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Burt Bacharach

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Composer, musician, legend, 94.
Be seeing you.
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  • sev112sev112 Frets: 2457
    Ah crap,  one of my faves for many decades 
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  • fretmeisterfretmeister Frets: 22257
    Proper legend.
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    Definitely a legend in the most absolute way. 

    Also one to file under “thought he was already dead” for me…
    The Assumptions - UAE party band for all your rock & soul desires
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  • PhiltrePhiltre Frets: 4110
    Damn. Love him.
    My trading feedback

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  • LordBucketHeadLordBucketHead Frets: 302
    An amazing talent. Created a lot of wonderful music. 
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  • robertyroberty Frets: 10231
    Wow, good innings. A legend in the truest sense
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  • rlwrlw Frets: 4314
    edited February 2023
    The sound of the sixties in many ways.  Brilliant writer, composer, all round great musician and massive contributor to the story of 20th century music.



    Save a cow.  Eat a vegetarian.
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    Save a cow.  Eat a vegetarian.
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    Save a cow.  Eat a vegetarian.
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  • westwest Frets: 974
    What's it all about, Alfie?
    Is it just for the moment we live?
    What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
    Are we meant to take more than we give
    Or are we meant to be kind?  .....   X  ;( 


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  • SRichSRich Frets: 751
    God, give me strength

    94 is a good time on this Earth though.

    RIP Mr Bacharach

    "There's things I want, there's things I think I want 
    There's things I've had, there's things I wanna have" 
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    Wow - Only just heard - There are song writers and then there are song writers and then there is Burt - Many might not have heard of Burt - But they know his songs - We talk about the American Song Book with the likes of Berlin, Gershwin and Porter but Burt can certainly sit amongst such guys

    I'm led to believe that his relationship with Dionne Warwick is that she sang the original demo songs, as the sketch pad for other artist - Then they heard how good she was

    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
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
    edited February 2023 tFB Trader
    rlw said:

    Shows how great a song it is as Cilla kills it - She might be a great entertainer/tv star but what a lousy singer 

    Sandie Shaw was first offered the song, but turned it down - The movie company wanted a UK singer to sing it, hence Cilla - But Burt wanted Dionne - Dionne had the hit version with it in the USA later - Quite common at the time, for the same song to have 2 different singers, with the record companies releasing the same song, with different singers, for the UK and the USA - Something like nearly 20 takes of Cilla's version were reordered, engineered/produced by George Martin - And Burt flew in from the USA to arrange the song/recording and I think played piano on it as well
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  • BlueingreenBlueingreen Frets: 2506
    I saw him a few years ago with a big band.  Unbelievable catalogue of great pop songs.  Possibly only Lennon/McCartney could better it.

    He had one male and two female lead singers and he conducted from the piano, but sang "Alfie" himself. The voice, never very strong, had completely gone and was a cracked whisper.  But hearing that sublime song sung by the 90 year old genius who'd composed it was an incredibly moving experience.
    “To a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail.”
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    then there is The Look Of Love 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1d65OHYXo
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
    edited February 2023 tFB Trader
    Then I forgot about this - As I was thinking Herb wrote it - But it is a Burt song - Awesome

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppYnbbu1OmA
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  • merlinmerlin Frets: 6199
    edited February 2023
    My personal favourite....if it's possible to find a favourite. Offered first to Dionne Warwick but she turned it down and it was given to Jackie DeShannon. Dionne did a version later....







    feedback here
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  • usedtobeusedtobe Frets: 3841
    Great innings. So many great songs. RIP
     so if you fancy a reissue of a guitar they never made in a colour they never used then it probably isn't too overpriced.

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  • rlwrlw Frets: 4314
    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.
    Save a cow.  Eat a vegetarian.
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  • GoFishGoFish Frets: 1082

    RIP Burt.

    Ten years too late and still getting it wrong
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    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 
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    Genius.

    RIP :(

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • MoominpapaMoominpapa Frets: 1649
    Fabulous songwriter. R.I.P.
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  • OffsetOffset Frets: 9212
    Wonderful, wonderful artist.  Some fantastic songs by which to remember him though and 94 ain't a bad innings.

    RIP.
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  • JezWyndJezWynd Frets: 5837
    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
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  • thingthing Frets: 469
    edited February 2023
    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. 
    This is absurd.  You don’t know what you’re talking about.  It warrants combat.
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  • proggyproggy Frets: 5721
    I'll say a little prayer.

    RIP Burt.
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  • KittyfriskKittyfrisk Frets: 16332
    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
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  • guitartangoguitartango Frets: 954
    No more Raindrops then, very sad that another composer has left us.
    “Ken sent me.”
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  • robertyroberty Frets: 10231
    Kittyfrisk said:
    Unbelievable catalogue of fabulous tunes & arrangements over an unbelievable period of time. 
    Those songs are almost too good. Just perfect really
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