The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: uwe on February 09, 2023, 10:03:10 AM
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/feb/09/burt-bacharach-
Call me a wuss, I really liked his elegant songwriting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88UgwiJXEw0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub4rKDkL53s
(Talk about an expressive bass sound! :mrgreen: )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dERmrf48qe4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kikh-IzmLg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBp7uD4qUBk
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Let's not forget his fabulous songwriting partner, Hal David. Together they wroe fantastic tunes. First one I remember is the song Message to Martha. And then lots, and lots, and lots of great tunes.
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Bacharach and David did some fantastic work. To a great degree, their sound was the sound of an era.
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Believe it or not, this is a Burt Bacharach - Hal David song.
https://youtu.be/ftO9ClIhFAo
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You can hear it via the chorus. Someone up there must be cynical for a band like Love to never have made it. Everybody's favorite cult band.
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Speaking of Love, it's what the world needs now. A wonderful message to leave behind for the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ2SAtkEsqU
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Those arrangements are pretty nifty.
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The best cover of a Bacharach song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFLKpAkvudQ
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Wow. Never heard of that band or her. A real gap in my CD collection - immediately rectified by making Herr Bezos some more money.
Danke for the inspiration!
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I love his music. I think he's one of the best pop song writers ever. His stuff had sophistication and depth. A few years ago I picked up a CD of his "greatest hits" by various artists (original versions). It's just a treasure chest of superb songwriting. He sure lived a full life. May he now rest in peace.
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The best cover of a Bacharach song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFLKpAkvudQ
I have always loved this version. Great performance by the vocalist!
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Wow. Never heard of that band or her. A real gap in my CD collection - immediately rectified by making Herr Bezos some more money.
Danke for the inspiration!
So you must not have seen Death Proof either? Kurt Russell is a real son of a bitch in that one. Definitely also worth checking out. Awesome car scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdaHBe1VOmM
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I agree. The movie is worth checking out for those who like that kind of stuff. It worked for me. I especially liked the way things turned out for the Mike character.
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I have always loved this version. Great performance by the vocalist!
The late Gayle McCormick. She had so much going for her. She should have been a big star. Sometimes it just doesn't work out that way.
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I love his work, at least those songs I'm familiar with. He was quite the hitmaker.
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Saw elsewhere that most of Gene Pitney's big hits were Bacharach/David songs, including 24 Hours From Tulsa, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Only Love Can Break A Heart, Fool Killer, and True Love Never Runs Smooth. If I ever knew this, I had forgotten.
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At one point years ago, I was surprised to learn that The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance wasn't the theme song for that movie. But that is one of the great movies.
The famous signature line resonates today more than ever: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
Some very interesting insight into that scene, and the book which was the source.....
https://sevencircumstances.com/2018/06/15/the-mystery-of-the-misquoted-quote-from-the-man-who-shot-liberty-valance/#:~:text=When%20the%20legend%20becomes%20fact,sounds%20so%20convincing%20and%20humanistic.
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Yeah, I saw the movie shortly after the song came out and wondered about that. Then I read that the song was "inspired by the movie."
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You can hear it via the chorus. Someone up there must be cynical for a band like Love to never have made it. Everybody's favorite cult band.
Prison slowed that down a bit.
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It did (several times, but his last sentence for negligent discharge of a firearm was reversed, yet cost him 5 1/2 years prison time) , but Arthur Lee had a nice and deserved cult comeback/rediscovery originating in the UK after the millennium. By all accounts not an easy man to get along with, he could only bask shortly in that late glow of his career before succumbing to leukemia in 2006.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad0sGSR_UZg
I can't pretend to have known him or the band before, my only previous exposure to Love music had been - figures for Uwe the heavy rock kid - the largely faithful UFO cover from Lights Out in 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTIhQufNN8
and the likewise not straying far from the original one from The Damned 10 years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYVDN27CrOo
I only jumped the train when Mojo magazine began to rave about him after he resumed touring after his prison release. I always liked the haunting quality of the tune (I'm surprised that Lana Del Rey has not yet done a cover of it). Of course the whole Forever Changes album is great.
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Dionne Warwick was always a guilty pleasure.
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Why guilty? I thought she was/is great even when not doing Bacharach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xHQsMYosao
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I went to a Rat Pack reenactment show in Vegas. Afterward stopped ar a small bar near the show....the Rat Pack guys came in, and we discovered that we were sitting 4 feet from Dionne Warwick. She was just chillin'.