Burt Bacharach

guitars4you

rlw said:

I saw him at the RFH with Joss Stone guesting in 2015.  It was an almost spiritual experience hearing all those songs live and being taken back to a much easier time.

Forgot about that and seen many clips of this show - excellent performance by Joss and she looked mighty fine as well in that red dress

The other great collaboration show is with Ron Isley from 2009  - tI think I recall I tried to get tickets for that 

ICBM

Genius.

RIP

Moominpapa

Fabulous songwriter. R.I.P.

Offset

Wonderful, wonderful artist.  Some fantastic songs by which to remember him though and 94 ain't a bad innings.

RIP.

JezWynd

An endless supply of effortlessly cool melodies. First exposure was a single my mum had circa 1964 - You'll Never Get To Heaven, flip side A House Is Not A Home. Played them both innumerable times on the little portable player in our Kowloon flat. Another world away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqw4NjJX108

thing

Absolute genius arranger. Bit like Beck in a way, you hear four bars and you know it’s Burt, no question. Utterly unique orchestrator. The arrangement for Alfie is just to die for. RIP legend. 

proggy

I'll say a little prayer.

RIP Burt.

Kittyfrisk

Unbelievable catalogue of fabulous tunes & arrangements over an unbelievable period of time. 
I doubt that anyone over 15 wouldn't recognise at least one Bacharach/David tune, even if they wouldn't know who wrote it.
RIP

guitartango

No more Raindrops then, very sad that another composer has left us.

roberty

Kittyfrisk said:

Unbelievable catalogue of fabulous tunes & arrangements over an unbelievable period of time. 

Those songs are almost too good. Just perfect really

Kilgore

Class act. Wonderful songwriter.

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head is one of the first songs I learned to play fingerstyle about eight years ago. I still play it several times a week.

RIP Burt. 

Bellycaster

A proper Musical Genius. What a sad loss.

exocet

A wonderful songwriter, a genius of composition.
The Carpenters - Close to you, is one of my favourites alongside Say a little prayer and The Look of Love.

Cryptid

Absolute legend he was. 

My mate puts on Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival, and in 2019, had booked Burt to play the penultimate slot before Khruangbin. Khruangbin pulled out on the day and my mate nervously called Burt's manager to ask if he'd be interested in playing for a little longer that night. She instantly said yes. He asked if she needed to check with Burt first (being 91 at the time). "Nope, he'll literally play all night if you'll let him" was the reply. 

He played for over two hours with bright eyes, a beaming smile and infectious energy. 

RIP

Jalapeno

guitars4you said:

We talk about the American Song Book with the likes of Berlin, Gershwin and Porter but Burt can certainly sit amongst such guys

WIS'd - for me he's their successor.

RIP Burt

Nitefly

"I'll Never Fall In Love Again" - I know there were other versions but I remember Bobbie Gentry's take best.

I don't know of another song with the word "pneumonia" in it!

RIP Mr B. and thanks for the music.

SPECTRUM001

What a sad sad loss; RIP Burt.

Truly one of my all time faves - I grew up with a couple of his cassettes my father used to play in the car, and have loved him ever since.

Three great memories - 

I worked in a London record shop in the eighties, and when it as my turn to play something, I put on the ‘A Portrait in Music’ LP. A senior manager then came over, took it off and said ‘we don’t play crap like that here’ !! I don’t think Burt had been rediscovered yet…

On our second date, me and Mrs001 went back to her flat. She hardly had any music aside from an old Burt and Dionne tape - love blossomed…

Four months later we were in Vegas scouting the wedding chapels. We walked into the Silver Bell, liked it and asked who famous had got married there - ‘Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson’ came the reply. We tied the knot the next day…

There have been many significant deaths of late. But Burt - this has really saddened me.

ESBlonde

guitars4you said:

So many great memories that will leave with us forever - Thanks so much for helping to write some of my most favourite songs - So many to choose from but if I picked one it would be raindrops keep falling on my head - RIP Burt Bacharach

We’ve learned Raindrops as a tribute for the couple of gigs we have this month. A real treat.

boogieman

GoFish said:

RIP Burt.

Burt’s finest hour for me too. It helps that Aretha delivers it perfectly but it’s a fantastic song in the first place. 

RIP. 

DaveJames

What a shame, didn't he leave Angie dickinson for Carol Bayer sagar, never understood that one.