“The best way, for me, always is to get away from the piano, sit in a place and hear it in my head,”
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Burt Bacharach
Burt Freeman Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist, widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. A significant figure in orchestral pop and easy listening, he composed hundreds of songs, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David, and arranged, conducted, and produced much of his recorded output. His m…
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entertainment · American composer and songwriter (1928–2023) · pianist · songwriter · film score composer · record producer · recording artist · music arranger · conductor · singer · lyricist · bandleader · also Burt Bacharach, Burt F. Bacharach, Burt Freeman Bacharach, Bacharach
Born 12 May 1928 · Died 8 February 2023 · Q212762
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2026· 4 entries
Chino Valley Champion: Anne Walsh Music: The Best of From Bossa to Bacharach with a Splash of Brazil '66
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Cashbox Canada: Legendary Neal McCoy Honours Bacharach and David with Release of “Alfie”
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Halifax Courier: Tour stop in Halifax for The Burt Bacharach Songbook this October
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2023· 9 entries
The Guardian: Burt Bacharach remembered by Elvis Costello
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Released album “The Songs of Bacharach & Costello”.
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The Guardian: Burt Bacharach: 10 of his greatest songs
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The Guardian: Burt Bacharach: an astonishing creator of impermeable classics and super-smooth pop
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The Guardian: A lifetime of magic moments: Burt Bacharach in pictures
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The Guardian: Burt Bacharach, master of pop songwriting, dies aged 94
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The Guardian: Burt Bacharach obituary
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Died 2023-02-08.
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“I knew I was doing things different but at the same time I was doing things that were very natural for me … I wasn’t trying to break any rules. But I wrote the way I heard things.”
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2020· 1 entry
Released ep “Blue Umbrella”.
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: Burt Bacharach review – magic moments from master of lounge
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The Guardian: Burt Bacharach on his best-known hits: ‘My songs are a form of resistance’
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Burt Bacharach review – masterclass in melody by pop maverick
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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 t
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Essential Recordings 1955-62”.
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2016· 3 entries
The Guardian: Rumer: This Girl’s in Love review – in love with love and Burt Bacharach
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Released album “Close to You: Bacharach Reimagined (The Original London Cast Recording)”.
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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)
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2015· 4 entries
The Guardian: Burt Bacharach: A Life in Song review – infuriating, frustrating and fairly insulting
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The Guardian: What's It All About? review – a clever, passionate reappraisal of Burt Bacharach
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The Guardian: Burt Bacharach at Glastonbury 2015 review – sunny hits and sweet familiarity
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The Guardian: Burt Bacharach: Marlene Dietrich’s music sucked! But I liked her
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “This Guitar’s in Love With You”.
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2013· 2 entries
Released album “Anyone Who Had a Heart: The Art of the Songwriter”.
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Released album “Make It Easy On Yourself 1962”.
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2012· 4 entries
Awarded Gershwin Prize (2012).
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Released album “Blame It on Bacharach!”.
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Released album “Long Ago Last Summer 1959-61”.
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Bacharach and David were the first songwriting team to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “What’s New Pussycat? / Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You”.
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Released album “When Ronan Met Burt”.
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Promises, Promises (The New Broadway Cast Recording)”.
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2008· 6 entries
Released album “Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2008).
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Released album “Live at the Sydney Opera House”.
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Bacharach was featured in the BBC Electric Proms at The Roundhouse with the BBC Concert Orchestra
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Bacharach opened the BBC Electric Proms at The Roundhouse in London, performing with the BBC Concert Orchestra accompanied by guest vocalists Adele, Beth Rowley, and Jamie Cullum
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Released album “Unforgettable Songs”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Timeless”.
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At age 40, after struggling with depression for many years
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “The Definitive Burt Bacharach Songbook”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “At This Time”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Something Big”.
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach”.
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Released album “What the World Needs Now: Burt Bacharach Classics”.
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Released album “The Rare Bacharach 1956-1978”.
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Arranged and produced Ronald Isley's album Here I Am, on which Isley sang a program of Bacharach songs mostly drawn from Bacharach's 1960s-era hits
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Bacharach Moods”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Twenty Classic Recordings”.
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Released album “The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection”.
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Released album “Lounge Legends”.
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1999· 7 entries
Released album “The Sweetest Punch”.
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Burt Bacharach”.
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Released album “The Reel Burt Bacharach”.
