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In the same Record Collector interview he discussed writing specifically for a film: "When I'm scoring a picture, whether it's Butch Cassidy or Casino Royale or What's New Pussycat?, all those melodies that turned into what became hit songs came from what I saw on the screen when I was scoring and what I heard. The first thing is you service ...
9 févr. 2023 · 10 Best Burt Bacharach songs from the peerless pop composer, from "What's New Pussycat" to "I Say a Little Prayer."
What's New Pussycat? est une chanson écrite par Burt Bacharach et Hal David, interprétée par Tom Jones. Faisant partie de la bande originale du film Quoi de neuf, Pussycat ?, elle est nommée à la 38 e cérémonie des Oscars dans la catégorie de l'Oscar de la meilleure chanson originale.
10 févr. 2023 · Originally recorded by Manfred Mann for the same What's New Pussycat? soundtrack, the version that's endured is Love's more menacing take that opened their self-titled debut album in 1966. The story goes that Bacharach was such a perfectionist over the original version that he plonked himself behind the piano to bash the chords out ...
- Dionne Warwick Anyone Who Had A Heart
- Jackie Deshannon What The World Needs Now Is Love
- Cilla Black Alfie
- Aretha Franklin I Say A Little Prayer
- Dusty Springfield The Look of Love
- Burt Bacharach Something Big
- Luther Vandross A House Is Not A Home
- Burt Bacharach Live to See Another Day
- Burt Bacharach with A Voice
After moving back to New York, Bacharach started hanging out in the Brill Building, where he met the lyricist Hal David, who had already had hits. “We treated it like a business relationship,” he says. “At 5.30pm, he’d get on a train back to Long Island. I’d go back to my New York apartment. I wasn’t making much money.” Calvin Carter, an A&R man, g...
Bacharach and David played this waltzing ode to peace to Warwick, “and she didn’t like it,” says Bacharach. “She thought it was too flag-waving.” Bacharach respected Warwick – “she had very good taste” – so much so that her distaste made him doubt the song. “I put it in a drawer.” Years later, David suggested playing it for DeShannon. “I played eig...
When Bacharach received a call to go to Abbey Road in London to work with Cilla Black and George Martin on a song for the Michael Caine movie Alfie, he took it extremely seriously. “I hardly knew George Martin. I just knew that if I was gonna fly from New York to London, I’d take no prisoners,” he says. The recording process was notorious. He drove...
Aretha Franklin’s version is the most renowned, but Warwick recorded this for Bacharach first. He wasn’t sold on it, and tried desperately to keep the record from coming out. “It didn’t feel subtle,” he says. He was wrong. The Warwick version reached No 4 on the Billboard chart. To this day, however, he prefers Franklin’s version. “I thought it was...
Film producer Charles Feldman gave Bacharach his first opportunity in cinema, inviting him to score the 1965 comedy What’s New Pussycat? “I was clueless about how to score a film.” Soon after, he scored the 1967 Bond curio Casino Royale, which caused tension with his then wife, the actor Angie Dickinson, who grew envious as he watched Ursula Andres...
One of the last numbers Bacharach and David wrote together, this deep cut had such a hold over Bacharach that he recorded it himself. With the passing of time, Bacharach has learned to appreciate the genius in David’s lyrics. “I was so into how my music was going to sound I just wanted one word with a vowel sound. Whatever the word was it didn’t ma...
From Kanye West’s sped-up sampling of this as producer on Twista’s 2003 hit Slow Jamz to its parody on Spongebob Squarepants (This Grill Is Not a Home), this wistful smoothie got its biggest resurgence courtesy of Luther Vandross in 1981. Bacharach is unaware that West paid tribute. “Did he?” he asks. “It’s a very good song. There have been some ic...
Politics is what spurs Bacharach to write now. His remaining Songbook choices are as yet unreleased. He wrote this one with Latin songwriter Rudy Pérez, about gun violence in schools. “This is my form of resistance,” he says. “I can’t stand what’s happening in this country – my country.” Bacharach says he has “prayers” for the next election. “We ha...
Bacharach grows weary as he explains this song’s subject matter, namely “the anguish of living in a Trump land”. He despairs for the digital age, and urges Congress to change regulations to ensure songwriters are properly paid. “If my catalogue was being written now, it would be hopeless. I saw talented writers who couldn’t survive the rejection in...
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7 mai 2013 · British-born Dusty Springfield enjoyed an iconic Bacharach hit with the seductive “The Look of Love,” while Tom Jones popularized the playful “What’s New Pussycat?” and Herb Alpert romanticized with “This Guy’s in Love With You.” The smashes continued in the 70s when the Carpenters reached #1 with “(They Long to Be ...
10 févr. 2023 · It was on 'What's New Pussycat?' where Burt initially collaborated with the Welsh dragon Tom Jones in 1965 for the film of the same name. A couple of years later them teamed up again for a light-hearted version of 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' accompanied by 'Big Jim Sullivan' on guitar, which both amazed and amused audiences ...
