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RIP Burt Bacharach

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There's a great story that Cilla Black told about this.

She got a call to record the theme to "Alfie" but declined. She said, "Alfie's not a real name. It's like something you name your cat."

Burt talked to her and she finally relented but ONLY if he would come to England and do the arraignment and conduct the orchestra for the recording. Which she expected he would decline. But he didn't. He wanted Cilla to do it.

This is film from that.

 
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This song takes me back to July 4, 1970. An unusually cool day for mid summer.

A picnic at the park in West Liberty with grandparents.

Because it was so cold we wrapped it up early and went home and I remember feeling like I was cheated out of a holiday, but this song was on the radio all afternoon. So each time I hear it I feel those feelings and miss those people (that I was close to), that house, and those times.

 
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MeanDean said:
This song takes me back to July 4, 1970. An unusually cool day for mid summer.

A picnic at the park in West Liberty with grandparents.

Because it was so cold we wrapped it up early and went home and I remember feeling like I was cheated out of a holiday, but this song was on the radio all afternoon. So each time I hear it I feel those feelings and miss those people (that I was close to), that house, and those times.

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Among the all-time great songs!
 
When I was an adolescent, I woke up one day dreaming about a blonde (probably Peggy Lipton) as the instrumental end of this song (horns, piano) played on the radio (from 2:25). He had a way of making a simple phrase sound sublime. I think they left this ending off in the movie version (Butch Cassidy)

 
One time while working with Bacharach and David (they usually worked together in the Brill building in NYC), Dionne Warwick got mad at something and said, "Don't make me over" and David used that lyric in the song of the same name.

Anyway, this is one of my fav's from Dionne. Dusty Springfield did a version too.

 
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I love his songs. I am a big fan of Elvis Costello and Aimee Mann and I think they're kind of his successors. Obviously Costello since they work together, but Aimee Mann's song writing always seems so similar to those two and I think people often don't know about her or realize it.
 
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I was a HUGE Elvis Costello fan through Imperial Bedroom. It seemed like after that he lost some of his inspirational creativity. Not that there wasn't good stuff, I just really thought the first 5-6 albums (or however many there were through IB) were very strong top to bottom.
 
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I was a HUGE Elvis Costello fan through Imperial Bedroom. It seemed like after that he lost some of his inspirational creativity. Not that there wasn't good stuff, I just really thought the first 5-6 albums (or however many there were through IB) were very strong top to bottom.
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His best later stuff is Painted from Memory with Bacharach...which is how I even got into Bacharach and then slowly realized I had already been a fan of some of his songs. I was still pretty young back when Painted came out and it was so "un rock" compared to every other CD I had but I loved it and like it even more now. The song Toledo is my favorite on the album.

The Beatles cover of Baby It's You is one of my favorite Lennon vocals and I'm kind of obsessive about the early Lennon vocals.
 
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