Burt Bacharach is dead to me

True musical icon even if he wasn't the best interpreter of his own songs

I always liked the film Alfie (1966) and Cher's rendition of the title tune

I’m here for Ms. Warwick’s tweet.

I thought he died a year or so ago?

One less bell to answer....

One less egg to fry...

OH, NO!!!

But... somebody is gonna be happy!

What's his net worth and what are the logistics for the reading of the will?

I guess enough little prayers weren’t enough to save him.

He was quite the lech. He attended a Timi Yuro opening (The Copa or one of those venues) and told her that the only thing that could make the evening better was a fuck.

Dionne Warwick and Barbra Streisand sung his songs the best - true interpreters of his music.

He's looked like death for a few decades -

Do you think he and Marlene ever fucked when they were working together?

I'm thinking yes. Marlene was no fool.

Darn it! His music was so good. He gave us a lot to be happy with. RIP Mr. Bacharach.

[quote]Dionne Warwick and Barbra Streisand sung his songs

Oh, dear.

I've never seen anyone name Streisand as one of the quintessential Bacharach interpreters. Her version of "Alfie" and its parent album did little for her career.

Burt & Babs

Never cared for Streisand' s covers of Bacharach's songs. Dusty was so much better

So young!

Cilla Black

Sylvester!

Evie!

Good riddance. SOB. Cheated on Angie Dickinson fucked underage black girls did nothing to support their autistic daughter who eventually committed suicide. Angie did it all. A real prick.

His own memoir doesn't paint a great picture of him as a person. He should probably never have married, just fuck.

[quote]R5 One less bell to answer....One less egg to fry...

What is the goddamn bell you have to answer for a partner?? Are they an invalid in a nursing home who was constantly ringing for assistance?

If it references a doorbell, well sorry, the doorbell’s still there and you still have to answer it. So there ISN’T one less bell.

I hate this lyric.

Not if you are no longer receiving visitors. And not everyone lives in a house.

What were on his three iPods?

He may have been a prick but he was a great songwriter.

He claimed that he always heard music to the point that he couldn't sleep.

Ronald Isley & Burt

Ron is too sharp to effectively sing Bacharach.

I *know* very well that Elvis Costello can't really sing, but that record the 2 of them made together has some really haunting stuff in it, IMO.

Dionne's Alfie is perfection.

Burt co-wrote this song with Hal David.

It was recorded by Herb Alpert in 1968.

I’m glad his music will live on as it was part of my life like for many here.

Mein Führer:

Catch up.

"One less egg to fry"

I would have thought "Great! I now get to have TWO eggs instead of one!"

He and Angie Dickinson made such a great looking couple back in the day.

As a young gayling I thought Burt was the epitome of BDF.

Weak jawline.

He’s no Beyoncé.

He was a genius.

Well, then, the Datalounge search engine phenomenonally SUCKS. I did a search with his name in quotes. I take no responsibility.

Hahaga

Hahaha

I think you had it right the first time, R41.

R40 You are not OP.

I started this thread.

I am not WHAT, R44/OP? Guess what, aunty--your thread never showed up.

I meant hunty but aunty will do.

R45 Babe, I don't know what you're talking about.

But I'm the OP of this thread.

Decades before my time but I’ve obviously heard of him and his music.

Sadly, I’m discovering his sexiness the day his death was announced.

Burt and Angie Dickinson were such a glamorous couple in the 60s and 70s. Burt was the love of Angie Dickinson's life. I don't think she ever got over their divorce. In their photos, together, Angie glowed....she was likely never happier.

You said I "was not," OP. I said I was not what? I assume you meant I was not OP. I never claimed to be. I said nothing came up so I posted it.

For R47.

I'm sad, but he did live to a great old age.

[Quote] Burt was the love of Angie Dickinson's life. I don't think she ever got over their divorce. In their photos, together, Angie glowed....she was likely never happier.

Hardly. Nikki was the love of Angie's life.

Did he ever hang in Monaco with Ringo?

Shad.

Loved Bacharach. RIP

I think Dusty Springfield did a wonderful job with his songs. Too bad she didn't record more of them.

WHAT?

[quote]At the time of his death, Burt Bacharach's net worth was estimated to be between $150 million and $160 million.

I demand an audit. How is this possible given ALL the songs that he has written and ALL of the numerous and various recordings of them?

His only child was his daughter who had cerebral palsy and died years ago. I guess his widow - is Carole Bayer Sager still alive? - will inherit everything.

Bieber’s catalogue was worth more? 🤯

He was married to someone after Sager, who was divorced from Burt, R59.

Just checked and Dionne remains radio silent. When his partnership with Hal David dissolved no one thought to tell her. She was pissed and I don't know if they had spoken since.

He also had other children, R59.

I've seen pictures of them together since their falling out, R62, so I assume they buried the hatchet.

Dionne's last Tweet (she's active on Twitter) was on 02/07/23, talking about herself and Dolly Parton on a morning show.

UH...WE KNEW

Ugh, he was a prick because he slept around? Had affairs? What kind of gay man would find moral failing with this? Clearly it’s the frauen on this website saying this shit. Deuxmoi refugees and their pearl clutching. RIP, thank you for the music.

