt!
This just in…new Bacharach tour dates for 2006.
Congratulations to Burt! Burt Bacharach received two Grammy Award nominations yesterday. Burt was nominated in the Best Pop Instrumental Performance Category for “In Our Time,” a collaboration with Chris Botti, and in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category for At This Time, his new CD. In addition, two performances of Bacharach compositions also received Grammy nominations: Seal’s recording of Walk On By was nominated in the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance category and Aretha Franklin’s performance of “A House Is Not A Home” from the album So Amazing: An All Star Tribute to Luther Vandross was nominated in the Best Traditional R&B Performance category. The 48th annual Grammy Awards will take place on Feb. 8, 2006, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS.
Burt Bacharach will appear on The Tavis Smiley Show this Friday night, Nov. 11. The show airs nati onally
on PBS stations. Check your local listings for time. Also, for you diehard album aficionados, a special limited vinyl edition of At This Time can now be purchased at the online Sony Music Store.
Today is the day!
At This Time, Burt Bacharach’s highly anticipated new album, officially goes on sale in the U.S. Visit the Media page to read a few reviews and some recent articles about this controversial new album. Visit the Lyrics archive to see At This Time’s lyrics, the first ever written by Bacharach himself.
Today is the offical U.K. release date of At This Time, Burt Bacharach’s latest release and his first solo album of new material since 1979.
I’ve added a page of At This Time lyrics, the first ever written by Bacharach.
I’ve updated the media section with links to recent articles about Burt and At This Time.
Burt Bacharach and Rufus Wainwright are scheduled to appear on the BBC2 talk show Later with Jools Holland this Friday night, Oct.
21, at 11:30 p.m. Wainwright provides guest vocals on the track “Go Ask Shakespeare” from Bacharach’s new CD At This Time, scheduled to be released by Columbia on Oct. 31.
Richard and Judy, a British television program, is searching for UK Bacharach fans in conjunction with an appearance by Burt on the show next week.
Interested UK fans should contact Lucinda Barker at 020-7091-4770 or email Richard&Judy@channel4.com.