Wishin' and Votin' - the BURT BACHARACH SONGBOOK Poll Results

Just put up a mix based on these poll results -

https://www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of_sound/songs-by-burt-bacharach/

0:00:00 Dionne Warwick - Walk On By (1964)
0:02:49 Jackie DeShannon - What The World Needs Now Is Love (1965)
0:05:58 The Stylistics - You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart) (1976)
0:09:26 Wendell Stewart and the Downbeaters - (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me (1969)
0:12:27 Astrud Gilberto - Trains and Boats and Planes (1975)
0:15:04 The Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You (1970)
0:18:40 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Casino Royale (1967)
0:21:08 Love - My Little Red Book (1966)
0:23:36 Gene Pitney - Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa (1963)
0:26:30 Dusty Springfield - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (1964)
0:29:27 Elvis Presley - Any Day Now (1969)
0:32:22 Jim O'Rourke - Something Big (1999)
0:35:17 Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You (1968)
0:39:04 B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (1969)
0:41:56 The Free Design - The Windows of the World (1968)
0:44:20 The Fifth Dimension - One Less Bell To Answer (1970)
0:47:45 The Walker Brothers - Make it Easy On Yourself (1965)
0:50:53 Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had A Heart (1963)
0:53:55 Cilla Black - Alfie (1966)
0:56:27 Bobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again (1969)
0:59:14 The Shirelles - Baby It's You (1961)
1:01:45 Dusty Springfield - The Look of Love (1967)
1:05:15 Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer (1968)

Beautiful. That mix shares about 3/4s of the tracks with the "The Look of Love" compilation I grew up with. Bacharach tracks that I never really warmed to seem either "early" ("Magic Moments") or "late" ("That's What Friends Are For"). I've always had a bit of a feeling of frustration regarding the Jim O'Rourke cover of "Something Big", I feel like it's the musical equivalent of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho".

I found the liner notes to that box last year online:
http://albumlinernotes.com/Look_Of_Love_Disc_3.html

This is what Serene Dominic said abit it in his essential Burt Bacharach: Song By Song:

The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection. Brilliantly annotated by Alec Cumming, Patrick Milligan and Paul Grein, this smartly packaged 3-CD set is by far the best-ever gathering of Bacharach hits. A licensing nightmare, it was announced and delayed several times by Rhino before appearing hot on the heels of Painted from Memory. It concludes with Elvis’s “God Give Me Strength.”

Dominic, Serene. Burt Bacharach: Song By Song .

abit? about!This headcold I have is making my eyesight even worse.

https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/124626
Good Burt tribute from Jeff Golick on Destination: OUT on the WFMU Drummer stream. Show still ongoing for another hour and a half, will be archived after it's done. Not sure if the whole show is going to be Burt but I hope so.

Thanks!

I don't have my copy of THE LOOK OF LOVE box anymore, so didn't remember this one from PROMISES, PROMISES, sung by Jill O'Hara.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKRmQhotpCQ

seems like WFMU DJ is switching gears now.

just seeing your mix now, CaL. thanks for including some of my more idiosyncratic choices!

Was watching the bedroom scene with Raquel Welch and Dudley in BEDAZZLED the other night - really! - and started thinking it was some kind of takeoff on “The Look of Love” sequence in CASINO ROYALE and the music Dudley wrote sounded vaguely like the song.

On the off chance that someone here didn't see this on Rolling Obits:

ood extended excerpts of interviews on Fresh Air this week:

Bacharach, who died Feb. 8, wrote hits in the '60s and early '70s with longtime collaborator Hal David. We listen to a 2010 interview with them, and a '98 interview with Bacharach and Elvis Costello.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156489849/fresh-air-pays-tribute-to-legendary-composer-burt-bacharach
― dow, Tuesday, February 14, 2023 9:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Also: bigass The Songs of Bacharach and Costello out Mar. 3:
https://www.elviscostello.com/the-songs-of-bacharach-costello/

― dow, Tuesday, February 14

https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2023/03/03/elvis-costello-interview-bacharach/

From Real Gone Music newsletter:

We had this very, very special release in production when the sad news arrived of Burt Bacharach’s passing. We can think of no better way to honor the man—and the incredible vocal talent who brought his songs to life—than this 3-CD set. After all, very, very few artists have reached the heights attained by Dionne Warwick and her songwriting/production team of Bacharach and lyricist Hal David on their historic string of hit singles for the Scepter label. Over the course of a little over ten years, Dionne scored no less than 40 charting Pop hits and 29 charting R&B hits for Scepter, propelling her to a ranking second only to Aretha Franklin among female singers with the most chart hits in the rock era, not to mention five Grammy nods. More importantly, Warwick, Bacharach, and David brought a new level of sophistication to popular music…and by doing so, created some of the most indelible recordings of all time. However, despite its brilliance and lasting influence, there has never been a collection at music retail that truly captured this incredible body of work…until now. The Complete Scepter Singles 1962-1973 offers the A and B-side of every single Dionne cut for the Scepter label (with the bonus inclusion of her single for Musicor featuring the hit “Only Love Can Break a Heart”), all original, (mostly) mono single versions remastered by Mike Milchner of Sonic Vision from original tape sources and annotated by veteran music journalist and Billboard contributor Paul Grein. Among the 74 (!) tracks (all but 13 written by Bacharach and David) on this 3-CD set are some of the most hallowed sides in ‘60s pop, including “Don’t Make Me Over,” “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” “Walk On By,” “Message to Michael,” “(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” “Alfie,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” “Trains and Boats and Planes,” “This Girl’s in Love with You,” and “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.” But really, pretty much every track in this collection is a masterpiece…and remember, the single mixes you’re hearing on this collection is exactly what folks thrilled to when they turned on their radio back in the day. A cornerstone of any pop music collection…and a timely tribute coinciding with the release of the new Dionne Warwick documentary Don’t Make Me Over. We are limiting this release to 3000 copies…don’t “Walk On By!”

This is actually a slight repacking of the same CD release that was used for a 2018 PBS pledge drive - you had to donate something like $200 to get it.

https://www.discogs.com/release/12472277-Dionne-Warwick-The-Complete-1960s-Singles-Plus

Highly recommended, it's the first time the original mono 45 mixes were released on CD (much less in their entirety) and the mastering is done right.

Happy Burtday

Since (most of) the Tzadik catalog is now streaming, I wondered if someone might have put this back up, and sure enough, uploaded yesterday, my #1 in this poll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF-JmOUbmNY

i don't know how i missed that when we did the poll, it's awesome. i'm going to look into that record.

The Burt and Serge Gainsbourg Great Jewish Music comps are almost 100% fantastic (just a couple of minor misses).

Spotify credits say it was written by Zorn LOL.

"Here I Am" would be top-10 in a zillion other songwriters' catalogues but BB/HD is so deep it showed up on one ballot.