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rocketpig on 16 January 2009

I expect to get somewhere around three people to know who the fuck he is and respond to this but here goes:

Genius.

Say a Little Prayer/Always Something There/What's New Pussycat?/Baby It's You/Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head/They Long To Be Close To You/Walk On By.

Has a single writer ever impacted pop culture as much as he did during his time?




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jv103 on 16 January 2009

Only Irving Berlin.



Tyrannical on 16 January 2009

I have the original Casino Royal sound track, featuring Burt Bacharach and the Tijuana Brass band. It's pretty awesome.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

rocketpig on 16 January 2009
jv103 said:
Only Irving Berlin.

 

Well shit, that was an unexpected surprise. At the best I expected Henry Mancini but you delightfully surprised me.




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okr on 16 January 2009

Genius, what else.

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=howEAqstkzQ (Raindrops from Butch Cassidy)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=D3181kl8UHA (Gateway from Butc Cassidy)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=a28kY1-s-Vc&feature=related (The Look of Love, Dusty Springfield)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz29mKraaMQ (Walk On By, Dionne Warwick)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=U5tqAbrZeX0&feature=related (Walk On By, Isaac Hayes)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=yxjjfgoYn2w&feature=related (I say a Little Prayer, Aretha Franklin)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO4Ubg0dD4A (Close to You, The Carpenters)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=k2z0KmhK95Q (One Less Bell to Answer, The Fifth Dimension)

 

Album recommendation for Bacharach "beginners".



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rocketpig on 16 January 2009

I should have known that okr would come in to do the dirty work that I couldn't be bothered with.

Bacharach gets no credit. It's a damned shame.




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rocketpig on 16 January 2009

BTW, that link does no justice to Dusty Springfield. OMG, c'mon.




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rocketpig on 16 January 2009

BTW, you're just tempting to make me create a thread about the amazing voice of Karen Carpenter.

You're a wily little bastard, ain't ya?




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okr on 16 January 2009

Of course I am.

Album recommendation for Bacharach afficionados (despite the stupid Easy Loungin' title this is my favourite Bacharach compilation of instrumentals - unfortunately it's out of print today).

Off to work now, I think I've never been later...will listen to Burt's music & Hal's Lyrics on the car. Thanks for the good start in the day, Mr. Beauchamp.



rocketpig on 16 January 2009

You're welcome and I guarantee it was my pleasure.

BTW, the pig is back. Listening to Nico and loving it but that's another discussion, isn't it?




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