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Burt Bacharach: Burt Bacharach A&M Records SP-3501 Released 1971 A1: Mexican Divorce 3:07 A2: (They Long To Be) Close To You 3:14 A3: Nikki 2:25 A4: Wives & Lovers 6:02 A5: All Kinds Of People 3:05 B1: "And The People Were With Her" (Suite For Orchestra) 5:59 B2: April Fools...

I just noticed that A&M (via UMe) has digitally reissued a set similar to the Something Big: The Complete A&M Years box set. It looks like it was released March 24, 2023 to all the digital streaming/download platforms. Burt Bacharach: The A&M Years...And More! The track list looks to be the...

Forgive me if we've already covered this somewhere---I used "search" and couldn't find it---but a friend, posting about Burt on her Facebook page, showed an original "Reach Out" album: And it occurred to me that for years, I've seen it with the title in blue: I'm guessing, with the removal...

While looking through Roon Player yesterday, I came across something under Elvis Costello that caught my eye--a new release entitled The Songs of Bacharach & Costello. Release date is March 3, 2023. A timely release, in an unfortunate way (given Bacharach's passing just a few days ago). The...

There are just so many collections out there. Which one is your favorite? I'm kind of partial to the newer one by Rumor. Feels timeless and contemporary all at once.

Please visit the thread in the main music forum. https://forum.amcorner.com/threads/r-i-p-burt-bacharach.19064/

A.P. reports that Burt Bacharach died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes - he was 94.

Just this afternoon while picking some work music for the queue, I was surprised to see Burt's first three A&M albums released in high-res. (They show up under "Versions" in Roon Player.) These make me question a couple of things. First of all, what were the sources? Were the originals burned...

Burt Bacharach and The Houston Symphony Woman A&M SP-3709 Released 1979 Japan CD: UICY-75218, POCM-2056 Track list: S I D E • O N E Summer of '77 Woman Riverboat - (vocal: Libby Titus) Magdalena S I D E • T W O New York Lady There Is Time - (vocal: Sally Stevens) The Dancing Fool I Live...

My favorite part of this entire show was when Burt shows how he arranged the song "Nikki" in a studio of musicians. A fantastic tutorial from a master orchestrator. The segment starts at 24:05 of the video. "Nikki"--the ABC Movie of the Week theme in the 1970s--was always my favorite of his...

The new animated movie Sing 2 includes a quite nice version of "I Say A Little Prayer" toward the end of the movie. The only irritating thing is, the arrangers have decided to 95% abandon the original melody and use the original chords, but about 37,000 additional notes in the vocals. Besides...

The famous soundtrack LP has bugged me since I bought it in 11th grade: Both Raindrops and Not Goin' Home Anymore are heard three times (oh-so cleverly re-named to fool the LP buyer into believing these were different songs -- and I'm sure A&M deservedly received its fair share of criticism...

Apart from Dionne, here are other recording artists/groups who had great success with Bacharach/David songs: Tom Jones "What's New Pussycat", Jackie De Shannon "What the World Needs Now", Dusty Springfield and Brasil 66 "The Look of Love", BJ Thomas "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head", 5th...

Combining tracks from the set of four Edsel-release Dionne Warwick album compilations (9 discs, 16 albums, plus all bonus tracks), and one track from a Rhino anthology, I was able to compile a playlist of 60 tracks penned by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The bulk are from her Scepter albums...

A friend shared his Collectors' Choice catalogs with me and I found DVDs for Burt Bacharach and Chuck Mangione. www.ccmusic.com

I saw this Japanese compilation ages ago, certainly decades ago, on eBay, and it was always one of the more ridiculously expensive compilations out there. I even recall finding the track list and making a version on cassette for car trips. Well I finally obtained one for a much more reasonable...

Hi all, I'm not sure if I'm the only one who does this, but when I have two songs that are almost identical, but not quite, I sometimes "tinker" to see what the differences are. Here's my process: In Audacity, I normalize the volume and adjust the speed to line them up as well as possible. One...

Hi all, Has any of you seen any photos of Karen & Richard on this important date for them? The only one I know of is this one (also in Ray Coleman's "Untold Story" book, 1st photo section) : Karen & Gary Sims on Feb. 27, 1970 But I'm actually hoping to find any photos of their performance at...

I just saw this video of Burt and The 5th Dimension from 1973. I don't know how I never found this before.

I think it was Ned Nickerson who shared Youtube video from vintage 1971 at Walter Reed army hospital. Last time I visited the site to view the video all comments were turned off. I am wondering if anyone knows why this may have happened? This has been on for quite some time yet comments were...

Stuff is so easy to miss these days. I am working on scenery for a new model train layout, and decided I needed some Bacharach music to soothe my tired nerves, so I first went to YouTube and clicked on what I thought was that best-of compilation that A&M did a hundred years ago, but what I got...

Does anyone know who plays in the orchestra on Burt’s A&M albums. Very curious, especially to know who plays drums.

We had a thread a few years ago on lesser known Burt Bacharach tunes, but this one is about your favorite of ANY Burt Bacharach song no matter who did it. My example is "I Say A Little Prayer". I've got at least seven versions that I really like: Dionne Warwick Aretha Franklin Burt Bacharach...

At 92 years old, you would think most songwriters had retired to enjoy a quiet life. Not Burt Bacharach. On this new five-song EP release, he teams up with Nashville singer/songwriter/producer Daniel Tashian, fresh off his Grammy win for his work with Kacey Musgraves. They found they worked...

Saw this...on youtube.... Cam