The Look of Love - The Burt Bacharach Collection

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Often working alongside Hal David, 92-year-old Burt was a six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Oscar winner, and his songs have been recorded by over 1,000 different artists. a b Written, Narrated and Produced by John Gilliland; Chester Coleman, Associate Producer (February 1969). In November 1998,Rhino RecordsissuedThe Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection,a three-disc anthology of Bacharach’s work spanning his entire career, from “The Story of My Life” (Bacharach’s first Top 40 hit) to 1998’s “God Give Me Strength. Best known for composing and often performing his many pop hits from 1962-70, mainly with lyrics written by Hal David.

At This Time is an album by American pianist, composer and music producer Burt Bacharach, released in 2005 through Columbia Records. The song was written as a collaboration between Cross, Bacharach, and Bacharach's frequent writing partner and then wife Carole Bayer Sager. Burt Bacharach, Song by Song: The Ultimate Burt Bacharach Reference for Fans, Serious Record Collectors, and Music Critics. A Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Hal David, a July 2000 concert at Royal Albert Hall featuring Bacharach along with Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, Petula Clark and others was released on CD and DVD in 2001.In June 2015, Bacharach performed in the UK at the Glastonbury Festival, [76] [88] and a few weeks later appeared on stage at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark, South London, to launch What's It All About? In 1973, Bacharach and David wrote the songs for Lost Horizon, a film-musical remake of the 1937 dramatic adventure film of the same title. By the early 1980s, Bacharach's marriage to Angie Dickinson had ended, but a new partnership with lyricist Carole Bayer Sager proved rewarding, both commercially and personally. 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. The precise arrangements, the on-a-dime shifts in meter, and the mouthfuls of lyrics required to service all those notes have, over the years, proven challenging to singers and musicians.

The songs published in 1956 included "I Cry More" (featured in the motion picture Don't Knock the Rock), "The Morning Mail", and "Peggy's In The Pantry". In 2000, Burt composed the score and reunited with Hal David and Dionne Warwick on two songs forIsn’t She Great, a film based on the life of novelist Jacqueline Susann. In the UK, it lost out to Cilla Black's cover version, which proved to be far popular at the time, reaching number one and selling nearly a million copies.Bacharach and David's partnership with Warwick's became one of the most successful teams in popular music history. Dionne was apparently rather peeved with Cilla's version beating hers in the UK, with Cilla later saying: "It was a no. Hal David, Bacharach’s primary collaborator, supplied Bacharach’s music with lyrics worthy of the best Tin Pan Alley composers.

The next three might be the best pop songs ever written, and in the case of this one, Bacharach and David were definitely served by having Aretha Franklin sing it (if Warwick was the pair’s definitive interpreter, she couldn’t get near Franklin on I Say a Little Prayer). In the '90s, years after the hits dried up, the burgeoning "lounge" music movement provided him with a resurgence in popularity. In the late 1990s, his music underwent a revival fueled by films such as My Best Friend’s Wedding and the Austin Powers movies, as well as his collaboration with Elvis Costello.The two married and collaborated on several major hits during the decade, including " Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" ( Christopher Cross), co-written with Christopher Cross and Peter Allen, which won an Academy Award for Best Song; [56] " Heartlight" ( Neil Diamond); [71] " Making Love" ( Roberta Flack); and " On My Own" ( Patti LaBelle with Michael McDonald). That year the two, along with Dionne's sister Dee Dee Warwick, released the single "Move It on the Backbeat" under the name Burt and the Backbeats.