Sings the Bacharach & David Songbook [Import]

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Album Description
22 of her biggest & best hit renditions of pop standards by legendary songwriting duo Burt Bacharach & Hal David. All of the songs are the original versions she cut for Scepter in the '60s & early '70s. 13 of the tunes are bonafide Billboard chart hits, including the top 10 smashes 'Do You Know The Way To San Jose', 'Message To Michael', 'I Say A Little Prayer', 'Anyone Who Had A Heart', 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again' and 'Walk On By'. The full title is 'Sings The Bacharach & David Songbook'.

Tracks:

Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
What the World Needs Now Is Love
Alfie
Message to Michael
I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
I Say a Little Prayer
You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
Anyone Who Had a Heart
I'll Never Fall in Love Again
Walk on By
Trains and Boats and Planes
Make It Easy on Yourself
House Is Not a Home
(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
Look of Love
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
Wishin' and Hopin'
Only Love Can Break a Heart
Promises, Promises
Wives and Lovers
Reach out for Me
Windows of the World

Album Description

22 of her biggest & best hit renditions of pop standards by legendary songwriting duo Burt Bacharach & Hal David. All of the songs are the original versions she cut for Scepter in the '60s & early '70s. 13 of the tunes are bonafide Billboard chart hits, including the top 10 smashes 'Do You Know The Way To San Jose', 'Message To Michael', 'I Say A Little Prayer', 'Anyone Who Had A Heart', 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again' and 'Walk On By'. The full title is 'Sings The Bacharach & David Songbook'. Music Club.

Album Details

1994 Release Compiles the Impressive Catalog of Recordings of Songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David by Miss Warwick. Features 22 Tracks, Including 'do You Know the Way to San Jose', 'i Say a Little Prayer', 'walk on By', '(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me' and More. Also Packaged with Foldout Liner Notes Written by Vox Magazine's Michael Heatley.

Customer Reviews:

Timeless Dionne Warwick Classics.......2006-11-04

Dionne Warwick singing her classic standards is timeless for anyone who is a fan of hers and Burt Bacharach! I recommend this CD to anyone young and old!
D. Green

Dionne Warwick Sings the Bacharach & David Songbook.......2006-08-25

This 3 CD Set is wonderful. With old songs and Duet with today singers really make this Set worth having. Just kick back and enjoy. What's not to like with Dionne Warwick and the songs of Bacharach & David?
This would make a great gift for those who enjoy good music and wonderful written songs.

Happiness!.......2006-08-19

This cd will make you laugh every time you play it! It's like an endless stream of prozac... you'll be wondering how on earth does a musical gem like this exist! I mean this as a compliment! If you want to take a trip out of this world, play this cd!!!

Dionne in the sixties.......2005-04-13

In the sixties, Dionne Warwick was much more successful in her native America than she was in Britain, but this was mainly because so many of her American hits were covered by British artists and became hits for them instead. As time progressed, this practice died out and Dionne gained the recognition she deserved in Britain too. This compilation focuses on her sixties music, specifically the songs that Bacharach and David wrote.

Bacharach and David were prolific songwriters in the sixties and Dionne relied heavily on their songs at that time. Do you know the way to San Jose and Walk on by were the only songs here to provide Dionne with significant British hits. Many of the other songs provided Dionne with American hits, but even in America, some songs were given to others to have hits with.

Among the songs here that were hits for other singers in Britain, America or both are Anyone who had a heart (Cilla Black), Raindrops keep falling on my head (B J Thomas). I just don't know what to do with myself (Dusty Springfield), Always something there to remind me (Sandie Shaw), I'll never fall in love again (Bobbie Gentry), I say a little prayer (Aretha Franklin), Make it easy on yourself (Walker brothers), What the world needs now is love (Jackie De Shannon), Alfie (Cilla Black), You'll never get to heaven (Stylistics), The look of love (Dusty Springfield) and Only love can break a heart (Gene Pitney). Indeed, there are very few songs on this CD that will be unfamiliar to fans of sixties music.

