The Best of Burt Bacharach

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Promises, Promises [Original Broadway Cast] Review by Jenna Woolford". allmusic.com . Retrieved February 10, 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. Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen& Paul Hewson (songwriters) (2005)

In 2016, Bacharach, at 88 years old, composed and arranged his first original score in 16 years for the film A Boy Called Po (along with composer Joseph Bauer [90]). The score was released on September 1, 2017. The entire 30-minute score was recorded in just two days at Capitol Studios. [91] The theme song, "Dancing with Your Shadow", was composed by Bacharach, with lyrics by Billy Mann, and performed by Sheryl Crow. [92] After seeing the film, a true story about a child with autism, Bacharach decided he wanted to write a score for it, as well as a theme song, in tribute to his daughter Nikki—who had gone undiagnosed with Asperger syndrome, and who committed suicide because of depression at the age of 40. [93] [94] "It touched me very much", the composer said. "I had gone through this with Nikki. Sometimes you do things that make you feel. It's not about money or rewards." [91] Viglione, Joe. "Sometimes Late at Night Review by Joe Viglione". allmusic . Retrieved August 22, 2023. Gallo, Phil (April 14, 1998). "Bacharach: One Amazing Night". Variety . Retrieved February 17, 2023. My Best Friend's Wedding The Musical UK & Ireland Tour". LondonTheatre1.com. December 9, 2019 . Retrieved December 11, 2019.But for all that, to countless millions of ears it’s simply beautiful music — art and ability and human spirit at its peak, the same thrill one gets when watching a gymnast or ballerina or downhill skier so talented they make it look like anyone can do it. When Rupert Everett somehow leads a singalong of Bacharach and David’s “I Say a Little Prayer” at Cameron Diaz’s’ rehearsal dinner in the 1997 film “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” some suspension of disbelief is required — it’s a really, really difficult song to sing, both melodically and rhythmically.

From 1975 to 1980, Bacharach wrote songs with a number of lyricists including Paul Anka, James J. Kavanaugh, Norman Gimbel, Libby Titus, Anthony Newley, and playwright Neil Simon. His solo albums from the late 1970s, including Futures and Woman, failed to yield hits. Bacharach also charted eight sets on the Billboard 200, the highest-charting (No. 18) being his self-titled album in 1971. I didn't want to make the songs the same way as they'd been done, so I'd split vocals and instrumentals and try to make it interesting... For me, it's about the peaks and valleys of where a record can take you. You can tell a story and be able to be explosive one minute, then get quiet as kind of a satisfying resolution. [112]

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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 a b Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford University Press. p.68. ISBN 9780199986767.

Reed, Rex. "Special TV Specials: An Evening with Doris Day and Burt Bacharach", Chicago Tribune, March 14, 1971. a b c "Elvis Costello Reunites With The Imposters & Burt Bacharach On New Album Look Now: Hear Two Songs". Stereogum. July 27, 2018 . Retrieved April 5, 2019. In her autobiography, Dietrich wrote that Bacharach particularly loved touring in Russia and Poland, because he thought very highly of the violinists performing there, and appreciated the public's reaction. [36] [37] According to Dietrich, he also liked Edinburgh and Paris, along with the Scandinavian countries, and "he also felt at home in Israel", she wrote, "where music was similarly much revered". [36] In the early 1960s, after about five years with Dietrich, their working relationship ceased, with Bacharach telling Dietrich that he wanted to devote himself full-time to songwriting. She thought of her time with him as "seventh heaven ... As a man, he embodied everything a woman could wish for ... How many such men are there? For me he was the only one." [36] [37]Hernandez, Ernio (June 15, 2003). "Walk On By: Broadway's Burt Bacharach-Hal David Revue, The Look of Love, Closes June 15". Playbill . Retrieved June 29, 2022. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" – Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash& Christopher Stewart (songwriters) (2009) Burt Bacharach, Barbra Streisand appear tonight", Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, WI), March 14, 1971. a b c Burlingame, Jon (January 5, 2017). "Burt Bacharach Writes From the Heart for 'Po' Score". Variety . Retrieved September 11, 2017. 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]

Buncombe, Andrew (January 8, 2007). "Asperger's syndrome: The ballad of Nikki Bacharach". The Independent . Retrieved February 9, 2023. Karima | Video, musica e news | MTV Italia". www.mtv.it. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020 . Retrieved December 29, 2020. Singer Presents Burt Bacharach: Nureyev segment [March 14, 1971]", Chicago Film Archives , retrieved February 14, 2023Vincent 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 Written, Narrated and Produced by John Gilliland; Chester Coleman, Associate Producer (February 1969). "Show 24: The Music Men-Part 2". John Gilliland's The Pop Chronicles. Pasadena, CA: UNT Digital Library. KRLA . Retrieved May 19, 2011. 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. 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. a b c d McEvoy, Colin (February 9, 2023). "What It Was Like to Work with Burt Bacharach, in the Words of his Collaborators". Biography . Retrieved February 11, 2023.