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Burt Bacharach
was the master of the mellow jazz-infected orchestral melody.
If Cole Porter's songs had been the quintessence of calculated
aristocratic elegance, the songs of Bacharach were the quintessence of
spontaneous middle-class elegance: casual, unassuming, almost involuntary.
His golden years were the ones with lyricist Hal David, a collaboration
that yielded several classics of easy listening, often interpreted (from 1963
on) by Dionne Warwick:
The Story of my Life (1957), sung by Marty Robbins,
Magic Moments (1958), sung by Perry Como,
Baby It's You (1961) for the Shirelles,
Liberty Valance (1962), Only Love Can Break a Heart (1962) and 24 Hours from Tulsa (1963) for Gene Pitney,
Blue On Blue (1963) for Bobby Vinton,
Anyone Who Had a Heart (1964) and Walk On By (1964) for Warwick,
Wishin' And Hopin' (1964) for Dusty Springfield,
Send Me No Flowers (1964) for Doris "Day" VonKappelhoff,
Always Something There to Remind me (1964) for Lou Johnson and then Sandie Shaw and then Warwick,
Don't Go Breakin' My Heart (1965) and Trains And Boats And Planes (1965) for himself (one of the few singles released under his own name),
What The World Needs Now Is Love (1965) for Jackie DeShannon,
Alfie (1966) for Warwick,
I Say A Little Prayer (1967), Do You Know the Way to San Jose? (1967) and Valley of the Dolls (1968) for Warwick,
The Look Of Love (1968) for Sergio Mendes,
Message to Michael (1968) and I'll Never Fall in Love Again (1969) under his own name and then for Warwick,
This Girl's In Love With You (1969) for Warwick,
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (1969) for B.J. Thomas,
Close To You (1970) for the Carpenters.
Bacharach also scored Clive Donner's film What's New Pussycat? (1965),
that contained What's New Pussycat (for Tom Jones)
and My Little Red Book,
and
George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
Replacing David with his wife Carole Bayer Sager, Bacharach still delivered
Arthur's Theme/ The Best that You Can Do (1981) for Christopher Cross,
That's What Friends are For (1986) for Warwick and
On My Own (1986) for Patti Labelle.
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At This Time (2006) employed a number of contemporary vocalists,
including rappers and rockers
Elvis Costello and
Rufus Wainwright.
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