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SINGER PRESENTS: BURT BACHARACH {THE BURT BACHARACH SPECIAL} {TOM JONES, BARBRA STREISAND} (TV)". Paley Center For Media. Gallo, Phil (April 14, 1998). "Bacharach: One Amazing Night". Variety . Retrieved February 17, 2023. Mossman, Kate (July 18, 2013), "Burt Bacharach is a direct line to a lost musical world", New Statesman. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Howard Shore, John Kurlander (engineer/mixer) & Peter Cobbin (engineer/mixer) (2004) Clevenger, Andrew (Spring 2003). "Director Scott Ellis and Look of Love collaborator, David Thompson, discuss the intricacies of creating a musical from Burt Bacharach and Hal David's greatest hits". Roundabout Theatre Company. Archived from the original on August 15, 2003.
The year 1969 marked, perhaps, the most successful Bacharach-David collaboration, the Oscar-winning " Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", written for and prominently featured in the acclaimed film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The two were also awarded a Grammy for Best Cast album of the year for Promises, Promises; the score was nominated for a Tony Award, as well. [54] [55] An exceptionally gifted pianist and a sumptuous arranger, Bacharach wrote a mind-boggling number of classics and narrowing them down to a dozen best is a fool’s errand —even the briefest comprehensive “greatest hits” collections have around 50, and he wrote more than 100 with David alone and even more with others across a 70-plus-year career. What follows below aren’t necessarily his biggest hits or his best songs or even his many perfect pop songs (except for one at the end), but rather 12 stellar examples, among many, that illustrate his genius.
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Viglione, Joe. "Sometimes Late at Night Review by Joe Viglione". allmusic . Retrieved August 22, 2023. Hernandez, Ernio (May 4, 2003). "What the World Needs Now: The Look of Love Opens on Broadway, May 4". Playbill . Retrieved June 29, 2022. Bacharach also suggested in interviews he gave to promote his autobiography that he and David were out of inspiration by the time they stopped working together. Discussing the breakup of their artistic partnership in a 2013 interview with author Mitch Albom, Bacharach said:
Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen& Paul Hewson (songwriters) (2005) Burt Bacharach would continue to release albums and have his songs recorded all through the 1970s, 80s, and onward. He continued to have multiple modern day hits scoring big with Arthur’s Theme and the huge 1985 hit “That’s What Friends Are For.” One of his later day great projects was an album of new songs he recorded and wrote with Elvis Costello in 1998 entitled Painted from Memory. The album won a Grammy Award . The two reunited in 2018 and wrote three new songs together that appeared on Elvis Costello’s new album. Onofrio, Jan (January 1999). Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary. Somerset Publishers. ISBN 9780403099504 . Retrieved February 20, 2013– via Google Books. a b Musiker, Naomi, and Musiker, Reuben. Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music, Routledge (1998), ebook.We realized we were more than just friends. We were family. Time has a way of giving people the opportunity to grow and understand ... Working with Burt is not a bit different from how it used to be. He expects me to deliver and I can. He knows what I'm going to do before I do it, and the same with me. That's how intertwined we've been. [72] [6] Bacharach released his first solo album in 1965 on the Kapp Records label. Hit Maker!: Burt Bacharach Plays the Burt Bacharach Hits was largely ignored in the U.S. but rose to No. 3 on the UK album charts, where his version of " Trains and Boats and Planes" had become a top five single. In 1967, he signed with A&M Records both as an artist and a producer, recording several solo albums (all consisting in a mix of new material and rearrangements of his best-known songs) until 1978. [49] Farina, William (2013). The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-6863-8.
In 1971, Barbra Streisand appeared on the special Singer Presents Burt Bacharach, where they discussed their careers and favorite songs and performed songs together. [60] [61] The other guests on the television special were dancers Rudolph Nureyev and Bettie de Jong, and singer Tom Jones. [62] [63]
Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bacharach continued to write and produce for artists, compose for stage, TV, and film, and release his own albums. He enjoyed a great deal of visibility in the public spotlight, appearing frequently on TV and performing live in concert. Between November 1969 and January 1974, Bacharach and his music were the focus of nine U.S. network television specials, including five on NBC, three on ABC, and one on CBS. [58] Newsweek magazine gave him a lengthy cover story entitled "The Music Man 1970". [59] In July 2020, Bacharach collaborated with songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Tashian on the EP Blue Umbrella, Bacharach's first new material in 15 years. [97] It earned Bacharach and Tashian a Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. [98] Karima | Video, musica e news | MTV Italia". www.mtv.it. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020 . Retrieved December 29, 2020.
Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94". KCAL. February 9, 2023 . Retrieved February 9, 2023. It was all my fault, and I can't imagine how many great songs I could have written with Hal in the years we were apart. So I now know that on every level, it was a very bad mistake." [64] Find sources: "Burt Bacharach"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( February 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Dominic, Serene. Burt Bacharach Song By Song: The ultimate Burt Bacharach reference for fans, serious record collectors, and music critics, Schirmer Trade Books, 2010, section: "Bacharach Network TV Specials" ISBN 978-0-85712-259-9 Bacharach married his fourth wife, Jane Hansen, in 1993. They had two children, son Oliver, born the year before their marriage, and daughter Raleigh, born in 1995. [33]Aguila, Justino (September 17, 2018). "Burt Bacharach and Rudy Perez pen Live to See Another Day for School Gun Violence Survivors". Billboard . Retrieved April 4, 2019. Reed, Rex. "Special TV Specials: An Evening with Doris Day and Burt Bacharach", Chicago Tribune, March 14, 1971. Zwerin, Michael. "Burt Bacharach Behind the Scenes During the Out-of-Town Tryout of Promises, Promises," Playbill, January 1969. Retrieved February 9, 2023. Vincent Terrace (June 19, 2013). "On the Flip Side". Television Specials: 5,336 Entertainment Programs, 1936-2012, 2d Ed. McFarland & Company. p.286. ISBN 9780786474448. a b Browne, David (September 30, 1998). "Painted from Memory". EW.com . Retrieved February 14, 2023.