Notable omissions are Close to you (later made famous by the Carpenters), Don't make me over, and This girl's in love with you, all of which qualified for inclusion here. Still, the quality of the songs here is excellent and, for the price, this is wonderful value.

If you are looking for a collection of Dionne's sixties music, you'll find it difficult to improve on this one.

Poor audio quality ruins great music.......2004-02-29

I LOVE Dionne Warwick. Imagine my disappointment when I played this CD and from the opening track heard hiss and noise. Then on track two, "What the World Needs Now," there's so much distortion it makes the gorgeous song essentially unlistenable. And so on through the album. I'm going to recycle the disc through a used CD store, and get a different collection with better sound. Sorry, I don't yet know which one might be the best -- but it isn't this one.

The Burt Bacharach Album: Broadway Sings the Best of Burt Bacharach

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Attention Broadway Fans!
BROADWAY TREATMENT OF BACHARACH THAT GROWS ON YOU
Lushly mounted Burt without the emotion

The Burt Bacharach Album: Broadway Sings the Best of Burt Bacharach
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000060E6
Release Date: 1998-04-07

Tracks:

What's New, Pussycat? - Jason Graae
Are You There (With Another Girl)? - Farah Alvin
I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Guy Haines
My Little Red Book - Melba Joyce
One Less Bell To Answer - Christiane Noll
Bacharach At The Movies: The Blob/The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance/Hot Spell/Raindrops Keep... - The Plaids
Alfie - Michelle Nicastro
The Look Of Love - Jane Krakowski
Anyone Who Had A Heart - La Chanze
Whoever You Are, I Love You - Susan Egan
Window Wishing - Alet Oury
A House Is Not A Home - Linda Purl
A Bacharach Love Story: Magic Moments/I Say A Little Prayer/Close To You/Wives And Lovers... - Shauna Hicks
That's What Friends Are For - Helen Reddy

Customer Reviews:

Attention Broadway Fans!.......1999-03-18

This album is a must have for those of you who are both B'way addicts and connoiseurs of really first-class cheesy pop. Basically, it's a bunch of really talented musical theatre people having a GAS with the Bacharach bubble-gum style. From the first minute of the first track, when Jason Graae starts into the hilariously orchestrated "What's New, Pussycat?"--which starts off with a dig at "Cats"--you'll be laughing. Check out Farah Alvin's bright "Are You There (With Another Girl)" and Susan Egan's over-the-top "Whoever You Are, I Love You" in which she milks the old wailing-diva standard for all it's worth. These performers are usually playing characters--it's so much fun to hear them letting loose and pretending to be pop singers. There are those, of course, who actually take Bacharach seriously. They will be offended at the lack of tortured, hoarse-voiced life-stinks crooners here. The CD may be too clean and well, too well-sung, for them to enjoy. But if you want to hear honest to goodness singers getting DOWN, and have a good laugh in the meantime, pick this up.

BROADWAY TREATMENT OF BACHARACH THAT GROWS ON YOU.......1998-10-03

At first listen, I was disappointed. The voices were unfamiliar and cold; the orchestration overly brassy and loose. And yes, it sounded very Broadway so much so that friends of mine who heard the music for the first time commented that they never knew I was into musicals.

However, after quite a few sessions of playing the CD in my car, this compilation of Bacharach songs actually sounded better and better. (Maybe the ambient noise helped disguise the flaws - seriously.) The Broadway vocal quality became addictive and I got hooked. An inspired selection of songs, some lesser known, also helped. Best tracks are One Less Bell, A House is Not a Home, and Window Wishing. Most of the other tracks are pretty decent as well, but not as good as Maureen McGovern's versions in Baby I'm Yours.