Dam bro, the tune master has ceased to be. He could write the catchiest of the catchiest tunes.

Has Richard Carpenter commented yet? On the day that you were born…..

Impressed by some of the accounts on this thread. I’m starting to admire him even more beyond the music, based on his behavior, he might’ve been wielding some size meet. He seemed to be proud of himself and enjoyed fucking. Nothing wrong with that. It appears that he was a tall dominant male.

^Size meat

Damn, he looked good here.

Wonder if Herb Alpert will comment.

Hal David has been silent.

Mrs. Grubman did it best.

Awww, that’s a shame. Poor Ernie must be devastated.

I have to admit though I didn’t know he even had a last name.

Herb Alpert *sigh*

I’m surprised Corpse hasn’t officially made some sort of public gesture about this.

The very definition of an earworm: "Theme from Casino Royale" performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

I loved Bobbie Gentry’s interpretations of his songs.

Stop waiting for a tweet from Ms. Warwick.

[R59], his daughter Nikki did not have cerebral palsy. She had severe Asperger’s, and when a shrink asked her how she was going to take care of herself after her mother eventually died (Angie was VERY PROTECTIVE of her daughter… Burt not so much) she became fixated on Angie’s death (as people with Asperger’s do… another preoccupation of Nikki’s was earthquakes; she was in Tahiti during the 1994 Northridge quake and was FURIOUS to have missed it,) and her fear of being left without Angie there eventually drove her to suicide. When I knew her she was a drummer for an all-female band, dressed in men’s clothing and had a crew cut. And had terrible eyesight, as she was born extremely prematurely.

For this site, Dave Koz is the best interpretation of "This Guy's In Love With You"

[Quote] I've never seen anyone name Streisand as one of the quintessential Bacharach interpreters. Her version of "Alfie" and its parent album did little for her career.

and did even less for those Bacharach tunes

I don't think he ever loved me..

R85 At least you can still talk your way into booked-up hotels in Hollywood!

Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick 2h

Burt’s transition is like losing a family member. These words I’ve been asked to write are being written with sadness over the loss of my Dear Friend and my Musical Partner. On the lighter side we laughed a lot and had our run ins, but

Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick 2h Replying to @dionnewarwick

always found a way to let each other know our family, like roots, were the most important part of our relationship. My heartfelt condolences go out to his family, letting them know he is now peacefully resting and I too will miss him.

[quote]r35 "One less egg to fry" - I would have thought "Great! I now get to have TWO eggs instead of one!" And TWO pieces of toast too!

Fat whore.

I prefer Kristin Vigard's version of God give Me Strength.

[quote]R87 Dionne Warwick: Burt’s transition is like losing a family member. These words I’ve been asked to write…

You wouldn’t have commented otherwise, Dionne?

I prefer Elvis's version, because he's a man, baby. It's got a LOT more soul, too. (Altho I do like that movie a lot). -R30

Maybe it's nothing but I wonder if there is anything to Warwick issuing tweets just a few hours ago rather than much earlier in the day?

It's a shame Vigard's version got buried to promote Costello's.

He was kinda hot.

Say what, R93? The movie sank like a stone. Vigard's version is weak and flabby, and Costello co-wrote the song. Huh?

R95, you usually put the version of the song in the movie (or a close approximation) on the soundtrack you try to sell.

Exactly, r96.

I would have liked to hear Illeana give it her ALL.

The daughter, Lea Nikki Bacharach (1966 - 2007)

Would anyone know if (or, if not) he was embarrassed of his first child because of her challenges?

That’s ridiculous.

Faith No More did an excellent cover here.

Oh and I've always had a crush on Mike Patton, lol.

R102, I wanted to like that. Sorry, I don't think that's a good rendition of This Guy.

I’m a fan of the music but not the man. I read his memoir years ago and he came across as a sadistic son of a bitch boasting about all night recording sessions and the singers in tears from exhaustion until he got the take he wanted. He also was very cavalier about the women in his life and his song writing partners.

As a huge fan since age 14 of Herb Alpert and the TJB from "The Lonely Bull" on, I thought "TGILWY" to be the most insipid song, the veritable death knell of my Alpert love.

Dionne's "Walk on By" is the perfect melding of Creator and Interpreter.

Released in 1964 two months after the Beatles were on "The Ed Sullivan Show," Boomers can still remember every single note.

"Walk on by-y-y, ...."

[quote]Burt’s transition is like losing a family member.

Was he wearing a dress when he died?

Why was his daughter with Angie such a tard?

Couldn't Angie put down the booze and smokes during pregnancy?

It's a shame he never had more children to potentially pass along his talent.

^^ I believe he had four children in total.

I do have a morbid curiosity about what caused their child to be born mentally challenged. I know she was born 3 months early.

R108 She was a preemie with autism, born in a generation where no one knew what that was or how to treat it.

Don't be such a cunt.

R106 here, "Oh, Dear"-ing myself for writing a dangling participle!

Revised: "The song's being released...."

