RIP Burt Bacharach

[PCLoadLetter]

A pretty astounding run.

 

[garrow]

Indeed. What a career and life. I was always partial to "The Look of Love." RIP.

 

[Songbird]

Back in '98, between newspaper gigs, I was living a spartan lifestyle ... and one night I flip on Vermont Public TV and see a concert of sorts with Burt Bacharach and, of all singers, Sheryl Crow, who was at the height of her powers. The pairing reminded me of a show that was playing in Vegas a few years before that, Mel (Torme) and Nell (Carter).

 

[DanOregon]

Well - Hal David wrote most of his lyrics - but Bacharach's real legend is how "complicated" he made some of his tunes. Say A Little Prayer For You, Do You Know the Way to San Jose?, the time changes, the breaks, -

Sung by or heard by just about everyone over 30 at one point in their life


Might have been the same special where Ben Folds Five did Raindrops... Folds clearly was influenced by Bacharach the way he constructed songs.

 

[The Big Ragu]

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Burt, Hal and Dionne were an unbeatable combination
When I looked this up on Google, it listed Naked Eyes
**** those talentless one hit wonders

 

[I Should Coco]

I didn’t realize he was still alive … but on SJ.com, there is always something there to remind me .,.

RIP to a prolific songwriter.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

His father, Bert, was a syndicated columnist
Used to run in the Free Press

 

[garrow]

Burt, Hal and Dionne were an unbeatable combination
When I looked this up on Google, it listed Naked Eyes
**** those talentless one hit wonders

Talentless? Perhaps. But they had a smash top 20 hit with "Promises, Promises" in October 1983. I'm Garrow Kasem and on with the countdown.....

 

[BTExpress]

Soundtrack of my youth. Always been partial to this one, which I first heard at the end of this kind of goofy but rich-in-eye-candy movie:

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Talentless? Perhaps. But they had a smash top 20 hit with "Promises, Promises" in October 1983. I'm Garrow Kasem and on with the countdown.....

Sorry
Lame version
I can accept I Say A Little Prayer as Aretha’s song but not those ****s
Google listed it as Pharrell Williams and Tori Kelly
Idiots

 

[Huggy]

The recent CNN Warwick bio, Don't Make Me Over, was really good.

 

[HanSenSE]

He'll never fall in love again.

RIP

 

[qtlaw]

That combo with Hal David and BB was an amazing hit machine which lent a comfortable melody to my youth. I bought a 3 Cd set of BB’s songs (before streaming) and it was well worth it for those long drives. Thanks BB.

 

[HanSenSE]

Soundtrack of my youth. Always been partial to this one, which I first heard at the end of this kind of goofy but rich-in-eye-candy movie:

Much like when "Do you know the way to San Jose" came out. Late 60s me loved hearing his hometown in a song, not understanding until later the lyrics had nothing to do with San Jose.

 

[DanOregon]

 

[MTM]

He also owned race horses. And was married to Angie Dickinson

 

[Jake from State Farm]

 

[HanSenSE]

He also owned race horses. And was married to Angie Dickinson

 

[DanOregon]

And the man knew how TO ROCK the turtleneck.