And Linda Krakowski (the secretary in Ally McBeal) should stick to acting. Her rendition of The Look of Love was a horrible attempt at Marilyn Monroe vocals. Helen Reddy should also stay retired. Her vocal acrobatics on That's What Friends are For sounded like a bad joke. There is a little something "extra" after the last track.

Lushly mounted Burt without the emotion.......1998-07-16

Though rarely have Bacharach's works received such a lush production, rarer however is the airlessness with which these classics have been performed. A collection of Broadway-trained voices interpret some intruingly obscure Bacharach songs with an alarming lack of feeling and a preponderance of technigue.

Predictably, the songs associated with Dionne Warwick fare the worst under this Velveeta treatent, and one is left to merely enjoy Bacharach's splendid music imagining how they might sound performed by artists with souls. The best cut by far is La Chanze's "Anyone Who Had a Heart", and it's always nice to hear Helen Reddy again.

The best thing about the album is that it introduces some seldom-heard Bacharach and will perhaps send listeners out to find the original recordings for some indication as to how these songs should sound by artists with a deeper understanding of the lyrics and less of a determination to 'sell it'.

Close to You: Sings Burt Bacharach
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Close to You: Sings Burt Bacharach
Yasuko Agawa
Manufacturer: Jvc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005GWZL
Release Date: 1996-06-21

Sings Bacharach, David and Others/Pitney Today
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A strange but nice twofer

Sings Bacharach, David and Others/Pitney Today
Gene Pitney
Manufacturer: Sequel Records
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ASIN: B000000PTX
Release Date: 1997-07-08

Tracks:

Baton Rouge or Frisco
If I Never Get to Love You
True Love Never Runs Smooth
Little Betty Falling Star
24 Hours from Tulsa
There's No Living Without Your Loving
Somewhere in the Country
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Fool Killer
Only Love Can Break a Heart
Donna Means Heartbreak
Looking Through The Eyes Of Love
She's a Heartbreaker
Hate
(1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count the Days
Run, Run, Roadrunner
Small Town, Bring Down
I Can't Make It Without You
Yours Until Tomorrow
Love Grows
Heaven Held
If I Only Had Time
Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
Billy You're My Friend
Don't Mean to be a Preacher
Animal Crackers (In Cellophane Boxes)

Customer Reviews:

A strange but nice twofer.......2003-04-20

The first album of this twofer was titled Gene Pitney sings Burt Bacharach when released in the USA in 1968. It was not released in the UK until 1971, when it was given the title Gene Pitney sings Bacharach, David and others, and had two extra tracks. The British title, which included extra tracks not written by Burt Bacharach, acknowledges that he didn't write all the songs. He didn't write Baton Rouge or Frisco or Somewhere in the country (a UK top twenty hit) either, and they appeared on the original American album.

The title hides the fact that this was actually a compilation, as all the material had been released before on other albums. Many of these tracks first appeared between 1962 and 1965, including such classics as 24 hours from Tulsa and Only love can break your heart.

Good though the Bacharach album is, Gene's fans may be more interested in the second album on this twofer. It was titled She's a heartbreaker in the USA but Pitney today in the UK, and was a somewhat eclectic mixture. Some of the tracks were R+B influenced, notably Run run roadrunner and 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 count the days, while others were more mainstream pop, like Yours until tomorrow (a minor British hit) and Love grows (this is not the Edison Lighthouse hit, but a different British song).

She's a heartbreaker was released as a single in America, where it became his first top twenty hit for three years, but it was only a B-side in Britain. Two bonus tracks, Animal crackers and Billy you're my friend, never appeared on any original album but were released as singles in America, where one just missed the top 100 and the other just made it.

