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9 de feb. de 2023 · The Grammy and Academy Award winner wrote or co-wrote seven No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in his lifetime, and they reigned in four distinct decades. Here’s a rundown, listed ...
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9 de feb. de 2023 · Burt Bacharach was responsible for some of the greatest pop melodies and love songs of the 20th century. Often working alongside Hal David, 92-year-old Burt was a six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Oscar winner, and his songs have been recorded by over 1,000 different artists.
- Tom Eames
- Make It Easy on Yourself
- Close to You
- Walk on by
- A House Is Not A Home
- My Little Red Book
- I Say A Little Prayer
- This Guy’S in Love with You
- I’ll Never Fall in Love Again
- Arthur’s Theme
- God Give Me Strength
Burt Bacharach’s first hit had come in 1957, with the hokey country ballad The Story of My Life, his first collaboration with lyricist Hal David. The first of the songs that would define him came in 1962, with Tommy Hunt recording I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself, then Jerry Butler tackling Make It Easy on Yourself. The definitive version o...
First recorded by the actor Richard Chamberlain in 1963, but brought to perfection in 1970 by the Carpenters, Close to You highlights one of Bacharach’s preferred tricks – an instrumental melody line that’s jaunty and melancholy. (Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head was practically the same song, and if you prefer your cuts a little deeper, so was Ha...
Most songwriters would be happy to retire after something so perfect as Walk on By, a song versatile enough to have been recorded with equal sincerity and commitment by Isaac Hayes, the Stranglers and Gloria Gaynor. Bacharach was a writer of astonishing sophistication – his songs have chord progressions and melodic shifts so eccentric they bypass f...
The earliest recordings of 1964’s A House Is Not a Home have the undeniable air of musical theatre – you can imagine Warwick on stage as the lonely heroine belting it out. Yet its message about love defining existence was so simple and heartfelt and its melody so indelible that it could be tackled as jazz (Bill Evans), reggae (Sugar Minott), to sho...
Bacharach’s own recording of My Little Red Book (sung by Tony Middleton) is a staggering piece of melodrama, more like something by Jacques Brel than suitable for Don Draper to put on his apartment’s “music center”, dissonant and off kilter. Love interpreted it as straight-ahead garage rock, flattening out Bacharach’s chords and imbuing it with a f...
The next three might be the best pop songs ever written, and in the case of this one, Bacharach and David were definitely served by having Aretha Franklin sing it (if Warwick was the pair’s definitive interpreter, she couldn’t get near Franklin on I Say a Little Prayer). It’s such a supple song, burbling along contentedly as Aretha goes about her d...
Proof that Bacharach’s melodies were strong enough to be carried even by people who couldn’t really sing came when the trumpeter Herb Alpert sighed his way through This Guy’s in Love With You – and sounded perfectly suited to it, like someone wandering through a park in the afternoon sun, unable to believe his good fortune. The song – like Walk on ...
No matter how perfect Bacharach’s melodies, Hal David’s lyrics were sometimes even better – as on I’ll Never Fall in Love Again (Bobbie Gentry’s version is the perfect one, resigned but still hopeful; Warwick’s sounds oddly prissy). Here were words and music in perfect combination – Bacharach’s playful melody pushing David to ever more perfect coup...
Come the 80s, and the rise of AOR, Bacharach’s melodic sensibility was in tune with the times – the grown-up lushness of his work fitted in with FM radio programming – and he seized on it with his co-write of Christopher Cross’s theme to the Dudley Moore movie Arthur. The years had not dimmed Bacharach’s facility for something that left the listene...
With another upswing in Bacharach’s reputation in the second half of the 90s, he teamed up with Elvis Costello for 1998’s Painted from Memory, a truly startling record (you might view it, partly, as Costello’s sequel to Almost Blue, his Nashville album – another exploration of the very heart of American pop). Bacharach could probably write this stu...
9 de feb. de 2023 · Seen by some as his generation’s greatest songwriter, Bacharach teamed up for hits such as ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ and ‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose.’ Feb. 9, 2023
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Burt Bacharach's Greatest Hits. Album • Various Artists • 2018. 55 songs • 2 hours, 27 minutes. Play. Save to library. The Story of My Life. Michael Holliday. 2:17. A House Is Not a Home....
4.4M views • 16 tracks • 50 minutes 2001 Compilation album. Baby It's You. The Shirelles Baby It's You. 2:42. Only Love Can Break A Heart. Gene Pitney Pitney Sings Bacharach. 2:51. Anyone Who Had a Heart. Dionne Warwick The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits.
Burt Bacharach’s Greatest Hits. Playlist • Adriana Pelayo • 2021. 82K views • 11 tracks • 37 minutes. Save to library. I'll Never Fall In Love Again. Burt Bacharach 20th Century...
