RIP Burt Bacharach

[splott parker]

Re: RIP Burt Bacharach

R.I.P Burt.

So many great acts covered his songs, but I especially love the ones covered by Dusty Springfield and Dionne Warwick

Together with lyricist Hal David they wrote some of the greatest songs ever. I'd go as far as saying they were the greatest pair of writers together of all time and no one comes close. Or ever will

Forget Lennon and McCartney, this pair were the real McCoy

Your last sentence is pushing it a bit!!!!!

[G rangetown Blue]

Re: RIP Burt Bacharach

A few years ago, my father in law was invited to attend the Horse Racing Hall of Fame ceremony in Saratoga. He typically got there really early, and they were still setting up the hall….including sound checking. When they’d finished he shouts out…hey, I didn’t know you could play the piano….that’s pretty good! He thought it was a horse trainer friend of his, ‘tinkling’ the ivories. It was in fact Burt Bacharach, (he is a racehorse owner), who had been invited to play there! The band all fell about laughing, Burt saw the funny side of it too, and came over to introduce himself !
RIP

[Lost Johnny]

Re: RIP Burt Bacharach

I was amazed to find years later that most of the easy listening songs I loved as a kid like Perry Como's Magic Moments, Dionne Warwick's Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Tom Jones' What's New Pussycat?, B.J.Thomas' Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head were all written by him usually in collaboration with lyricist Hal David.

Arguably the greatest songwriter of all time, he certainly belongs in that elite group of composers alongside Lennon/McCartney, Brian Wilson, Jimmy Webb

RIP Burt Bacharach

[life on mars]

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Wrote the greatest song ever in my view and this maybe its best version .

"" I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF
Elvis Costello""

https://youtu.be/oOqU90ZiHKc

Even better https://youtu.be/U5f39Hby0SM


Let's not forget the lyric writer to many of these great songs ? Hal David , Burt was the composer.

[Baloo]

Re: RIP Burt Bacharach

Wrote the greatest song ever in my view and this maybe its best version .

"" I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF
Elvis Costello""

https://youtu.be/oOqU90ZiHKc

Even better https://youtu.be/U5f39Hby0SM


Let's not forget the lyric writer to many of these great songs ? Hal David , Burt was the composer.

Hal wrote some great lyrics. ‘Wives and Lovers’ hasn’t really stood the test of time though.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: RIP Burt Bacharach

RIP to a song writing legend. Hard not to like any Bacharach/David songs, even the ones with the dreadful Cilla Black.

To borrow from Splott Parker in this thread, the last bit of your post is pushing it a bit.

[Whisperer]

Re: RIP Burt Bacharach

56 UK top 40 hits takes some beating I reckon, and I didn't know he wrote Jimmy Radcliffe's Long after tonight is all over which was the last record played at the end of every Wigan Casino All-niter.