The Best of Burt Bacharach

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New Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach Box Set Includes Unreleased Collaborations From Proposed Musical". Stereogum. January 10, 2023 . Retrieved February 11, 2023. Shutt, Mike (February 9, 2023). "The Austin Powers Movies Gave Burt Bacharach A Cheeky Ongoing Tribute To His Musical Prowess". Slash Film . Retrieved February 9, 2023. a b Lohof, Bruce. American Commonplace: Essays on the Popular Culture of the United States, Popular Press (1982).

a b "Daniel Tashian and Burt Bacharach Turn Pop to Their Own Purposes on Blue Umbrella". Nashville Scene. July 30, 2020 . Retrieved March 11, 2021. Promises, Promises [Original Broadway Cast] Review by Jenna Woolford". allmusic.com . Retrieved February 10, 2023. 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]

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" (1969)

In 1956, at the age of 28, Bacharach's productivity increased when composer Peter Matz recommended him to Marlene Dietrich, who needed an arranger and conductor for her nightclub shows. [31] He then became a part-time music director for Dietrich, the actress and singer who had been an international screen star in the 1930s. [32] They toured worldwide off and on until the early 1960s. When they were not touring, he wrote songs. [33] As a result of his collaboration with Dietrich, he gained his first major recognition as a conductor and arranger. [34] [35] Bacharach met the popular singer Vic Damone while they were both serving in the army in Germany. [23] Following his discharge, Bacharach spent the next three years as a pianist and conductor for Damone, who recalled, "Burt was clearly bound to go out on his own. He was an exceptionally talented, classically trained pianist, with very clear ideas on the musicality of songs, how they should be played, and what they should sound like. I appreciated his musical gifts." [29] He later worked in a similar capacity for various other singers, including Polly Bergen, Steve Lawrence, the Ames Brothers, and Paula Stewart (who became his first wife). When he was unable to find better jobs, Bacharach worked at resorts in the Catskill Mountains of New York, where he accompanied singers such as Joel Grey. [30] Bacharach with Marlene Dietrich in Jerusalem, 1960 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: 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] On the Adult Contemporary survey, Bacharach charted four songs as a billed recording act (also all sung by chorus vocalists): “Reach Out for Me” (No. 38 peak, 1967), “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” (No. 18, 1969), “All Kinds of People” (No. 18, 1971) and “Something Big” (No. 50, 1974).

Billington, Michael (July 16, 2015). "What's It All About? review – a clever, passionate reappraisal of Burt Bacharach". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved February 14, 2023. Composer Burt Bacharach dies aged 94". Independent.ie. February 9, 2023 . Retrieved February 17, 2023. 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. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" – Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash& Christopher Stewart (songwriters) (2009)

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a b c Dunbavan, Peter. An Avid's Guide to Sixties Songwriters, AuthorHouse UK, Bloomington, Indiana, 2017, chapter 3. ISBN 978-1-5246-3347-9