Dionne Warwick – I Say A Little Prayer
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Effortless, vocal, mastery.
My heart is saddened because Burt Bacharach has died. I was – and remain, one of his greatest fans.
From his early successes such as “Baby it’s You,” by the Shirelles, “Any Day Now” by Chuck Jackson, to “Only Love Can Break the Heart” by Gene Pitney, his work is unmistakable once you begin to “hear” it.
He soared to success when his collaboration with Dionne Warwick, resulted in hit after hit after hit, as he was to write and score the music for virtually all of her top-selling singles and albums.
He continued to have hit after hit with artists such as Herb Alpert (“This Guys in Love”), BJ Thomas (Raindrops Keep Fallin), Tom Jones (“What’s New Pussycat”) Jackie Deshannon (What the World Needs Now) and one of my all-time favorites, “The Look of Love” by that most sensuous of voices, Dusty Springfield.
There are other remarkable songs – and artists who performed them, too numerous to mention. Richard Carpenter, Karen’s brother of “The Carpenters” fame, once remarked that Bacharach – by example, taught him much of what he learned about music and the piano. Their first hit single, “Close to You” was yet another Bacharach gem! Listening to many of “The Carpenters” subsequent hits you can easily discern Bacharach’s influence on Richard.
I shall cherish his legacy
I was 5yo. Mom had all of the albums and 45s from the era. This was one of her favorites.
Chances are that I watched this on the Curtis Mathes.
This news made me very sad.