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Released album “Trains & Boats & Covers. The Songs of Burt Bacharach”.
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Released album “Classic”.
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Released album “The Royal Festival Hall”.
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Released album “Isn't She Great”.
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1998· 5 entries
Released album “Painted From Memory”.
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Bacharach and Costello released the album Painted from Memory, on which the pair continued to work in the 1960s and 1970s pop style that they used for their initial collaboration
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Released album “The Music of Burt Bacharach”.
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Released album “After the Fox”.
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Rhino Records released a 3-CD box set, The Look of Love, that licensed the original recordings of most of his best-known songs
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (1997).
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Released album “Plays His Hits”.
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Released album “A Man and His Music”.
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Released album “Collection Series”.
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1996· 4 entries
Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (1996).
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Released album “The Look of Love: The Classic Songs of Burt Bacharach”.
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Released album “KYOU-SOU-KYOKU Origianl Soundtrack”.
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Released album “The Best of Burt Bacharach”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Easy Loungin’: Twenty Easy Listening Classics”.
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Released album “Close to You: The Music of Burt Bacharach”.
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1993· 2 entries
To write a song for a Warwick album, and in 1999, to write two songs for the soundtrack of the film Isn't She Great
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Released album “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “A&M Gold Series: Burt Bacharach”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Classics, Volume 23”.
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1985· 1 entry
Reunited Bacharach and Warwick
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) (1982).
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “Woman”.
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Released album “Together? (Original Soundtrack Recording)”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Futures”.
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1975· 1 entry
To write and produce Stephanie Mills' second album, For The First Time, released by Motown
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1974· 1 entry
To record three new Bacharach songs for Warner Brothers, though the songs remained unreleased until 2013
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1973· 5 entries
Released album “Portrait in Music, Vol. II”.
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Released album “Burt Bacharach’s Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Living Together”.
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Bacharach and David wrote the songs for Lost Horizon, a film-musical remake of the 1937 dramatic adventure film of the same title
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Released album “Lost Horizon (1973 film cast)”.
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1971· 4 entries
Released album “Burt Bacharach”.
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Barbra Streisand appeared on the special Singer Presents Burt Bacharach, where they discussed their careers and favorite songs and performed songs together
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Released album “Live in Japan”.
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Released album “Portrait in Music”.
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (1970).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Score, no Musical for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970).
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1969· 3 entries
Harry Betts arranged Bacharach's instrumental composition "Nikki" (named for Bacharach's daughter) into a new theme for the ABC Movie of the Week, a television series that ran on the U
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Released album “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”.
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Released album “Make It Easy on Yourself”.
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1968· 3 entries
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
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Released album “Promises, Promises”.
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Jazz musician Stan Getz recorded twelve Bacharach and David songs for What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David
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1967· 3 entries
Released album “Reach Out”.
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Released album “Casino Royale”.
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Signed with A&M Records both as an artist and a producer, recording several solo albums (all consisting in a mix of new material and rearrangements of his best-known songs) until 1978
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1966· 3 entries
They had one daughter, Lea Nikki Bacharach, who was born prematurely in 1966, weighing 1 lb 10 oz, and then being isolated from human touch for 3 months.
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Released album “On the Flip Side (Original Cast)”.
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Weighing 1 lb 10 oz, and then being isolated from human touch for 3 months
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1965· 2 entries
Released album “What’s New Pussycat?”.
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Released album “Hit Maker! Burt Bacharach Plays His Hits”.
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1962· 1 entry
With "Don't Make Me Over", which also became her first hit
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1961· 2 entries
Bacharach discovered singer Dionne Warwick, who was working as a session backup singer at the time
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Bacharach was credited as arranger and producer, for the first time on both label and sleeve, for the song "Three Wheels on My Wagon", written jointly with Hilliard for Dick Van Dyke
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1956· 4 entries
And had their first major hits with Marty Robbins' "The Story of My Life" (1957) and Perry Como's "Magic Moments" (1958)
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At the age of 28, Bacharach's productivity increased when composer Peter Matz recommended him to Marlene Dietrich, who needed an arranger and conductor for her nightclub shows
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Bacharach and lyricist Hal David, who were both working in the Brill Building in New York City for Famous Music, published their first songs as co-writers
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Included "I Cry More" (featured in the motion picture Don't Knock the Rock), "The Morning Mail", and "Peggy's In The Pantry"
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-05-12.
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