Tracks:

Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
What the World Needs Now Is Love
Alfie
Message to Michael
I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
I Say a Little Prayer
You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
Anyone Who Had a Heart
I'll Never Fall in Love Again
Walk on By
Trains and Boats and Planes
Make It Easy on Yourself
House Is Not a Home
(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
Look of Love
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
Wishin' and Hopin'
Only Love Can Break a Heart
Promises, Promises
Wives and Lovers
Reach out for Me
Windows of the World

Customer Reviews:

This is not the definitive collection.......2003-01-05

I purchased this CD based on the reviews here, and mostly based on the names: Warwick, Bacharach, David. But after listening to the album, I very much doubt that any of the three would endorse it.

The "Import" label was suspicious, and the songs sound like imitations of the originals. There's no doubt that this is Dionne's voice, and Burt and Hal's lyrics and songs, but these are not the renditions that we've fallen in love with. Dionne's voice lacks the familiar soul and mastery of the originals (just where did they get those vocal tracks?), and the musical arrangements lack depth and texture and do not blend well with the vocals.There is distortion and poor balance between vocals and music in this production, making it disturbing to listen to.

This is an album I thought I would want to listen to over and over, but it lacks the musical magic we know of these songs and these artists. Warwick, Bacharach and David will always be five star by my estimation, but this production is a zero.

Very good collection.......2002-09-18

Dionne Warwick is a gifted singer, her long musical relationship with Burt Bacharach and Hal David produced a string of hits for her, all of them except "Don't Make Me Over" are included in this CD, and many are today timeless pop classics.
Their musical relationship had a gap in the 70's and early 80's. In this period Warwick recorded with some other producers or songwriters as Holland-Dozier-Holland, Jerry Ragovoy and notably the album "Heartbreaker" produced by Barry Gibb and others with songs written by The Bee Gees, which stamped her voice in the 80's and gave her a new profile that continues up to now. She joined again with Bacharach as a songwriter and producer, and also with Bararach and David for a new song in the 90's.
This CD also contains some cover versions of Bacharach-David songs which were hits for other artists as "I Just Don't Know What to Do with myself" (Dusty Springfield), "Trains and Boats and Planes" (Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas), "Raindrops Keep Falling in my Head" (B J Thomas) or "Only Love can Break a Heart" (Gene Pitney) to which Dionne Warwick give her personal approach. Very good collection, not 5 stars because the sound quality could be very much better.

Wonderful! You will listen to over and over again.......2002-09-05

I enjoyed this CD to the ultimate. Most of the favorite songs you hear on movies and wish you could have are compiled on this disk. I played it over and over again.
Five stars easily

Why the SAME old Songs on every historical reissure?.......2001-06-06

When OH! When will Ms Warwick and the Powers That Be release the COMPLETE discography of her Scepter recordings (63-73) and/or ALL of her Burt Bachrach? For many of us GI's in Viet-Nam, during the era of Acid Rock, Ms Warwick's artistry (Thanks to the Columbia record Club) was the soul of Sanity. Most of her Bachrach has NEVER been equalled, much less surpassed. I believe that she is the only 60's and 70's major artist, the great bulk of whose greatest work, is currently unavailble on CD, Any Takers?

Best Bacharach interpretation so far.......2000-07-05

Warwick's version of the Bacharach songs are the best. I think somehow because the then fresh musical arrangement and Warwick's unique voice have seldom been copied or imitated. Everybody else have done the songs the tired old way.

Moreover, in my mind, Warwick has not sung (nor chosen) any other song well.

It's a pity this CD does not include "Papier Mache" and "Theme from the Valley of the Dolls"

Just the same, 22 top songs aren't that bad.

Sings Bacharach/David
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Sings Bacharach/David
Gene Pitney
Manufacturer: Sequel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0002B6F60
Release Date: 1997-11-12

What the World Needs Now: Connie Francis Sings Burt Bacharach
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Connie Francis Sings Burt Bacharach CD

Better than ever

AMEN and Thank you Japan

ABOUT TIME

What the World Needs Now: Connie Francis Sings Burt Bacharach
Connie Francis
Manufacturer: Universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009J8DDI
Release Date: 2005-07-17