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  1. www.smoothradio.com › burt-bacharach-best-songsBurt Bacharach songs: The 12 greatest by the prolific ...

    Feb 9, 2023 · Deacon Blue - I'll Never Fall in Love Again. This Bacharach/David song was written for the 1968 musical Promises, Promises, and has been covered by many artists ever since. In 1969, the most popular version was by Burt's protege Dionne Warwick, while Bobbie Gentry's version topped the UK charts. Other famous versions include Johnny Mathis ...

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Burt_BacharachBurt Bacharach - Wikipedia

    Burt Freeman Bacharach (/ ˈbækəræk / BAK-ə-rak; May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] Starting in the 1950s, he composed hundreds of pop songs, many in ...

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  4. www.bbc.co.uk › news › entertainment-arts-64586383Burt Bacharach: 12 of the legendary composer's most magic ...

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  5. www.cbc.ca › news › entertainmentLegendary composer Burt Bacharach, behind hits like I Say a ...

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    Bacharach was an eight-time Grammy winner, a prize-winning Broadway composer for Promises, Promises and a three-time Oscar winner. He received two Academy Awards in 1970, for the score of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and for the song Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (shared with David). In 1982, he and his then-wife, lyricist Carole Bayer Sa...

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    He was born in Kansas City, Mo., but soon moved to New York City. His father was a syndicated columnist, his mother a pianist who encouraged the boy to study music. Although he was more interested in sports, he practiced piano every day after school, not wanting to disappoint his mother. While still a minor, he would sneak into jazz clubs, bearing ...

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    Meanwhile, he had met his ideal songwriter partner — David, as businesslike as Bacharach was mercurial, so domesticated that he would leave each night at 5 to catch the train back to his family on Long Island. Working in a tiny office in Broadway's celebrated Brill Building, they produced their first million-seller, Magic Moments, sung in 1958 by P...

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  6. www.bbc.com › news › entertainment-arts-11573995Burt Bacharach obituary: Classy and complex songs that ... - BBC

    Feb 9, 2023 · Burt Bacharach was one of the last of the great popular songwriters of the 20th Century. Together with Hal David, he created songs that became standards in their own right.

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  7. www.biography.com › musicians › burt-bacharachBurt Bacharach: Biography, Musician, Songwriter

    Apr 2, 2014 · Burt Bacharach was born on May 12, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri, but was raised in New York City by artist/songwriter Irma Freeman and newspaper columnist Bert Bacharach. Initially encouraged by ...

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  9. www.nytimes.com › burt-bacharach-deathBurt Bacharach Wrote Hits for the Ages - The New York Times

    Dec 22, 2023 · Bacharach. Often out of step with his musical times, he composed songs for the ages. By Rob Hoerburger. It could sound like an odd refrain — “I never felt like I fit in anywhere” — coming ...