He sounds kind of detached, even cold, discussing his daughter’s suicide.

[quote] Nikki was one pound, 10 ounces at birth. You should know the deck is stacked against you then,” Bacharach said.

[quote] According to Bacharach, she grew up with emotional issues, which he later found out was an undiagnosed case of Asperger’s syndrome (the autism-spectrum disorder is a relatively new diagnosis).

[quote] “Nobody said she’s got Asperger’s or she’s got autism. (They said) she’s just got behavior things,” he said. But after suffering for so long, he never imagined she would actually kill herself.

[quote] “It’s like the boy who cried wolf. Somebody who says, ‘I can’t stand it. The helicopters are making too much noise and the gardeners and the blowers are making too much noise and if they don’t stop I’m going to kill myself. And you hear that enough and you know it’s never gonna happen and then one day she just goes and kills herself.”

[quote] “When she did kill herself she did it alone, Textbook 101. Bag over her head. Alone. Kind of brave I guess for somebody who was scared of so many things. And she left a note to me.”

Has anyone checked in on MISS ANGIE DICKINSON??

If Burt wasn't so talented he would have spent his twilight years parking cars and pumping gas.

RIP to a great artist who gave so much pleasure to so many.

Sad news. He wrote a boatload of songs. My favorite of his music isn't one that you readily hear mentioned: "Anyone Who Had a Heart." I vividly remember the 70s commercials Burt and Angie Dickinson made for "Martini & Rossi." They were a hip 70s couple.

Is this the original version ?

Wow.

[quote] Nikki was born three months prematurely weighing one pound, ten ounces and was not expected to live. It took many years, including a decade when Burt insisted she live at the Wilson Center, a clinic in Minnesota, before Nikki was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. She and Angie became increasingly close. “Theirs was a symbiotic relationship. For example, Nikki would take the pet mice Angie had bought her and kill them by throwing them against the wall. Then Angie would go out and buy some more.”

[quote] Nikki never forgave her father for her enforced incarceration, something that became clear in her final note. He’s never read it but wife Jane has so he’s aware of Nikki’s feelings. She had frequently threatened suicide, to a point where her parents weren’t taking them seriously. Then, on January 4, 2007, she put a bag over her head and inserted a tube that fed nitrous oxide into it. She was 40.

Presenting R117 with no judgment.

I can't imagine doing better with that kind of kid in the '70s, when there weren't diagnoses or resources to help.

His late-in-life son is cute and owns a Doodle but appears to be straight.

Thankfully, Burt's ancient sperm only inflicted him with a gummy smile and a tendency for bad hair coloring.

[Quote] Is this the original version ?

Not exactly. Jerry Butler recorded it first, though his version only ended up as an album track.

It's funny how Dionne rags on those women but she doesn't shit talk Burt the same for giving songs to others. It was Burt who gave "Make It Easy on Yourself" to Jerry Butler, and Jerry was even given Dionne's performance as a demo. It was also Burt who gave "Wishin' and Hopin'" to Dusty Springfield in October 1963. He sensibly saw that as Scepter Records made it a b-side for Dionne Warwick, that it should have its chance as an A-Side for someone else. It could well have been Dusty's debut single. As it turned out, Dusty kept it as an album track until Philips U.S. decided to make it a single in summer '64, pretty much a year after Dionne released her version.

She killed her pets and had serious emotional/behavioral issues, R117. Sounds exactly like someone who woukd be institutionalized in the days before autism diagnoses.

Nikki was born three months premature? In 1966?

Angie essentially had a third-trimester miscarriage of a fetus that was not viable. As life later proved, sorry to say.

I feel bad for her—she always seemed like a classy lady. She should have tried for more children, if she wanted them.

How do you know she didn't?

[quote]She should have tried for more children, if she wanted them.

That comes across as rather flippant to me. Are you considering the many difficulties that women face regarding getting pregnant and delivery? Especially during that time. Medical advances were far from what they are today. As for adoption, there's a lot of stuff all rolled into that too.

"TGILWY" was used as the intro and background music in the third episode of MURDER IN PROVENCE (the episode with John Light).

It was an excellent rendition of the song.

R126, You had me at Roger Allam, but adding John Light?! BBL! 😘

I hope at the memorial service Dionne does not " Walk on by " the open casket

I’ve actually preferred the instrumental versions. Hal David’s lyrics can be kinda schmaltzy. Here is the combination of 3 20th century masters: Bacharach, arranged by long time Boston pops arranger Richard Hayman, conducted by Arthur Fiedler.

R129 - The the instrumental version used (opening and closing credits) in S1E3 of "Murder in Provence" is very good.

Many of his melodies are divine but lyrics to his songs are not.

I love an obscure little song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David called As Long As There's An Apple Tree - it's a quaint song with a spiritual touch to it. It's on the B Side of Odds And Ends, both sung of course by Dionne Warwick. Give it a listen.

On his show Larry King asked Angie who the love of her life has been. Angie replied Frank Sinatra.

Oh, please. Hal David wrote some very fine lyrics. It's not a coincidence that they were at their most successful together.