The Look of Love - The Burt Bacharach Collection

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When he was 15, Bacharach started a 10-piece band with high school classmates. With Burt on piano, the group gained exposure playing parties and dances. After graduating from Forest Hills High School, Bacharach enrolled in the music studies program at McGill University in Montreal. It was there that Burt says he wrote his first song, “The Night Plane to Heaven.” In April 2007, Bacharach contributed several songs toNew Music From An Old Friend, a CD on 180 Music that features new compositions and collaborations between legendary songwriters including Brian Wilson, Kris Kristofferson, Carole King, Paul Williams and Willie Nelson. That's just vanity and saying 'yeah, I'll write with someone else'. Then the other question is what could we have written if we hadn't split up. I don't know what we would have written. Had we 'run out' a little bit? Had we been depleted and robbed of creativity? [69] James Kimbrell (1989). Barbra, an Actress Who Sings: An Unauthorized Biography, Volume 1. Branden Publishing Company. ISBN 9780828319232 . Retrieved October 23, 2012. a b c d e f g "What It Was Like to Work with Burt Bacharach, in the Words of His Collaborators". Biography. February 9, 2023 . Retrieved February 17, 2023.

The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection-Liner Notes (Audio CD), Rhino/WEA, November 3, 1998 Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94". KCAL. February 9, 2023 . Retrieved February 9, 2023.

Hernandez, Ernio (June 15, 2003). "Walk On By: Broadway's Burt Bacharach-Hal David Revue, The Look of Love, Closes June 15". Playbill . Retrieved June 29, 2022. Buncombe, Andrew (January 8, 2007). "Asperger's syndrome: The ballad of Nikki Bacharach". The Independent . Retrieved February 9, 2023. Bacharach's visibility increased in the second half of the 1990s due to his appearances as himself in the Austin Powers films, a U.S. box set release of his music, and a new songwriting partnership that produced a Grammy-winning album. Bacharach formed his songwriting partnership with Elvis Costello initially to write one song, "God Give Me Strength", for the 1996 film Grace of My Heart. The film told the story of a fictional 1960s female Brill Building songwriter, and was inspired by songwriters like Carole King and Bacharach.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? Bacharach Reimagined, a 90-minute live arrangement of his hits. [89] In 2016, Bacharach, at 88 years old, composed and arranged his first original score in 16 years for the film A Boy Called Po (along with composer Joseph Bauer [90]). The score was released on September 1, 2017. The entire 30-minute score was recorded in just two days at Capitol Studios. [91] The theme song, "Dancing with Your Shadow", was composed by Bacharach, with lyrics by Billy Mann, and performed by Sheryl Crow. [92] After seeing the film, a true story about a child with autism, Bacharach decided he wanted to write a score for it, as well as a theme song, in tribute to his daughter Nikki—who had gone undiagnosed with Asperger syndrome, and who committed suicide because of depression at the age of 40. [93] [94] "It touched me very much", the composer said. "I had gone through this with Nikki. Sometimes you do things that make you feel. It's not about money or rewards." [91] Guerra, Joey (February 9, 2023). "Burt Bacharach once recorded an album with the Houston Symphony". Houston Cronicle . Retrieved February 17, 2023. Also in 1968, the duo's song " This Guy's in Love with You" was recorded by Herb Alpert, who was best known at the time as a fellow songwriter and a trumpet player as the leader of the Tijuana Brass. [18] The song went on to reach the top spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart later that year, becoming the first No. 1 hit for Alpert and his label, A&M Records. [18]

a b c "Elvis Costello Reunites With The Imposters & Burt Bacharach On New Album Look Now: Hear Two Songs". Stereogum. July 27, 2018 . Retrieved April 5, 2019. Ronald Isley, Burt Bacharach - Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach", AllMusic , retrieved February 14, 2023Bacharach's third marriage, to lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, spanned nine years (1982–1991). [119] The duo collaborated on a number of musical pieces and adopted a son, Cristopher Elton Bacharach, in 1985. [120] [119] Batista, Liz. "A visita de Marlene Dietrich ao Brasil". O Estado de S. Paulo. Grupo Estado. Archived from the original on August 16, 2019 . Retrieved November 17, 2020.

In 1966, the songwriter became a recording artist in his own right. His album Hit Maker! Burt Bacharach Plays the Burt Bacharach Hits, which featured his own mostly instrumental re-recordings of some of his best-known songs, became a hit in the U.K. The album was reissued in America as Burt Bacharach Plays His Hits. Bacharach went on to release several more collections of his own recordings of his hits, including Reach Out (1967), Make It Easy On Yourself (1969), Burt Bacharach (1971), Living Together (1973), Futures(1977) and Woman (1979), an ambitious song cycle recorded live in the studio with the Houston Philharmonic Orchestra. Burt Bacharach's daughter commits suicide". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved September 11, 2017.Bacharach went on to study theory and composition at the Mannes School of Music in New York City; at the Berkshire Music Center; and at the New School for Social Research, where he studied under composers Bohuslav Martinu, Henry Cowell and Darius Milhaud (whose influence on Bacharach’s style is apparent). He was also awarded a scholarship to the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Calif. In 2018, Bacharach released "Live to See Another Day", co-written with Rudy Pérez and featuring the Miami Symphony Orchestra; the song was dedicated to survivors of gun violence in schools, as the proceeds from the release went to the charity Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit organization founded and led by several family members whose children had been killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. [95] [96] Promises, Promises- Opening Night Production Credits". Internet Broadway Database . Retrieved May 18, 2011. Clevenger, Andrew (Spring 2003). "Director Scott Ellis and Look of Love collaborator, David Thompson, discuss the intricacies of creating a musical from Burt Bacharach and Hal David's greatest hits". Roundabout Theatre Company. Archived from the original on August 15, 2003.